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Topics. Brief Look at Common C ore New Look for Reading-tutors.com New Phonics and Comprehension Packets eBooks via tablets Future Game P ackets. Bringing Common Core Standards to Life in the Classroom. http://www.corestandards.org. Significant Shifts in CCSS ELA Standards.

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  1. Topics Brief Look at Common Core New Look for Reading-tutors.com New Phonics and Comprehension Packets eBooks via tablets Future Game Packets

  2. Bringing Common Core Standards to Life in the Classroom http://www.corestandards.org

  3. Significant Shifts in CCSS ELA Standards Focus on • Informational text in K-5 • Increased text complexity • Text-dependent questions • Academic Vocabulary • Writing: arguments and persuasion

  4. Informational Text

  5. Literature (RL) vs. Informational Text (RI)

  6. Why use informational text? • By sixth grade, 80% of school reading tasks are expository • 80% of adult/workplace reading is informational • Standardized tests are 85% expository • Can motivate reading

  7. Academic Vocabulary

  8. Academic Vocabulary: Definition They are not the domain specific words of math, science and social studies such quotient, rhombus, proton, metamorphosis, legislate, and congressional. They are the more general cross-curricular terms of greater utility such as estimate, observe, demonstrate, classify, compare, transform, and distribute.

  9. Research Background Differences in children’s vocabularies develop even before school begins and are key to inequality or education attainment. Hart & Risley, 1995

  10. Importance of Vocabulary • If you ask a student what makes reading difficult they will blame it on the words and their meaning. • The National Research Council (1998) and the National Reading Panel (2000) concluded that vocabulary development is a fundamental goal for students in the early grades. • Importance of vocabulary knowledge to school success, in general, and reading comprehension, in particular, is widely documented. Becker, 1977; Anderson & Nagy, 1991 However, very little instructional time is devoted to vocabulary development in the primary grades. Biemiller, 2001

  11. Putting Words into Tiers Adapted from Bringing words to life: Robust vocabulary instruction. Beck, et al. (2002)

  12. Text-Dependent Questions

  13. Text-Dependent Questions… • are worth asking. • can only be answered correctly by close reading of text. • require an understanding that extends beyond recalling facts. • often require students to infer. • do not depend on background knowledge. • allow students to gather evidence. • allow for access to increasing levels of complexity. • require teacher preparation.

  14. Gettysburg Address Not Text Dependent • Why did the North fight the Civil War? • Have you ever been to a funeral or gravesite? • How do you think the loved ones of the dead soldiers felt about Lincoln’s speech? Text Dependent • What was the purpose of Lincoln’s speech. Cite at least two statements from his speech to support your conclusion.

  15. Text Complexity

  16. Overview of Text Complexity • Text complexity is defined by: Quantitative measures– readability and other scores of text complexity often best measured by computer software. Qualitative measures– levels of meaning, structure, language conventionality and clarity, and knowledge demands often best measured by an attentive human reader. Qualitative Quantitative Reader and Task Reader and Task considerations– background knowledge of reader, motivation, interests, and complexity generated by tasks assigned often best made by educators employing their professional judgment. 16

  17. How Should Instruction Change? • Use more informational text. • Integrate thematic units • Tiered texts • Text dependent questions • Pre-teach academic vocabulary • More attention to text organization. • Go beyond only teaching text features

  18. Game Packets

  19. Plan 8 packs per grade grouping • K-1 • 2-3 • 4-5 Multiple formats Grade appropriate content

  20. Example: Grade K-1 Formats • Bingo • Concentration • Card sort • Word Ladders • Go Fish • Game board Topics • Alphabet • Sight words • Punctuation • Compound words • Synonyms and antonyms • Cause and effect • Parts of speech • Plurals • Vocabulary

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