Common Core Instruction for ELA

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Common Core Instructionfor ELA Literacy

• Understanding the Organization
• Audience K-5 Teachers

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Expected outcomes

• Understand that the College and Career Readiness
  (CCR) Anchor Standards
• Define cross-disciplinary literacy expectations
  needed for students to enter college and
  workforce training programs
• Provide the organizational backbone of the
  grade-specific Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
  for English Language Arts (ELA) and Literacy in
  History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical
  Subjects, except for the Foundational Skills
• Are organized into four strands with subheadings
  under each
• Depict an integrated model of literacy.
• Understand that grade specific CCSS
• Describe what all students should know and be
  able to do at the end of each grade or grade
  band.

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CCSS The big picture
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CCR ELA/Literacy strands

• College and Career Readiness (CCR) Anchor
  Standards are divided into four interrelated
  literacy strands.

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Subheadings divide the CCR strands.

• The CCRs in each literacy strand are grouped into
  sections by subheadings. For example,

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Activity CCRs in Reading

• Read through the CCR standards for READING under
  each subheading.
• In groups, discuss how the standards under each
  subheading are related. How are they distinct
  from those under other subheadings?
• Jot down phrases to describe the relationships or
  distinctions.

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Other CCR strands, subheadings

• Writing
• Text Types and Purposes
• Production and Distribution of Writing
• Research to Build and Present Knowledge
• Range of Writing
• Speaking and Listening
• Comprehension and Collaboration
• Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
• Language
• Conventions of Standard English
• Knowledge of Language
• Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

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An integrated model of literacy

• Although the Standards are divided into Reading,
  Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language
  strands for conceptual clarity, the processes of
  communication are closely connected, as reflected
  throughout the CCR and CCSS documents.

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Activity An integrated model of literacy

• Take a minute to read through the CCR anchor
  standards of the Writing, Speaking and Listening,
  and Language strands.
• In groups, highlight or mark the CCR anchor
  standards in Writing, Speaking and Listening, and
  Language that are closely connected to the
  Reading CCRs.

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Activity An integrated model of literacy

• What interrelationships did you notice with the
  Language strand? Others?
• Research and media skills are blended into the
  Standards as a whole. Find examples throughout
  the strands.

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Grade-specific Standards

• Describe what all students should know and be
  able to do at the end of each grade or grade
  band.
• Grade level standards at each grade K - 8
• Grade band standards at high school 9-10 and
  11-12
• Using a back-mapping design, grade-specific
  K-12 CCSS translate the aims of the CCR anchor
  standards into age- and attainment-appropriate
  terms.
• At the K-5 level only, an additional set of
  Foundational Skills are included in the Reading
  Standards.

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ELA/Literacy CCSS Strands
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CCRs provide a parallel backboneReading strand
example
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Example of back mapping design

• Reading CCR 5 Analyze the structure of texts,
  including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and
  larger portions of the text relate to each
  other and the whole.
• 9-10.RI.5 Analyze in detail how an authors
  ideas or claims are developed and refined by
  particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger
  portions of a text .
• 6-8.H.5 (History/Social Studies) Describe how a
  text presents information (e.g., sequentially,
  comparatively, causally).
• 4.RI.5 Describe the overall structure (e.g.,
  chronology, comparison, cause/effect,
  problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or
  information in a text or part of a text.
• K.RI.5 Identify the front cover, back cover, and
  title page of a book.

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K-5 Foundational Skills
Foundational Skills Grade Levels Grade Levels Grade Levels Grade Levels Grade Levels Grade Levels
1. Print Concepts K 1
2. Phonological Awareness K 1
3. Phonics Word Recognition K 1 2 3 4 5
4. Fluency K 1 2 3 4 5
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Activity Grade-specific standards

• Examine the Common Core State Standards at your
  own grade level
• Compare the Reading Literature standards with the
  Reading Informational Text standards.
• Find connections among the Reading standards and
  those in the other three strands.
• How might teachers at your level integrate
  standards from two or more strands into small
  units or complex tasks?

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How did we do?

• Decode the alphabet soup.
• ELA, RL/RI/RF, CCSS, CCR
• How are the CCR and the grade-specific Common
  Core State Standards related? Different?
• Recall the four strands in the Common Core State
  Standards for English Language Arts Literacy in
  the content areas.
• Briefly explain how one Language standard could
  be integrated into a reading, writing, or
  speaking/ listening task.

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Whats next? What how

• The Common Core State Standards define what all
  students are expected to know and be able to do.
• The Oregon Literacy Plan addresses in detail how
  comprehensive reading programs can support
  student success.
• Subsequent sessions will address instructional
  implications of the CCSS for Oregon teachers and
  highlight resources in K-12 Teachers Building
  Comprehension in the Common Core.
• Sneak a peek Using an Integrated Model of
  Literacy classroom snapshots, p R-39 to R-46
  http//www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/subjects/ela
  rts/reading/literacy/have-you-ever.pdf