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Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at Work™, Grades 6–8
Explore strategies for integrating the Common Core State Standards for English language arts for grades 6–8 in this resource, which focuses on areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention. You'll also learn how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at Work™ process. Critical chapter-opening questions guide discussion and help you leverage the CCSS to optimize student learning.
A Joint Publication With the International Reading Association
Benefits
- Master the CCSS for English language arts, and develop common understandings to strengthen instructional practice.
- Learn the five fundamental shifts in literacy instruction necessary to enhance students' language development.
- Plan successful collaborative team meetings with a variety of reproducibles to examine the standards.
- Gain tools to reflect on and assess students' knowledge and understanding of writing, reading, speaking and listening, and using language.
- Obtain sample student activities and peer response forms for individual and group work.
- Discover how to use the CCSS to support English learners and students with special needs.
- Develop high-quality formative and summative assessment strategies, including tasks for speaking and listening, questioning, writing, designing projects and presentations, and giving feedback.
- Move learners through important writing stages—novice (emergent) to mature (self-extending).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Using Collaborative Teams for English Language Arts
Chapter 2: Implementing the Common Core State Standards for Reading
Chapter 3: Implementing the Common Core State Standards for Writing
Chapter 4: Implementing the Common Core State Standards for Speaking and Listening and for Language
Chapter 5: Implementing Formative Assessments to Guide Instruction and Intervention
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
- Figure 2.1: Guiding Questions for Grade-by-Grade Analysis of the Reading Standards
- Figure 2.3: Collaborative Team Protocol for Determining Text Complexity
- Table 2.2: Qualitative Factors of Text Complexity
Chapter 3
- Figure 3.1: Guiding Questions for Grade-by-Grade Analysis of the Writing Standards
- Figure 3.2: Peer Response Feedback Form
- Figure 3.3: Cornell Note-Taking System Template
- Figure 3.4: Sample Discussion Web
- Figure 3.5: Sample Power Writing Graph
- How Fellow Writers Listen
- How Fellow Writers Talk
- Table 3.1: Characteristics of Writers
Chapter 4
- Figure 4.1: Guiding Questions for Grade-by-Grade Analysis of the Language Standards
- Figure 4.2: Guiding Questions for Grade-by-Grade Analysis of the Speaking and Listening Standards
Chapter 5
- Figure 5.2: Error Analysis for Seventh-Grade Compare-and-Contrast Essay
- Figure 5.3: Revised Error Analysis for Seventh-Grade Compare-and-Contrast Essay for Students Not Meeting Learning Target
- Figure 5.4: Sample Graphic Organizer for Planning an Argumentation Essay
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
- All Things PLC
- Animoto
- Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners
- Application to Students With Disabilities
- Association for Middle Level Education
- My Pop Studio
- NoteStar
- Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)
- RTI Action Network
- Simple English Wikipedia Entry About Ernest Hemingway
- Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)
- VoiceThread
- Voki
