Publisher's Synopsis
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
