Common Core Curriculum
Changes to come
· How much nonfiction should you be teaching
· All teachers are literacy teachers
· Increase lexile range scores
· Writing for the common core will be argumentative
· Big changes are taking place at the elementary level
· Strands
o Reading
o Writing
o Speaking and listening
o Language
o Media literacy
o Research
· Reading
o Balance of literature and informational texts
o Text complexity
· Writing
o Emphasis on argument and informative/explanatory writing
o Use of technology to facilitate interaction and collaboration
· Persuasive vs. argumentative writing
o Kids can’t just make an emotional appeal
o Well-reasoned argument required
o What is argument?
· Text complexity
o We will need to teach more complex texts
· Explicit strategy instruction
o Create awareness
o Model (that’s not at or above their frustration level) & demonstrate
o Practice
o Apply
· Previewing text
o Activating prior knowledge
§ Ex. Anticipation guides (to build interest or get a base-line; be a discussion starter; there does not have to be a correct answer)
o Text impressions
§ Key phrases or ideas from text in order they will encounter them
Example
§ Cats
§ Skyscrapers
§ Window
§ Veterinarian
§ Scientific paper
§ Explain how these words will fit together in a text
§ A cat lived in the penthouse of a skyscraper always staring out the window. His owner became so concerned that he took him to the veterinarian who wrote a scientific paper about them.
o Radiolab (podcast?)
· Argumentation
o Requires some research
o The way of presenting information to be most persuasive
· Making inferences
o Lowest on every test
o Inside + outside
§ Inside the text + outside the text + my answer (connecting “inside” and “outside” details)
o Making inferences about photographs, paintings, etc.
· Distinguishing fact from opinion
o Words signaling opinion
o Because you say it’s a fact doesn’t make it a fact.
o Who is authoring the piece? Would they want to influence you in a particular way?
o Interrogation of media, specifically advertising
· Argument
o Debate
§ How can we use this to promote good argument
Math:
· Corestandards.org
· What should we teach?
· How should we teach it?
· NCTM
· International Standards
o TIMSS
· Fewer topics year to year
o Concrete
o Pictorial
o Abstract
· Common Core State Standards
o Fewer standards=slow down the pace to insure understanding
o Focused and more coherent
o Build deeper understanding of content
· Students want the teacher to set the problem up so that they can solve, but setting up the problem is the key part.
· Conversation about how student solved problem (discuss process)/ justification of answer
· Concretizing math
· Mix of discovery vs. direct instruction
· Word problems—application
· Ask “are you sure?” whether they are right or not. This will lead to them owning their answer.
o If you say “good job” when a student answers correctly and “are you sure” when they answer incorrectly, then you are tipping your hand.
· Visualization=concretizing the abstract
· Bruner (UK; concrete, abstract, pictorial)
· Draw out the problems when possible
· PARCC assessment state…software based assessment
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