ABSTRACT
Zoom in on the academic skills students are required to learn in reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language! This book cuts through all of the Common Core jargon and gets right to the heart of what students need to learn now. Big Skills for the Common Core is packed with engaging strategies you can use immediately to improve your students' literacy skills and help them retain those skills.
Special features include...
- Charts that break down the skills for each anchor standard and put them into teacher- friendly language. BONUS! The charts highlight the big shifts for teachers for discussion and sharing.
- Practical strategies to help students tackle and understand complex texts.
- Helpful ideas for teaching argument writing, plus writing rubrics and assessment strategies.
- Clear information on Tier II and Tier III words and how to teach them.
In addition, each section of the book ends with "Classroom Close-Ups," which take you inside real classrooms that are implementing the Common Core. You'll see the standards in action across the curriculum and get takeaway tips you can use tomorrow in your own classroom!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |33 pages
Reading
chapter |4 pages
Reading and the Common Core
chapter |11 pages
Meticulous Reading
chapter |5 pages
Recreational Reading: The Missing Ingredient
part |10 pages
Classroom Close-Ups
part |43 pages
Writing
chapter |4 pages
Writing and the Common Core
chapter |11 pages
Creating a Writing Culture: What Do Students Need?
chapter |6 pages
Writing to Learn: Science, Meet Syntax. Syntax, This Is Science.
chapter |4 pages
Writing a Cogent Argument
chapter |8 pages
Formative and Summative Assessments
part |7 pages
Classroom Close-Ups
part |35 pages
Speaking and Listening
chapter |3 pages
Speaking and Listening and the Common Core
chapter |5 pages
Traditional Classroom Discourse: The Recitation Script
chapter |8 pages
Moving Toward Socratic Dialogue
chapter |5 pages
Developing Social Competencies
chapter |4 pages
Whiteboarding
part |5 pages
Classroom Close-Ups
part |46 pages
Language
chapter |5 pages
Language and the Common Core
chapter |7 pages
Grammar and the Common Core
chapter |20 pages
Teaching Vocabulary
chapter |5 pages
Spelling as Word Study
part |5 pages
Classroom Close-Ups