Common Core GPS English / Language Arts

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent“Making Education Work for All Georgians”www.gadoe.org

Common Core GPSEnglish / Language Arts

GAESPBrenda Schulz, Ed.D.

April 30, 2013


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Gone With the Wind A Good Man is Hard to FindPete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes

The Color Purple

The Water is WideUncle Remus: The Complete Tales

Peachtree RoadQueenie Peevy

Frankie Stein

The Library Dragon

A Taste of Blackberries

The Secret Life of Bees


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Lola Schafer Doris B SmithEric Litwan

Alice Walker

Carmen Agra Deedy Robert Burch

Joel Chandler Harris Margaret Mitchell

Pat Conroy Anne Rivers Siddons

Flannery O’Connor Sue Monk Kidd


The Shifts for ELA with CCGPS• Building knowledge through content-rich

nonfiction• Reading, writing and speaking grounded in

evidence from text, both literary and informational

• Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

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How are schools addressing the recommended 50/50 balance between informational and literary text?• Non-fiction text is harder for students to read and

comprehend. • Teachers may need to scaffold the learning and provide

support. • Informational texts include: memoirs, biography,

autobiography, personal essays, speeches, opinion pieces, literary criticism, foundational American works, primary sources in history and science. (this isn’t an exhaustive list.)

Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

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Informational Reading – Craft and Structure

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3rd Grade – ELACC3RI5 4th Grade –ELACC4RI5 5th Grade – ELACC5RI5

Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic quickly and efficiently.

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.

Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem / solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.


Evidenced-Based TextWhat questions should teachers be asking to ensure

that students’ answers are “evidence-based”?

1. What can we learn from the map and the text on pages ___? After looking at the map, how do things look for the people of Nome?

2. Why is it necessary to use several dog teams instead of just one? 3. What makes this part of the journey more difficult?

Source: Basal Alignment Project, Edmodo. Join BAP group, Group code - etuyrm

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Evidence-Based Text and PARCC

Part AWhat is one main idea of “How Animals Live?”a. There are many types of animals on the planet.b. Animals need water to live.c. There are many ways to sort different animals.d. Animals begin their life cycles in different forms.

Part BWhich detail from the article best supports the answer to Part A?a. “Animals get oxygen from air or water."b. "Animals can be grouped by their traits."c. "Worms are invertebrates."d. "All animals grow and change over time."e. "Almost all animals need water, food, oxygen, and shelter to live."

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Complex Text“…To grow, our students must read lots, and more specifically they must read lots of “complex texts – texts that offer them new language, new knowledge, and new modes of thought” (Adams, 2009)

How do we determine “complex text”? Qualitative, Quantitative, Reader & Task

Lexiles provide a quantitative measure for determining text complexity, but research shows that there is more to text complexity than just this quantitative measure.


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Academic VocabularyWhy is academic vocabulary important?

“Vocabulary knowledge is strongly related to reading proficiency, in particular, and school achievement in general.” (Beck, 2002)

Language Anchor Standard 6 – Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases..


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Academic VocabularyWhat is “academic” vocabulary?

Three tiers– Tier 1 - High-frequency words, words of everyday speech

went, about, was, look, education– Tier 2 – Academic words – cross content areas

analyze, function, principle– Tier 3 – Domain specific words

rhombus, cytoplasm


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Academic VocabularyHow do teachers select the right

academic words to teach?• What does the word choice bring to the meaning of the text?• Is it a word that students will likely see often in other texts?• Are there multiple meanings to the word? • Can you group it with other words or is within a word family?

(construct, reconstruction) Does the word help provide precision and specificity to a conceptual understanding?


Foundational Reading• Domains of Foundational Reading:

Print Concepts, Phonological Awareness, Phonics and Word Recognition, Fluency

• Look at the progression of skills across all domains• Assess frequently – informal and formal• Use assessment to determine when to move on to the

next step (for example, the student should know the sounds prior to blending)

• Apply intervention when necessary• Units were not written to address these standards

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The Cognitive ModelSteve Stahl and his colleagues (1999) and later modified by McKenna & K. A. D. Stahl (2009).

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Professional Learning Modules

– Professional Learning Architect Web Based Materials

• Contracted services to provide direct teacher professional learning (specific to early literacy, elementary, middle, and high school)

• 35 modules are currently available at http://www.comprehensivereadingsolutions.com/

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http://www.comprehensivereadingsolutions.com/



Recommended Module Order: Grades K-5

• Georgia Striving Readers Introduction• Planning the ELA Block

– Four modules address what should be included in the ELA Block– They are listed in alphabetical order on the screen but should be

followed in this order: Differentiating in…

Phonemic Awareness and Word Recognition (K-2) Word Recognition and Fluency (K-2) Fluency and Comprehension (1-5) Vocabulary and Comprehension (K-5)

- Grades 3-5 can probably skip the first two

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Recommended Module Order: Grades K-5 (cont.)

• Screening and Diagnosis (K-5)• Interactive Read-Alouds (K-5)• Writing Development (K-5)• Writing and Differentiated Reading Instruction (K-5) • Understanding Vocabulary Instruction (K-5)• Teaching Technical Vocabulary (K-5) • Motivating Students to Read (K-5) • Handwriting (K-1)

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Three BIG Shifts1. Building knowledge ..… content-rich

nonfiction2. …..evidence from text3. …..complex text…..academic language

Provide Instructional Resources

Provide Quality Professional Learning

Develop Partnerships and

Relationships

How are we addressing these three BIG shifts?


CCGPS Instructional Resources ELA webcasts,

New ELA webcasts called Common Core Tools– Find all webcasts posted on georgiastandards.org (ELA/professional learning); – Can be viewed in entirety or in chunks– All documentation is posted

Wealth of resources posted on georgiastandards.org, grade band Wiki pages, Comprehension Reading Solutions webpage.

New resources for content literacy Revised units (summer 2013) New CCGPS lessons (summer 2013)

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CCGPS Instructional ResourcesUnit Revision and New Lessons

– June 3-6 (ES) unit revision– Professional learning for team members– The Tri-State Rubric will be used to

evaluate each unit and determine the revisions that need to be made• No book titles will be removed, but an alternative title

may be added

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CCGPS ResourcesTri-State Rubric

http://www.achieve.org/files/TriStateELA_LiteracyRubric1pageoverviewv4.1%20071712CC%20BY.pdf

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Dimension #1 Alignment to the Rigors of Common Core Standards

Dimension #2Key Areas of Focus in the CCSS

Dimension #3Instructional Supports

Dimension #4Assessment





Resources and information can be found….

• ELA Reporter – join the listserves• CIA newsletter and webinar• ELA / Math webinars• Georgiastandards.org• Wiki pages

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Common Core GPS ELA/MathGeorgiastandards.org

• Join the list serve

• Visit the Wikis

• Use the Resource Documents

• Watch the Webcasts

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CCGPS ResourcesGeorgiastandards.org

• Choose a grade band.

• Expand the grade level

• Standards, Teacher guidance, transition standards, planning template, curriculum map

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CCGPS ResourcesLiteracy in Social Studies, Science & CTAE

• Standards• LDC• Literacy

and Learning Resources and Webinars

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Quality Professional Learning• Summer Academies 2013

– Four regional summer academies• July 10 – Georgia Southern University• July 12 – Kennesaw State College• July 16 – Macon State College• July 17 – UGA Extension Campus, Tifton

– Professional learning will focus on building literacy partnerships

– Registration opens at each site May 1 – FREE!!

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Top Ten Recommendations1. Plan professional learning for your teachers. Use resources available on georgiastandards.org, the K-5 wikipage-http://georgiaelaccgpsk-5.wikispaces.com/, comprehensivereadingsolutions.com

2. Increase the volume of reading for students – good mix of literary and informational.

3. Include more informational texts in the school-wide literacy instructional plan. (50%-70%)

4. Learn how to ask / write good questions that are text dependent, are worthwhile for class time, and require the student to “dig deep” for the answers.

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http://georgiaelaccgpsk-5.wikispaces.com/




Top Ten Recommendations

5. Use close reading appropriately. It isn’t necessary to analyze every text. Use this strategy to develop specific skills.

6. Thoughtfully increase the complexity of texts students read.

7. Explicitly teach foundational skills in K-2. Don’t forget that these students must learn to read.

8. Teach students to write and speak using evidence from the text.

9. Teach academic vocabulary.

10. Talk, share, collaborate, read professional books and articles!

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Some Suggested Resources• Dunkle, C. (2012) Leading the Common Core State Standards • McLaughlin M. & Overturf, B. (2013) The Common Core: Teaching K-5 Students to

Meet the Reading Standards • Owocki, G. (2013) The Common Core Lesson Book, K-5 • Owocki, G. (2013) The Common Core Writing Book, K-5• Gallagher, K. (2009) Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What you Can do

About It• Schmoker, M. (2011). Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student

Learning

• Basal Alignment Project – Edmodo.comJoin as teacher – search for BAP group – group code is etuyrm

• Readworks – readworks.org

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ELA / Literacy TeamBrenda Schulz, Ed.D.English Language Arts Program Coordinator K-12404-463-1933 [email protected] Humble, Ed.S

Education Program Specialist [email protected]

Susan Jacobs, M.Ed., NBCTEnglish Language Arts Program Specialist K-12404-656-0675 [email protected] Rock

Education Program Specialist / Literacy [email protected]

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