ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTSMODULE 1

AUGUST 22, 2012

READING COMMON CORE

Catchin’ Waves

Outcomes

receive an update on new resources

review the Common Core Reading Standards

participate in a close reading activity

work in grade level groups to identify the impact of the Common Core on instruction and student growth

Participants will…

Writing Instruction

On Demand Writing PromptsInstruction

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On Demand Writing Prompt Assessments

These prompts will replace the current writing checklist and the writing samples!!

End of Year Language Arts Folders

Please have the following artifacts in each student’s folder before passing to the next grade.

Intermediate Reading Profile checklist Most Recent F and P Benchmark Assessments

required for BGL students F and P Benchmark Assessment Summary Forms

required for BGL students Writing Assessment Record Writing Prompt Assessments (labeled with student’s

name, date, and identified purpose: W1 Opinion , W2 Informative/Explanatory, or W3 Narrative)

Intermediate Reading Assessments

There have been minor additions to the current passages to allow for more in-depth questions.

Some questions have been reworded to allow for close reading and text dependent responses.

The Assessment Map includes the grade specific CCSS and sample instructional considerations.

Continues to…Continues to… And now…And now…

help identify students’ reading behaviors

document individual reading progress

provide articulation information

aligns with the CCSS

is grade specific

is one single page

Intermediate Reading Profile Sheet

How is it going?

Are you…WALKING JOGGING

RUNNINGwith understanding the Common Core Standards?

Value Line

ELA Common Core

Reading

Writing

Language

Speaking and Listening

Key Ideas and Details

1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Craft and Structure

4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.

5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

6. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.1

8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

9. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

Reading Standards

Key ideas and details (Standards 1,2,3)

Craft and Structure (Standards 4,5,6)

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (Standards 7,8,9)

Range of Reading and Level of text complexity (Standard 10)

Key Ideas and details (Standards 1,2,3)

Craft and Structure (Standards 4,5,6)

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (Standards 7,8,9)

Range of Reading and Level of text complexity (Standard 10)

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Standards 2 & 3

Key ideas and Details

Standards 7,8, 9

Integration of Knowledge and

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Standards 4, 5, 6

Craft and Structure

Instructional Shifts Called for by the Common Core

How does this fit with the shifts?

Reflection

When was the last time you were challenged by a text?

What did you do to handle or manage working within your frustration?

What is Close Reading?

Close, analytic reading stresses engaging with text of sufficient complexity directly and examining its meaning thoroughly and methodically, encouraging students to read and reread deliberately. Directing student attention on the text itself empowers students to understand the central ideas and key supporting details. It also enables students to reflect on the meanings of individual words and sentences; the order in which sentences unfold; and the development of ideas over the course of the text, which ultimately leads students to arrive at an understanding of the text as a whole. Close, analytic reading entails the careful gathering of observations about a text and careful consideration about what those observations taken together add up to –from the smallest linguistic matters to larger issues of overall understanding and judgment.

PARCC

What is Close Reading?

Close, analytic reading stresses engaging with text of sufficient complexity directly and examining its meaning thoroughly and methodically, encouraging students to read and reread deliberately. Directing student attention on the text itself empowers students to understand the central ideas and key supporting details. It also enables students to reflect on the meanings of individual words and sentences; the order in which sentences unfold; and the development of ideas over the course of the text, which ultimately leads students to arrive at an understanding of the text as a whole. Close, analytic reading entails the careful gathering of observations about a text and careful consideration about what those observations taken together add up to –from the smallest linguistic matters to larger issues of overall understanding and judgment.

PARCC

Douglas Fisher

Close Reading and the Common Core State Standards

How would you describe Close reading ? How wouldyou define it?

Is close reading part ofaddressing the Common Core State Standards?

Example of Elevator Conversation

A close reading is a careful and purposeful reading and rereading of a text. It’s an encounter with the text where students really focus on what the author had to say, what the author’s purpose was, what the words mean, and what the structure of the text tells us.

Close reading requires that students actually think and understand what they are reading.

Read Closely to…

Engage with a text directlyLearn about language and rhetorical techniquesExamine its meaning thoroughly and

methodicallyUse texts of grade-level appropriate complexityExplore a specific theme or pattern within a text Focus reading on the particular words, phrases,

sentences, and paragraphs of the authorRead and re-read deliberately

Try and Apply

Listen to Invictus, a short poem written by English poet William Ernest Henley in 1875.

Invictus

Listen to Invictus, a short poem written by English poet William Ernest Henley in 1875.

Invictus

How would you describe the character of the narrator? What evidence in the poem supports your description?

Identify the mood of this poem. What words or phrases are used to convey the mood?

Silently read Invictus and be prepared to discuss the following questions

Out of the night that covers me,Black as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstanceI have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.Beyond this place of wrath and tearsLooms but the Horror of the shade,And yet the menace of the yearsFinds and shall find me unafraid.It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.

Invictus, meaning "unconquerable" or "undefeated" in Latin. The poem was written while Henley was in the hospital being treated for tuberculosis of the bone. He had had the disease since he was very young, and his foot had been amputated shortly before he wrote the poem. This poem is about courage in the face of death, and holding on to one's own dignity despite the indignities life places before us.

Writing TO Source

In Invictus, what is the meaning of I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul?

Instructional Practices

What did you notice? What strategies or activities did we use in this close reading activity to successfully comprehend this text?

•Multimedia•Definition of Close Reading•Video of Douglas Fisher•Audio of Invictus

•Universal Design of Learning•Group discussion•Independent practice•Different types of text

Link to UDL: http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/whatisudl

Placemat Group Work

1. What is the impact of the Reading Common Core Standards on our instructional practices?

2. What will we need to do less of so there is more time to devote to close reading?

Plan for Yearly Modules for Reading

Dates Topics

August 22, 2012 Common Core Reading Overview

October 9, 10, 12, 2012

Text Dependent Questions & Answers~ Close Reading

December 11, 12, 13, 2012

Academic Vocabulary

February 5, 6, 7, 2013 Text Complexity

May 7, 8, 9, 2013 Analytic Reading~ Writing to Source

Timeline 2012-2013

Mathematics ELA

Prekindergarten Implement (Content & Practices)

Awareness of Writing & Reading

K Implement Writing & Awareness of

Reading1

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3 Awareness (Content) Implement Writing & Reading

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Timeline 2013-2014

Mathematics ELA Content

Prekindergarten

Implement(Content & Practices)

Implement (Writing, Reading,

Language, Listening & Speaking)

K

1

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3 Pilot Social Studies

4 Pilot Social Studies and

Science

5 Pilot Social Studies and

Science

Transition Wiki

https://transitiontocommoncore.wikispaces.hcpss.org/

MSDE materials Common Core Standards Maryland Common Core Curriculum Frameworks Assessment Information

HCPSS materials Transition Information Educators Effectiveness Academy

Reaching the Top

With your guidance, students will reach the highest heights.

Thank you for your attention. We will see you in October.