What are the Common Core Standards?

1. Common Core Standards for Social StudiesKindergarten – Grade 5Incorporating Social Studies Content through LiteracyGreece Central School District - Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment

2. What are the Common Core Standards? • The goal of the CCSS is the prepare students to be college and career ready. • These standards are research based, align with college and career expectations, are rigorous, and meet international standards. • There are four major strands that span K-12 education: • Reading • Writing • Speaking and Listening • Language Development

3. A Focus on Humanities • In social studies classrooms, the essence of the Common Core State Standards is a focus in humanities – connecting social studies skills and content with English/Language Arts curriculum. • For our social studies lessons, units and classrooms, the reading and writing strands are central to instruction and student learning. • Information contained here will focus on the standards for reading and writing, in grades K-5 for social studies.

4. Literacy in Social Studies - Reading • There are four standards for the Common Core Reading strand: • Key Ideas and Details:Read the text closely to make inferences, determine themes, describe characters, and how ideas develop in a text. • Craft and Structure: Analyze the structure of texts, paragraphs and sentences; assess point of view. • Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Integrate and evaluate content visually and quantitatively; evaluate claims in a text; compare how different texts address similar themes. • Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: A progression of complexity in text and theme in order to build independence and proficiency.

5. CCSS: Reading in Kindergarten • Key Ideas: • Students identify characters and events in text with teacher prompting and support. • Craft and Structure: • Understand what authors do. • Recognize different types of text (stories vs. poems) • Integration of Knowledge: • Compare experiences of different characters in the same text. • Range of Complexity: • Group reading activities; read aloud.

6. CCSS: Reading in Grade 1 • Key Ideas: • Students answer questions about details, events and describe the setting in a text. • Craft and Structure: • Identification of “senses” words or phrases (hear, smell, see, etc.) • Can begin to answer: Who is the storyteller? • Integration of Knowledge: • Use of illustrations and visuals to describe a story. • Range of Complexity: • Group reading activities and introduction of poetry.

7. CCSS: Reading in Grade 2 • Key Ideas: • Students answer questions about the who, what, when, where and why of a text. • Students can identify the message or moral of a story. • Craft and Structure: • Ability to describe the structure of a story (intro, climax, conclusion). • Modeling of different voices for different characters when reading aloud to illustrate point of view. • Integration of Knowledge: • Compare two or more versions of the same story. • Range of Complexity: • Read and comprehend literature, including poetry at the grade 2-3 band complexity.

8. CCSS: Reading in Grade 3 • Key Ideas: • Refer directly to the text when answering questions. • Determine central messages in cultural reads. • Craft and Structure: • Understand chapter, scene, stanza, etc. • Distinguish narrative point of view from others in a text. • Integration of Knowledge: • Compare and contrast stories or poems by the same author. • Range of Complexity: • Same as grade level 2, selecting appropriately leveled texts.

9. CCSS: Reading in Grade 4 • Key Ideas: • Draw inferences from text. • Determine theme. • Craft and Structure: • Students can explain the differences in structure for poems, drama, and prose. • Integration of Knowledge: • Connection text of a story to a visual of the same story. • Contrast similar themes and topics from different cultures. • Range of Complexity: • Read and comprehend text from the grade 4-5 band complexity.

10. CCSS: Reading in Grade 5 • Key Ideas: • Accurately quote from text in answers. • Summarize a text, poem, story, etc. • Craft and Structure: • Students can begin to identify figurative language, including similes and metaphors. • Explain how characters, stanzas, or chapters “fit together.” • Integration of Knowledge: • Compare stories in the same genre. • Range of Complexity: • Read and comprehend text from the grade 4-5 band complexity.

11. Literacy in Social Studies - Writing • There are four standards for the Common Core Writing strand: • Text Types and Purposes: Student develop skills to write arguments, informative texts, and narratives. • Production and Distribution of Writing: Production of writing pieces, including revision, editing and publication and the use of technology. • Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Students conduct both short-term and long-term research, gather information, and draw evidence from texts. • Range of Writing: Students learn to write for different audiences, purposes and tasks.

12. CCSS: Writing in Kindergarten • Text Types and Purposes: • Combination of drawing and writing to state opinions (Ex. My favorite book is…) • Production and Distribution of Writing: • Respond to teacher led questioning. • Research to Build and Present Knowledge: • Shared research and writing. For example, creating an opinion about a favorite book or author. • Range of Writing: • Begins in grade 4.

13. CCSS: Writing in Grade 1 • Text Types and Purposes: • Students write opinion pieces about a text or author, with reasons for the opinion. • Production and Distribution of Writing: • Ability to write narratives about events. • Research to Build and Present Knowledge: • Create “How To…” books for others, including friends and parents. • Range of Writing: • Begins in grade 4.

14. CCSS: Writing in Grade 2 • Text Types and Purposes: • Use of linkage words in writing (because, also, and). • Production and Distribution of Writing: • Written narratives with action, thought and feelings. • Students begin to revise and edit during the writing process. • Research to Build and Present Knowledge: • Produce a report or create a story using multiple books. • Record observations in sequence. Create a written timeline. • Range of Writing: • Begins in grade 4.

15. CCSS: Writing in Grade 3 • Text Types and Purposes: • Students develop and write opinions with point of view. • Informational or Explanatory writing. Create a set of directions. • Narratives of real or imagined events. • Production and Distribution of Writing: • Students plan, write, revise and edit a piece, including use of technology. • Research to Build and Present Knowledge: • Note taking skills. Student learn to take notes from a text. • Range of Writing: • Practice both extended and short-term writing time frames.

16. CCSS: Writing in Grade 4 • Text Types and Purposes: • Students develop and write opinions with point of view, using examples from a text. • Writing incorporates domain specific language and vocabulary. • Production and Distribution of Writing: • Students use technology, including the internet, to write and publish work. • Research to Build and Present Knowledge: • Students investigate topics through text (how an author uses evidence…) • Range of Writing: • Practice both extended and short-term writing time frames. • Students begin to learn to write to difference audiences.

17. CCSS: Writing in Grade 5 • Text Types and Purposes: • The writing process expands to connect ideas, themes, setting and characters using phrases such as “consequently, in addition, etc.” • Students write using dialogue. • Production and Distribution of Writing: • Students publish writing through interaction with text, technology and peers. • Research to Build and Present Knowledge: • Students complete research using two or more texts. For example, students compare characters or setting from two different texts. • Range of Writing: • Practice both extended and short-term writing time frames. • Students begin to learn to write to difference audiences.

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19. Resources for the Common Core State Standards • http://www.corestandards.org – Common Core State Standards Initiative Website. • Common Core State Standards for ELA and Literacy - A Video Overview