Introduction to the ELA/Literacy Common Core Standards

1. Introduction to the ELA/Literacy Common Core Standards February 4, 2012

2. Agenda • Background of the Common Core Standards (CCS) • Components of the CCS • Trace the Progression • What the Standards Do NOT Cover • Instructional Shifts • What our Future Teachers Need to Know

4. Highly Effective School Leaders Teacher Evaluation Statewide Standards-based Curriculum Assessment Data Highly Effective Teachers College and Career Ready Students Animating the Reform AgendaInvesting in human capital, supporting with critical tools • Adopting internationally-benchmarked standards and assessments that prepare students for success in college and the workplace • Building instructional data systems that measure student success and inform teachers and principals how they can improve their practice • Recruiting, developing, retaining, and rewarding effective teachers and principals • Turning around the lowest-achieving schools

5. What are the Common Core Standards? • Collaboration: State-led • Coordinated by National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers • Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers • Preparation: Prepare students to be college- and career-ready • Equity: Expectations consistent – not dependent on zip code • Clarity: Focused, coherent, clear; help students, parents and teachers understand what is expected • Competition: Internationally benchmarked - global competition • Ireland, Finland, New Zealand, Australia (by state), Canada (by province), Singapore, the United Kingdom …

6. CCS Adoption

7. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers PARCC • alliance of states working together to develop a common set of K-12 assessments aligned to the CCS in ELA and mathematics Provide • model content frameworks • model instructional units • sample item and task prototypes 2014-15 • computer-based interim and summative assessments

8. Components of the Common Core Standards

9. Components of the Common Core Standards (CCS) Introduction • Description of capacities of a literate student Three main sections • K−5 cross-disciplinary literacy (PK) • 6−12 English language arts • 6−12 literacy in history/ss, science, technical subjects Three appendices • A: Research and evidence; glossary of key terms • B: Reading text exemplars; sample performance tasks • C: Annotated student writing samples

10. CCR Anchor Standards Grade Specific Standards

11. CCR Anchor Standards Grade Specific Standards

12. 6 – 12 SS, Science, and Technicals Strand: Reading (1) Social Studies (2) Science, Technicals Strand:Writing CCR Anchor Standards Grade Specific Standards

13. Reading Strand Three sub-sections: Reading Literature Reading Information Foundational Skills (K-5 only)

14. Writing Strand Production and Distribution Three genres • Argument • Informational/ Explanatory • Narrative

15. Speaking and Listening • Collaborate • Evaluate information in diverse media formats • Present using diverse media formats • Use appropriate speech

16. Language Strand • Vocabulary • Conventions • Functions of language in different contexts

17. CCR Anchor Standards Grade Specific Standards

18. COLLEGE and CAREER READINESS (CCR)

19. College and Career Readiness (CCR) • The Common Core Standards are premised on the idea that students need to be better prepared for college and the workplace • Each strand is composed of CCR anchor standards • The CCR standards tell the story of what students should be able to do by the time they are ready to graduate

20. Topics Standards within a strand are divided into topics Ex: Writing Strand Topics • Text types and Purposes • Production and Distribution of Writing • Research to Build and Present Knowledge • Range of Writing

21. COLLEGE and CAREER READINESS (CCR)

22. COLLEGE and CAREER READINESS (CCR)

23. Components of the Common Core Standards (CCS) Introduction • Description of capacities of a literate student Three main sections • K−5 cross-disciplinary literacy (PK - NYS addition) • 6−12 English language arts • 6−12 literacy in history/ss, science, technical subjects Three appendices • A: Research and evidence; glossary of key terms • B: Reading text exemplars; sample performance tasks • C: Annotated student writing samples

24. Appendix A • Text complexity and annotated samples • Supplement to Reading Foundational Skills – • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences • General progression of phonological awareness skills • Orthography • Writing - three text types • Speaking and listening overview • Language strand overview: conventions and vocabulary • Glossary of key terms • Bibliography

25. Bibliography: Some Familiar Names

26. Appendix B • R.CCR.10 deals with range and complexity • Appendix B contains • text exemplars illustrating the complexity, quality, and range of reading appropriate for various grade levels • sample performance tasks

27. Appendix C …includes annotated samples demonstrating adequate performance in student writing at various grade levels

28. Trace the progression of a standard PK-12

29. WRITING ANCHOR STANDARD W.CCR.1: • Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

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35. What is NOT Covered in the Common Core Learning Standards

36. What Is Not Covered • What instructional methods to use • Everything that can be taught • The nature of advanced work • How to intervene • The full range of supports for ELLs/SWDs • What is necessary beyond academics to be college and career ready

37. Six Instructional Shifts for ELA/Literacy

38. The 6 Instructional Shifts in Literacy/ELA • Balancing Informational / Literary Text • Building Knowledge in the Disciplines • Staircase of Complexity • Text-based Answers • Writing from Sources • Academic Vocabulary

39. Balancing Informational / Literary Text

40. Building Knowledge in the Disciplines • Reading across within the curriculum (6-12) • supplement, not supplant, current content standards in ss, science, technicals • domain text helps students read to learn • increase literacy experiences in non-ELA classrooms (writing, vocabulary, comprehension)

41. Staircase of Complexity R.CCR.10 Over time, text has become less complex; need to increase complexity • Use pyramid to select grade appropriate text • Read fewer selections; create time for deep discussions • Provide scaffolding, supports for students reading below level • Encourage students to extend above grade level Grade 8 Grade 7 Former Lexile 860 -1010 Stretch Lexile 955 -1155 Grade 6 Choose appropriate text within grade band; continually increase text complexity

42. Three-Part Model to Measure Text Complexity Qualitative - levels of meaning, purpose; structure; language conventionality and clarity; and knowledge demands Quantitative - word length or frequency, sentence length, text cohesion Reader and task considerations - variables specific to particular readers (motivation, knowledge, and experiences) and tasks (purpose, complexity of assigned task, questions posed)

43. Text-Based Answers • Prioritize key parts of text • Create text-based questions • Conduct close readings with students • Require students to provide evidence to support claims, conclusions • Goal: teachers ask 80% text-based questions (oral, written)

44. Writing From Sources

45. Academic Vocabulary • Tier I vocabulary is usually very basic, monosyllabic, of Anglo-Saxon origin • Tier III vocabulary is domain-specific (unique to a subject area), often of Greek origin • Tier II vocabulary crosses domains, is practical/common, often Latinate

46. What Our Future Teachers Must Know about the Common Core Standards

47. Current Teachers Are Being Asked to … • spend more time on fewer texts, concepts and go more deeply into meaning; • as a team, select a common text, design evidence based conversations about text; • implement at least one unit of instruction this semester which embeds shifts.

48. What Our Future Teachers Must Know • The importance of understanding the CCS, even when a basal program or textbook may already provide an alignment • How to plan with the CCRs and grade specific standards

49. What Our Future Teachers Must Know How to Cite the Common Core Standards Anchors • Strand.CCR.standard • SL.CCR.2 Grade-specific standards • Strand.grade.standard • RL.9-10.5

50. What Our Future Teachers Must Know • Key terms: • Appendices • Strands • Topics • CCR Anchor Standards • Grade-specific Standards