CCSS

Page dedicated to Common Core State Standards

//**Common Core**// Document:[|CCSSI_ELA Standards.pdf] //**(Teach reading, writing, speaking, listening skills)**//

Unit Plans for department - [|PM Curriculum Framework-4(2).doc]

//Some examples//
 * Writing**: Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
 * Reading**: Cite evidence from text to support generalizations
 * Writing**: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.

Many of these documents are on SAS - click on CLEAR STANDARDS and then COMMON CORE http://www.pdesas.org/Standard/CommonCore

These documents relate to the standards developed by the COMMON CORE. They are resources to teach LITERACY in every content area.

1) Discusses TEXT COMPLEXITY and reading levels [|Appendix_A.pdf]

2) TEXT examples and TASK examples - these give actual readings to use - but these are just examples and are not mandated. The TASKS are written prompts that teachers can use in any content area. [|Appendix_B.pdf]

3) There is an Appendix C - with student writing samples; however, it is too large to link to the page. Sign onto SAS and click this link: http://www.pdesas.org/Standard/CommonCore //THIS HAS GRADE-APPROPRIATE WRITING SAMPLES//

4) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports the Literacy Design Collaborative. They are trying to get more teachers to implement the Common Core and the performance tasks associated with each grade level. [|LDC_Brochure-_to_print[2.pdf]]

5) This is another article that goes a little beyond Bloom's Taxonomy. Sometimes the word "describe" (which Bloom considers a recall type of question) can be used to get students to think deeply. The following article describes how DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE can be obtained in a variety of tasks. DOK or depth of knowledge does not always require "analysis" as an objective. [|webbs-depth.pdf]

6) The Literacy Design Collaborative has developed "performance tasks" that address the COMMON CORE STANDARDS. The Literacy Design Collaborative hopes to have more to offer teachers of PA in terms of ways they can implement the Common Core Standards in the classroom. This template gives a variety of performance/writing tasks that can be used in any subject. The SAS website will eventually have more lessons written with Common Core Standards and LDC performance tasks. [|LBD Template Tasks.pdf]

Maybe the PERFORMANCE TASKS are something we could work on in teams in addition to developing the course map? Here are how the tasks apply to CCSS Template tasks require students to:

1. Read texts as specified by the common core standards; 2. Write products as specified by the common core standards; 3. and Apply common core literacy standards to content with a focus on ELA (English-Language Arts), social studies, and/or science.

More ideas... Online graphic organizer to help students plan persuasive writing... http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/

Online graphic organizer to help students map out an informational essay... http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/essaymap/

Senate Testimony on KEYSTONES!! Part I: http://nova.pasenategop.com/hearings/2011/education/032211a.wmv Part II: http://nova.pasenategop.com/hearings/2011/education/032211b.wmv