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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!"
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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!"</div>
  
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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
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I'm relying on different kinds of strategies and a lot more explicit teaching,
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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."
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Using fiction has many positive and useful values, and it shouldn't be lost or pushed so far to the sidelines that it disappears."
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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.
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The common core's vision of informational text includes literary nonfiction, as well as historical documents, scientific journals and technical manuals, biographies and autobiographies, essays, speeches, and information displayed in charts, graphs, or maps, digitally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.
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vocabulary
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professional development aimed at helping teachers think through how to craft instructional units and tasks reflecting the shift in the standards
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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
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The immediate challenge of the informational-text emphasis, however, lies more in training than in materials,
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[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.
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we need to make sure that by the end of high school, students are reading science journals,
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right now, just simply the act of reading the science textbook and absolutely making the textbook—rather than the teacher—generate the answers.
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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.' "
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Treasures does include some informational text, "but not sufficiently, we would say. We wanted something that would supplement that."
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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
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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
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We have been unpleasantly surprised that a number of states are only now starting to wrestle with the cost of this,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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anonymous on 19 Mar 12

information text- actions by districts to prepare for CCSS changes

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">information text- actions by districts to prepare for CCSS changes</div>

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