Core Knowledge Language Arts

1. Core Knowledge Language Arts Supporting a Comprehensive Approach to Literacy Instruction

2. Whether I Hear It or Read It, I Know It Building Background Knowledge and Vocabulary in all Children with Listening and Learning

3. Message from Research • Networks of words makes it easier to process what you hear or read. • The power of vocabulary is not in familiarity with the individual word itself, as it is in the web of connections you build towards that word.

4. Building Knowledge and Language Understanding Shared Interactive Reading in Core Knowledge Language Arts–New York

5. Building Knowledge and Language

6. Domains for Reading

7. Stories in a Domain

8. Building Webs of Words in Domains

9. Paragraph 2

10. Building Webs of Words in Domains

11. Paragraph 3

12. Activity: Add to the Web • As a table examine the next story in the Anthology, Royal Family: • Have one person read it aloud. • Write down words you hear that would be added to the web. • After reading a paragraph, look at the list and ‘work into’ the web… build connections among words that relate, that are synonyms or antonyms, that are exemplars, or categories, to words in the web. • Note words that are repeated or given a new nuance.

13. Build Across Domains

14. Debrief • How would the idea of a domain and the approach to vocabulary highlighted in these materials support a child’s discussion in the classroom? • What are the critical elements of the materials?

15. Overview of a Lesson Listening and Learning in Action

16. Listening and Learning Lessons • The Read-Aloud (35–40 minutes) • Introducing the Read-Aloud (10 min) • Presenting the Read-Aloud (10–15 min) • Discussing the Read-Aloud (15 min) • Comprehension Questions (10 min) • Word Work (5 min) • Extension Activities (15–20 min) These can be conducted later during the same day

17. Listening and Learning Lessons Content Objectives ELA Objectives

18. Listening and Learning Lessons Core Vocabulary

19. Listening and Learning Lessons Lesson Component Pacing

20. Listening and Learning Lessons Review of Prior Knowledge Making Predictions Purpose for Listening

21. Introducing a Read-Aloud • Know-Wonder-Learn Chart • What Do We Know? • What Have We Already Learned? • Where are We? • Essential Background Information or Terms • Brainstorming Links • Making Predictions About the Read-Aloud • Personal Connections

22. Listening and Learning Lessons Story Text Image to Display Guided Listening Support

23. Listening and Learning Lessons Comprehension Questions