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Education Week: Districts Push for Texts Aligned to Common Core - 1 views

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  • Published Online: July 17, 2012 Published in Print: July 18, 2012, as Big Districts Push for Teaching Texts Aligned to Common Core Districts Push for Texts Aligned to Common Core By Christina A. Samuels Printer-Friendly Email Article Reprints Comments Like Liked </l
  • est districts have come together to say they will only buy common-core instructional materials that meet a set of "publishers' criteria" written by a nonprofit organization that played a leading role in crafting the new standards.
  • "we need to make sure we demand that publishers respect the work that we've done on the common core." The pact among the school districts "will make it a little easier to hold publishers' feet to the fire," he said.
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  • The agreement includes districts serving New York City; Los Angeles; Chicago; Clark County, Nev.; and Hillsborough County, Fla., all among the nation's largest.
  • The standards themselves, however, don't go into detail on how student textbooks and instructional materials should look, thus the creation of the publishers' criteria.
  • To fully reflect the standards, for example, the publishers' criteria for grades 3-12 note that "80 to 90 percent of the reading standards in each grade require text-dependent analysis; accordingly, aligned curriculum materials should have a similar percentage of text-dependent questions."
  • An example of part of the publishers' criteria for grades K-2 notes that "though there is a productive role for good general questions for teachers and students to have at hand, materials should not over-rely on 'cookie cutter' questions that could be asked of a text, such as, 'What is the main idea? Provide three supporting details.' " Rather, the criteria say, questions should be individually crafted and draw students into the texts at hand.
  • it's a long way from setting criteria to developing, adopting, and publishing curricular materials and programs,
  • The question publishers have, he said, is how the criteria will figure into actual procurement decisions.
  • "It really shifts more toward comprehension and asking the right type of questions, as opposed to 'read this text and answer these questions.' "
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Education Week: Districts Gear Up for Shift to Informational Texts - 2 views

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  • choose books about those real-world topics as part of a unit on truth. Students are dissecting the sources, statistics, and anecdotes the authors use to make their arguments
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      anonymous on 19 Mar 12
       
      Notice how the emphasis is on "dissecting" the information in the text, not necessarily on the text itself as a "good example" of informational text. It's more about getting students to be critical consumers of the "truthfulness" of the author's message based on quality resources to back up the author's viewpoint. Excellent point about what "close reading of the text really is!"
  • Often, our nod to nonfiction is the autobiography or true-story version of something,"
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  • But there's a real gap in other kinds of nonfiction
  • I'm relying on different kinds of strategies and a lot more explicit teaching,
  • We spend a lot of time talking about attributes of nonfiction, like how to read an interview. Or how to tell the difference between fact and opinion."
  • Using fiction has many positive and useful values, and it shouldn't be lost or pushed so far to the sidelines that it disappears."
  • The common standards' emphasis on informational text arose in part from research suggesting that employers and college instructors found students weak at comprehending technical manuals, scientific and historical journals, and other texts pivotal to their work in those arenas.
  • The common core's vision of informational text includes literary nonfiction, as well as historical documents, scientific journals and technical manuals, biographies and autobiographies, essays, speeches, and information displayed in charts, graphs, or maps, digitally or in print.
  • vocabulary
  • professional development aimed at helping teachers think through how to craft instructional units and tasks reflecting the shift in the standards
  • district set up a digital "common-core library" that includes 13 "bundles" of sample activities, lesson plans, and other resources for instruction based on informational text
  • The immediate challenge of the informational-text emphasis, however, lies more in training than in materials,
  • [it's] actually figuring out how to structure classrooms so we speak to text and kids are using text in conversations with each other and are grappling with the meaning of text.
  • we need to make sure that by the end of high school, students are reading science journals,
  • right now, just simply the act of reading the science textbook and absolutely making the textbook—rather than the teacher—generate the answers.
  • It's one thing to tell school districts that we must do close reading of informational text," he said. "It's very different to say, 'Here is what's involved with a close reading.' "
  • Treasures does include some informational text, "but not sufficiently, we would say. We wanted something that would supplement that."
  • elementary reading coaches have met with Nell K. Duke, the Michigan State University professor who wrote Buzz About IT, and are meeting monthly to study her research, Ms. Acquavita said
  • Funding for materials and professional development that reflect the standards could prove to be an issue for states, and, as a result, for companies that produce them
  • We have been unpleasantly surprised that a number of states are only now starting to wrestle with the cost of this,
  • New criteria for adoptions of basal instructional materials for the bridge year, approved by the state in January, specify that materials must include "high-quality, complex informational text" in the ratios specified by the standards.
  • Its statewide literacy plan delves into explanations of six major shifts in the English/language arts standards, and the state has also produced an online "toolkit" offering teachers instructional videos and other resources on those shifts.
  • The biggest concern state officials are hearing from teachers is that they be assured of having adequate lesson plans, curriculum maps, and other resources to teach the standards once that begins in 2012-13
  • o convey its expectations for new materials, the state has hosted a webinar for publishers, pointing them to the "publishers' criteria" developed by the common-standards writers for grades K-2 and 3-12, which describe what is required for materials to align well with the standards.
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