Common Core Overview

1. English Language Arts Content Area Specialists Common Core Overview Content contained is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

2. Common Core English Language Arts Standards K-12 • Prepares students for college and careers • Research and evidence based • Aligned with college and work expectations • Rigorous • Internationally benchmarked • Structured around the four strands; reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language grades K-12 • Provides content area literacy 6-12 National Governors Association/Chief State School Officers (2010)

3. Why Change? For the students of course!

4. College and Career Ready Students • Establish independence • Acquire a strong content knowledge base • Adapt communication to audience, task, purpose or discipline • Comprehend, critique and question • Cite and evaluate evidence • Use technology and digital media thoughtfully • Understand other perspectives and cultures National Governors Association/Chief State School Officers (2010)

5. What is Not Covered by the Standards? • How teachers should implement • All that can be taught • Advanced work • Interventions or materials needed for students below grade level • Defined support for English language learners and students with special needs National Governors Association/Chief State School Officers (2010)

6. Common Core Require a Shift from….to High School Completion College and Career Readiness for All 6 School level leaders will need to play a central role in implementing the new standards and in cultivating this mindset shift.

7. Average is Over "There will always be change — new jobs, new products, new services. But the one thing we know for sure is that with each advance in globalization and the I.T. revolution, the best jobs will require workers to have more and better education to make themselves above average." Thomas L. FriedmanNew York Times, January 24, 2012

8. Technological Changes Do you remember when? Applications were sent to colleges. Linked-In was a jail. Skype was a typo. Twitter was a sound. 4G was a parking spot. Tom Friedman. Meet the Press. September 4, 2011.

9. Benefits of Common Core State Standards 9 9

10. College and Career Readiness (CCR) Standards • (32 Anchor Standards) • Overarching standards for each of four strands that are further defined by grade-specific standard. • Reading– 10 standards • Writing– 10 standards • Speaking and Listening – 6standards • Language– 6 standards

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12. Nine Specific Advances in the PARCC ELA/Literacy Assessment Demanded by the Three Core Shifts. . . www.parcconline.org

13. What Are the Shifts at the Heart of PARCC Design (and the Standards)? • Complexity:Regular practice with complex text and its academic language. Engage with Complex Text

14. Shift 1:Regular practice with complextext and its academic language • PARCC builds a staircase of text complexity to ensure students are on track each year for college and career reading. • PARCC rewards careful, close reading rather than racing through passages. • PARCC systematically focuses on the words that matter most—not obscure vocabulary, but the academic languagethat pervades complex texts.

15. What Are the Shifts at the Heart of PARCC Design (and the Standards)? • 2. Evidence: Reading and writing grounded in evidencefrom text, literary and informational. Extract and Employ Evidence

16. Shift 2:Readingand writing grounded in evidencefrom text, literary and informational • PARCC focuses on students rigorously citing evidence from texts throughout the assessment (including selected-response items). • PARCC includes questions with more than one right answer to allow students to generate a range of rich insights that are substantiated by evidence from text(s). • PARCC requires writing to sources rather than writing to de-contextualized expository prompts. 7. PARCC also includes rigorous expectations for narrative writing, including accuracy and precision in writing in later grades.

17. What Are the Shifts at the Heart of PARCC Design (and the Standards)? 3.Knowledge:Building knowledge through content rich nonfiction. Build Knowledge

18. Shift 3:Building knowledge through content rich nonfiction • PARCC assesses not just ELA (English Teachers 6-12) but a full range of reading and writing across the disciplines of science and social studies. • PARCC simulates research on the assessment, including the comparison and synthesis of ideas across a range of informational sources.

19. Illinois Resources • www.isbe.net • Click on “Common Core – Math and ELA • (under Learning Standards) • Professional Learning Series • Capture the Core Newsletters • Learning Progression Tool • Strategies • Much more……

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22. References National Governors Association/Council of Chief State School Officers (2010). Common Core State Standards: English Language Arts. Retrieved August 26, 2013 from www.corestandards.org/the-standards. National Governors Association/Council of Chief State School Officers (2010). Key Points in English Language Arts. Retrieved August 26, 2013 from http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/key-points-in-english-language-arts. PARCC, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (2012). Advances in the PARCC ELA/Literacy Assessment. Retrieved August 27, 2013 from http://www.parcconline.org/samples/ELA. .

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