Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, 6–12
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Your blueprint for skilled Common Core literacy alignment!
Learn to artfully navigate Common Core - or any state/province - standards with concrete, step-by-step instruction from master teacher and curriculum specialist, Kathy Tuchman Glass. Confidently map a unit of study aligned to Common Core’s rigorous, evidence-based writing and reading requirements. Dive into in-depth analyses of informational text with supporting essential questions. Glass walks you through the entire process with manageable chunks that eliminate overwhelm.
Chapters include thorough explanations, step-by-step exercises, and detailed templates, assessments, charts, tips, and prompts centered around key CCCS concepts for grades 6–12.
Teachers, curriculum committees, grade level teams, and professional development leaders will learn to:
- Challenge and engage students in all content areas using the CCCS ELA framework
- Use existing curriculum and materials to design new, CCCS-aligned units of study
- Identify mandatory CCCS ELA essential understandings for informational text, evidence-based writing and other critical competencies
- Conduct resource-rich workshops and professional development
This all-in-one instructional guide, with a companion website for extra help, improves your professional capacity to create, revise, or critique quality-driven units and lessons aligned to the ELA Common Core. Get this essential blueprint to building high quality 6–12 grade-level curriculum for skilled CCCS literacy-aligned success!
“Like them or hate them, the Common Core Standards represent one of the most significant opportunities for improvement schools have faced in decades. This book will be a great help to anyone engaged in the act of translating the Common Core into actual teaching practices.”
--Jim Knight, Author of High-Impact Instruction
Contents
List of Figures
List of Figures
Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Introduction
- Chapter 1: Standards and Knowledge
- The Purpose of Standards
- Key Areas of Emphasis in the ELA Common Core Standards
- Understanding Fiction and Nonfiction Characteristics
- Definitions of the Common Core Text Types and Sample Prompts
- What Do Argument Texts Entail?
- What Do Informative/Explanatory Texts Entail?
- What Do Narrative Texts Entail?
- A Closer Look at Appendix C: Samples of Student Writing
- Identifying and Articulating the Language Standards Across Grades
- Exercise 1: What Is the Best Way to Group Standards?
- Unit Focus and Template
- Considerations for Grouping Standards
- Grouping Standards: Two Approaches
- Definition and Examples for Knowledge
- Exercise 2: How Are Standards Used to Determine What Students Should Know?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 2: Essential Understandings
- The Nature and Critical Importance of Essential (or Enduring) Understandings
- Essential Understandings as Statements of Conceptual Intent
- Examples of Essential Understandings Aligned to the Anchor Standards for Reading
- Special Considerations: Time, Intellectual Growth, Clustering
- Constructing Your Own Essential Understandings
- Exercise 3: How Do Educators Create (or Revise) Essential Understandings?
- Sharing Essential Understandings With Your Students
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 3: Guiding Questions
- The Importance of Guiding Questions
- Sharing Guiding Questions With Your Students
- The Differences Between Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions
- Designing Text-Dependent Questions for Complex Text
- How Do Teachers Facilitate Close Reading of Complex Texts?
- Examples of Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions for Grammar and Conventions
- Constructing Your Own Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions
- Exercise 4: How Do Educators Create (or Revise) Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 4: Unit Map Template and Example
- Customizing and Adapting the Unit Map to Fit Your Needs
- Organizing Unit Maps and Student Work
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 5: Summative Assessments and Preassessments
- Types of Assessments
- Summative (Culminating) Assessments
- Rubrics
- Checklists
- Preassessments
- Constructing Your Own Summative Assessment
- Exercise 5: How Do Educators Determine an Appropriate Summative Assessment?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 6: Skills, Activities, Formative Assessments, and Resources
- Skills
- Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities
- Formative Assessments
- Resources
- Identifying Skills and Constructing Activities, Evidence of Assessment, and Resources for Your Targeted Unit
- Exercise 6: What Targeted Skills With Associated Activities, Evidence of Assessment, and Resources Can Educators Design (and Find) for a Targeted Unit?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 7: Differentiated Instruction
- Content, Process, and Product
- Readiness, Learning Profile, and Interest
- Instructional Strategy: Rolling Dice or Cubes
- Instructional Strategy: Using Manipulatives
- Constructing Your Own Differentiated Instructional Strategies
- Exercise 7: How Can You Indicate Differentiation on Your Unit Map?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 8: Lesson Design
- Lesson Components
- Sample Lessons
- Next Steps After Designing Lessons
- A Final Note
- Lesson 1: What Are Inferences? How Do I Make Inferences About This Text?
- Lesson 2: What Is Characterization? How Do Authors Use Characterization to Create and Develop Characters?
- Lesson 3: What Factors Help Me to Evaluate the Credibility of Sources?
- Lesson 4: What Are Elements of an Argument Paper? What Are the Expectations for My Finished Argument?
Resource: A Brief Primer on the ELA Common Core Standards
- Creation and Purpose of the Common Core Standards
- Who Led the Standards Initiative, and What Is the Goal?
- Who Are the CCSSO and NGA?
- Content and Structure of the Common Core Standards
- Research Highlights for the Reading Strand
- Logistics
- Can States Add to the Standards?
- How Can Standards Be Identified?
- Collaboration, Limitations, and Assessment
- Who Uses These Standards Besides the ELA Teacher?
- What Aspects Are Not Covered in the Common Core Standards Document?
- What to Look for When Aligning Existing Standards With the Common Core
- Assessments
- Closing
References
References
Index
Index
Resources
Companion Website
http://www.corwin.com/mappingela6-12Additional materials
Description
Your blueprint for skilled Common Core literacy alignment!
Learn to artfully navigate Common Core - or any state/province - standards with concrete, step-by-step instruction from master teacher and curriculum specialist, Kathy Tuchman Glass. Confidently map a unit of study aligned to Common Core’s rigorous, evidence-based writing and reading requirements. Dive into in-depth analyses of informational text with supporting essential questions. Glass walks you through the entire process with manageable chunks that eliminate overwhelm.
Chapters include thorough explanations, step-by-step exercises, and detailed templates, assessments, charts, tips, and prompts centered around key CCCS concepts for grades 6–12.
Teachers, curriculum committees, grade level teams, and professional development leaders will learn to:
- Challenge and engage students in all content areas using the CCCS ELA framework
- Use existing curriculum and materials to design new, CCCS-aligned units of study
- Identify mandatory CCCS ELA essential understandings for informational text, evidence-based writing and other critical competencies
- Conduct resource-rich workshops and professional development
This all-in-one instructional guide, with a companion website for extra help, improves your professional capacity to create, revise, or critique quality-driven units and lessons aligned to the ELA Common Core. Get this essential blueprint to building high quality 6–12 grade-level curriculum for skilled CCCS literacy-aligned success!
“Like them or hate them, the Common Core Standards represent one of the most significant opportunities for improvement schools have faced in decades. This book will be a great help to anyone engaged in the act of translating the Common Core into actual teaching practices.”
--Jim Knight, Author of High-Impact Instruction
Contents
List of Figures
List of Figures
Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Introduction
- Chapter 1: Standards and Knowledge
- The Purpose of Standards
- Key Areas of Emphasis in the ELA Common Core Standards
- Understanding Fiction and Nonfiction Characteristics
- Definitions of the Common Core Text Types and Sample Prompts
- What Do Argument Texts Entail?
- What Do Informative/Explanatory Texts Entail?
- What Do Narrative Texts Entail?
- A Closer Look at Appendix C: Samples of Student Writing
- Identifying and Articulating the Language Standards Across Grades
- Exercise 1: What Is the Best Way to Group Standards?
- Unit Focus and Template
- Considerations for Grouping Standards
- Grouping Standards: Two Approaches
- Definition and Examples for Knowledge
- Exercise 2: How Are Standards Used to Determine What Students Should Know?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 2: Essential Understandings
- The Nature and Critical Importance of Essential (or Enduring) Understandings
- Essential Understandings as Statements of Conceptual Intent
- Examples of Essential Understandings Aligned to the Anchor Standards for Reading
- Special Considerations: Time, Intellectual Growth, Clustering
- Constructing Your Own Essential Understandings
- Exercise 3: How Do Educators Create (or Revise) Essential Understandings?
- Sharing Essential Understandings With Your Students
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 3: Guiding Questions
- The Importance of Guiding Questions
- Sharing Guiding Questions With Your Students
- The Differences Between Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions
- Designing Text-Dependent Questions for Complex Text
- How Do Teachers Facilitate Close Reading of Complex Texts?
- Examples of Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions for Grammar and Conventions
- Constructing Your Own Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions
- Exercise 4: How Do Educators Create (or Revise) Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 4: Unit Map Template and Example
- Customizing and Adapting the Unit Map to Fit Your Needs
- Organizing Unit Maps and Student Work
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 5: Summative Assessments and Preassessments
- Types of Assessments
- Summative (Culminating) Assessments
- Rubrics
- Checklists
- Preassessments
- Constructing Your Own Summative Assessment
- Exercise 5: How Do Educators Determine an Appropriate Summative Assessment?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 6: Skills, Activities, Formative Assessments, and Resources
- Skills
- Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities
- Formative Assessments
- Resources
- Identifying Skills and Constructing Activities, Evidence of Assessment, and Resources for Your Targeted Unit
- Exercise 6: What Targeted Skills With Associated Activities, Evidence of Assessment, and Resources Can Educators Design (and Find) for a Targeted Unit?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 7: Differentiated Instruction
- Content, Process, and Product
- Readiness, Learning Profile, and Interest
- Instructional Strategy: Rolling Dice or Cubes
- Instructional Strategy: Using Manipulatives
- Constructing Your Own Differentiated Instructional Strategies
- Exercise 7: How Can You Indicate Differentiation on Your Unit Map?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 8: Lesson Design
- Lesson Components
- Sample Lessons
- Next Steps After Designing Lessons
- A Final Note
- Lesson 1: What Are Inferences? How Do I Make Inferences About This Text?
- Lesson 2: What Is Characterization? How Do Authors Use Characterization to Create and Develop Characters?
- Lesson 3: What Factors Help Me to Evaluate the Credibility of Sources?
- Lesson 4: What Are Elements of an Argument Paper? What Are the Expectations for My Finished Argument?
Resource: A Brief Primer on the ELA Common Core Standards
- Creation and Purpose of the Common Core Standards
- Who Led the Standards Initiative, and What Is the Goal?
- Who Are the CCSSO and NGA?
- Content and Structure of the Common Core Standards
- Research Highlights for the Reading Strand
- Logistics
- Can States Add to the Standards?
- How Can Standards Be Identified?
- Collaboration, Limitations, and Assessment
- Who Uses These Standards Besides the ELA Teacher?
- What Aspects Are Not Covered in the Common Core Standards Document?
- What to Look for When Aligning Existing Standards With the Common Core
- Assessments
- Closing
References
References
Index
Index
Resources
Companion Website
http://www.corwin.com/mappingela6-12Additional materials
May 2013 | 288 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9781452268620 | $43.95 |
| Lifetime | 27/02/2023 | 9781483331768 | $40.00 |
Your blueprint for skilled Common Core literacy alignment!
Learn to artfully navigate Common Core - or any state/province - standards with concrete, step-by-step instruction from master teacher and curriculum specialist, Kathy Tuchman Glass. Confidently map a unit of study aligned to Common Core’s rigorous, evidence-based writing and reading requirements. Dive into in-depth analyses of informational text with supporting essential questions. Glass walks you through the entire process with manageable chunks that eliminate overwhelm.
Chapters include thorough explanations, step-by-step exercises, and detailed templates, assessments, charts, tips, and prompts centered around key CCCS concepts for grades 6–12.
Teachers, curriculum committees, grade level teams, and professional development leaders will learn to:
- Challenge and engage students in all content areas using the CCCS ELA framework
- Use existing curriculum and materials to design new, CCCS-aligned units of study
- Identify mandatory CCCS ELA essential understandings for informational text, evidence-based writing and other critical competencies
- Conduct resource-rich workshops and professional development
This all-in-one instructional guide, with a companion website for extra help, improves your professional capacity to create, revise, or critique quality-driven units and lessons aligned to the ELA Common Core. Get this essential blueprint to building high quality 6–12 grade-level curriculum for skilled CCCS literacy-aligned success!
“Like them or hate them, the Common Core Standards represent one of the most significant opportunities for improvement schools have faced in decades. This book will be a great help to anyone engaged in the act of translating the Common Core into actual teaching practices.”
--Jim Knight, Author of High-Impact Instruction
Table Of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Standards and Knowledge
- The Purpose of Standards
- Key Areas of Emphasis in the ELA Common Core Standards
- Understanding Fiction and Nonfiction Characteristics
- Definitions of the Common Core Text Types and Sample Prompts
- What Do Argument Texts Entail?
- What Do Informative/Explanatory Texts Entail?
- What Do Narrative Texts Entail?
- A Closer Look at Appendix C: Samples of Student Writing
- Identifying and Articulating the Language Standards Across Grades
- Exercise 1: What Is the Best Way to Group Standards?
- Unit Focus and Template
- Considerations for Grouping Standards
- Grouping Standards: Two Approaches
- Definition and Examples for Knowledge
- Exercise 2: How Are Standards Used to Determine What Students Should Know?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 2: Essential Understandings
- The Nature and Critical Importance of Essential (or Enduring) Understandings
- Essential Understandings as Statements of Conceptual Intent
- Examples of Essential Understandings Aligned to the Anchor Standards for Reading
- Special Considerations: Time, Intellectual Growth, Clustering
- Constructing Your Own Essential Understandings
- Exercise 3: How Do Educators Create (or Revise) Essential Understandings?
- Sharing Essential Understandings With Your Students
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 3: Guiding Questions
- The Importance of Guiding Questions
- Sharing Guiding Questions With Your Students
- The Differences Between Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions
- Designing Text-Dependent Questions for Complex Text
- How Do Teachers Facilitate Close Reading of Complex Texts?
- Examples of Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions for Grammar and Conventions
- Constructing Your Own Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions
- Exercise 4: How Do Educators Create (or Revise) Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 4: Unit Map Template and Example
- Customizing and Adapting the Unit Map to Fit Your Needs
- Organizing Unit Maps and Student Work
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 5: Summative Assessments and Preassessments
- Types of Assessments
- Summative (Culminating) Assessments
- Rubrics
- Checklists
- Preassessments
- Constructing Your Own Summative Assessment
- Exercise 5: How Do Educators Determine an Appropriate Summative Assessment?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 6: Skills, Activities, Formative Assessments, and Resources
- Skills
- Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities
- Formative Assessments
- Resources
- Identifying Skills and Constructing Activities, Evidence of Assessment, and Resources for Your Targeted Unit
- Exercise 6: What Targeted Skills With Associated Activities, Evidence of Assessment, and Resources Can Educators Design (and Find) for a Targeted Unit?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 7: Differentiated Instruction
- Content, Process, and Product
- Readiness, Learning Profile, and Interest
- Instructional Strategy: Rolling Dice or Cubes
- Instructional Strategy: Using Manipulatives
- Constructing Your Own Differentiated Instructional Strategies
- Exercise 7: How Can You Indicate Differentiation on Your Unit Map?
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 8: Lesson Design
- Lesson Components
- Sample Lessons
- Next Steps After Designing Lessons
- A Final Note
- Lesson 1: What Are Inferences? How Do I Make Inferences About This Text?
- Lesson 2: What Is Characterization? How Do Authors Use Characterization to Create and Develop Characters?
- Lesson 3: What Factors Help Me to Evaluate the Credibility of Sources?
- Lesson 4: What Are Elements of an Argument Paper? What Are the Expectations for My Finished Argument?
- Resource: A Brief Primer on the ELA Common Core Standards
- Creation and Purpose of the Common Core Standards
- Who Led the Standards Initiative, and What Is the Goal?
- Who Are the CCSSO and NGA?
- Content and Structure of the Common Core Standards
- Research Highlights for the Reading Strand
- Logistics
- Can States Add to the Standards?
- How Can Standards Be Identified?
- Collaboration, Limitations, and Assessment
- Who Uses These Standards Besides the ELA Teacher?
- What Aspects Are Not Covered in the Common Core Standards Document?
- What to Look for When Aligning Existing Standards With the Common Core
- Assessments
- Closing
- References
- Index