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Jodi Walker

CLOSE reading in Elementary Schools - 3 views

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    An interesting article from The Reading Teacher
Tracy Watanabe

Six Ways the Common Core is Good For Students | NEA Today - 1 views

  • 1. Common Core Puts Creativity Back in the Classroom
  • 2. Common Core Gives Students a Deep Dive
  • When students can explore a concept and really immerse themselves in that content, they emerge with a full understanding that lasts well beyond testing season, says Kisha Davis-Caldwell, a fourth-grade teacher at a Maryland Title 1 elementary school.
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  • 3. Common Core Ratchets up Rigor
  • 4. Common Core is Collaborative
  • 5. Common Core Advances Equity
  • go a long way to closing achievement and opportunity gaps for poor and minority children. If students from all parts of the country — affluent, rural, low-income or urban — are being held to the same rigorous standards, it promotes equity in the quality of education and the level of achievement gained.
  • 6. Common Core Gets Kids College Ready
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    good to share with parents
Tracy Watanabe

Educators Evaluating Quality Instructional Products | Achieve - 1 views

  • Educators Evaluating Quality Instructional Products (EQuIP) is a collaborative of ADP Network states that are focused on increasing the supply of quality instructional materials that are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and available for instruction in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. 
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    As we think about how to evaluate progress, I wonder about rubrics such as this. More importantly, I think about the Analyzing Students' Work, Thinking, and Learning Analysis Tool we created at the beginning of this school year. -- I heard Heidi Hayes Jacobs refer to this in a recent webinar I watched of her. 
Tracy Watanabe

NAESP | National Association of Elementary School Principals - 0 views

  • Principal leadership is critical in the transition to Common Core State Standards. NAESP has developed this checklist to help you determine what bodies of knowledge and skill sets you will need to gain as you prepare to lead your school into using the new standards.
Tracy Watanabe

Late Elementary (Grades 3-5): English Language Arts: Reading Standards for Informationa... - 1 views

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    "As you work to integrate Common Core standards into your classroom, it may help to look at sample lessons. In this set, you can see lessons, presentations, and assessments working with informational text (grades 3-5). Remember that you can search the site by grade level and common core standard and that other subject areas besides Common Core are included on the site." --Vicki Davis
Tracy Watanabe

Welcome to SciStarter - 1 views

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    Pick an activity or topic in science, and find real world application and projects to join.
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    While teachers are wondering where to get non-fiction connections, I say look to free resources like these. Wow!
Tracy Watanabe

http://www.centeroninstruction.org/files/Building%20the%20Foundation.pdf - 1 views

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    Grade to Grade side-by-side changes in standards from year to year K-5 ELA
Tracy Watanabe

Technology & Engineering Passages | ReadWorks.org | The Solution to Reading Comprehension - 0 views

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    Great STEM reading passages with CCSS questions -- Click on link to see passage and click on links for Teacher's Guide K-8th grade passages (Scroll down for middle school science) - Reading passages for students (STEM) -- with Teacher Guide (click on links to see) for Common Core
Tracy Watanabe

Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Search Lesson | The Thinking Stick - 1 views

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    Great lesson for evaluating Internet Site validity. Common Core Writing standards 7 & 8.
Tracy Watanabe

3rd - 5th Grade Search Lesson | The Thinking Stick - 0 views

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    Great lesson for evaluating Internet Site validity. Common Core Writing standards 7 & 8.
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