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EDUCATION QUOTES

TEACHING TO THE CORE: STANDARDS-BASED ELA LESSONS NEW YORK STATE ENGLISH COUNCIL THE DESMOND HOTEL ALBANY, NY OCTOBER 21st, 2011 DR. VICKY GIOUROUKAKIS DR. MAUREEN CONNOLLY MOLLOY COLLEGE MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL vgiouroukakis@molloy.edu mconnolly@mineola.k12.ny.us. EDUCATION QUOTES. Agenda.

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EDUCATION QUOTES

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  1. TEACHING TO THE CORE: STANDARDS-BASED ELA LESSONS NEW YORK STATE ENGLISH COUNCILTHE DESMOND HOTELALBANY, NYOCTOBER 21st, 2011DR. VICKY GIOUROUKAKIS DR. MAUREEN CONNOLLYMOLLOY COLLEGE MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOLvgiouroukakis@molloy.edu mconnolly@mineola.k12.ny.us

  2. EDUCATION QUOTES

  3. Agenda • Overview • Share CCSS-based ELA lessons • Help you design your own standards-based curriculum • Surprise!

  4. Teacher Reflection • What do you know about the Common Core State Standards?

  5. Highlights of the CCSS for ELA • Close reading • Informational texts • Literacy across the content areas • Text complexity • Argument writing • Grammar and conventions • Technology • Research

  6. 10 Activities Supported by the CCSS • complete close readings of texts • answer text-dependent questions • read grade-appropriate complex texts (see Appendix B) • read informational texts (as well as literary texts) • write different genres (argument, explanatory, narrative) and conduct research • make interdisciplinary connections • use varied thinking skills • share ideas • use technology and media • build vocabulary (academic; discipline-specific) and grammar and use them in context

  7. Common Core State Standards: High School Video Clip (teachingchannel.org) • http://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/common-core-state-standards-high-school?utm_source=Alpha+List&utm_campaign=f5ec1f7b1b-Newsletter_Oct15_2011&utm_medium=email

  8. Getting to the Core of English Language Arts, Grades 6-12: How to Meet the Standards with Lessons from the Field (Giouroukakis & Connolly, 2012; Corwin Press) Reading • Journey of the Sparrows Graphic Novel Retelling (Grades 6-8; Convey Experience) • Macbeth Soliloquy (Grades 9-10; Explain/Inform) • Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” (Grades 11-12; Argue/Persuade) Writing • Argument Rotation (Grades 6-8; Argue/Persuade) • Cyberbullying Letters (Grades 9-10; Explain/Inform) • This American Life (Grades 11-12; Convey Experience)

  9. Getting to the Core of English Language Arts, Grades 6-12: How to Meet the Standards with Lessons from the Field (Giouroukakis & Connolly, 2012; Corwin Press) Speaking and Listening • Life in a Bag (Grades 6-8; Convey Experience) • Editorial Videos (Grades 9-10; Argue/Persuade) • Show and Tell (Grades 11-12; Explain/Inform) Language • Literary Devices Booklet (Grades 6-8; Explain/Inform) • Of Mice and Men Visualization Exercise (Grades 9-10; Convey Experience) • Speech Analysis (Grades 11-12; Argue/Persuade)

  10. Example • Argument Rotation

  11. Application • Now, Design Your Own Lesson Using the CCSS for ELA!

  12. THANK YOU!DR. VICKY GIOUROUKAKIS DR. MAUREEN CONNOLLYMOLLOY COLLEGE MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOLvgiouroukakis@molloy.edu mconnolly@mineola.k12.ny.us

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