“Deep Dive” Extension ActivityKentucky Core Academic Standards

JCPS Literacy Department 2011

To gain a deeper understanding of:◦ How to determine the intent of the English

Language Arts Standards for Reading Informational

◦ How the standards progress as student move through the grade levels

Organization of Standards◦ Key Terms: Strand, College and Career

Readiness Anchor Standards, Cluster, and Standards

Deep Dive◦ By grade level bands (K-5, or 6-12)◦ Select a Reading Informational Standard◦ Work with a partner or small group◦ Identify: key ideas and details ◦ Answer the questions on the blank “Deep Dive”

handout

• What did you learn from this process?• What did you notice about how the standards

progress?• What did you notice about the Reading

Informational Strand in particular?• What was difficult about this process?• What questions do you still have?

“None of us is as smart as all of us.”

~Ken Blanchard