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Publishers' Criteria for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy, Grades K-2 David Coleman * Susan Pimentel INTRODUCTION Key Criteria for Text Selections The Common Core State Standards point strongly toward a text-based approach for teaching students how to read, including those students who lag behind in achieving reading facility. To bring all students up to grade-level reading proficiency, the criteria recommended below emphasize the need to provide all students with consistent opportunities to confront and comprehend grade-level complex text. This may require extra scaffolding for some students. 1. Texts for each grade align with the complexity requirements outlined in the standards. The Common Core State Standards hinge on students encountering appropriately complex texts at each grade level to develop the mature language skills and the conceptual knowledge they need for success in school and life. In each grade (beginning in grade 1), Reading Standard 10 outlines the level of text complexity at which students need to demonstrate comprehension. This can start in kindergarten or even earlier with complex texts read aloud to students. (Appendix A in 4 REVISED 8/25/2011 the Common Core State Standards gives further information on how text complexity can be measured.)1 2. All students, including those who are behind, have extensive opportunities to encounter and comprehend grade-level complex text as required by the standards. Far too often, students who have fallen behind are given only less complex texts rather than the support they need to read texts at the appropriate level of complexity. Complex text, whether accessed through individual reading, through read-alouds, or as a group reading activity, is a rich repository to which all readers need access. Complex text contains more sophisticated academic vocabulary, lends itself to more complex tasks, and is able to support rich dialogue. Because studen

This is the sight I was telling you about. It has great videos and might be good for some PD. Their Common Core Videos are especially good. I see that they have 85 videos. I've only watched the following 5. They were really informative 1. Common Core State Standards for ELA and Literacy All Grades, ELA, Common Core 2. Common Core State Standards for Math All Grades, Math, Common Core 3. Common Core State Standards: High School Grades 9-12, ELA, Math, CCSS 4. Common Core State Standards: Middle School Grades 6-8, ELA, Math, Common Core 5. Common Core State Standards: Elementary School Grades K-5, ELA, Math, Common Core

"Learning English (ESL) Welcome to ESLDesk.com, a free site for English learners. Not being a native English speaker myself, I started this website a long time ago (in 1997) as an ESL activities page, and it's kind of grown from there. I do hope you will find vocabulary, grammar, spelling, reading and other resources on this site to be helpful in learning English Language and I look forward to seeing you here quite often... Language (ESL) tools: WordSpell, - spelling self practice. Use your own list of words to create spelling test. ESL Reader - it is not a translator. It is a tool to help your learn to read English. It makes each word into a link so, while reading, you can easily look-up any word definition or translation by clicking on it. ESL - Learn English Online The ESL Links Site - Learning English Teaching English Esl Program Student Scholarships/Grants/Loans Dictionaries Loads Translators, References, Specialty and Language Dictionaries in a popup window. Once window is open you can reposition and resize it to your liking. You can load English References only or add your language dictionary to the list by clicking on any of the following links Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Cartoons ESL Books, Software, DVDs, and Electronic Dictionaries. Grammar ebooks and Ebook Reader English Grammar and Grammar Practice What are Adverbs Adverbs List Identify Adverbs Practice What are Adjectives Adjectives List Adjective or Pronoun Spelling Practice What are Nouns List of Irregular Nouns Irregular Nouns Spelling, Dolch Word List Spelling: Nouns What are Pronouns List of Pronouns Personal Pronouns Types of Pronouns Pronoun or Adjective Identify Pronouns Pronoun: Who Whom Whose Spelling Practice What are Verbs "To Be". E

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