L.CCR.2 — that’s the 2nd College and Career Readiness anchor standard within the Language strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA/Literacy — says: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. For a great overview of the first three anchor standards within the Language strand, check out Saturday’s post on […]
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Common Core L.CCR.1 Explained
At this point, we, the community at the Teaching the Core blog, have grappled with three of the four “strands” of Common Core anchor standards. Yippee! L.CCR.1 — that’s the 1st College and Career Readiness anchor standard within the Language strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA/Literacy — says: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard […]
9 Big Ideas within the Speaking and Listening Standards
Every day or so, someone finds this website through searching some variation of “big ideas in the Common Core Speaking and Listening standards.” The problem is, an answer to that question isn’t currently easy to find on Teaching the Core! In order to try providing a better resource for that search, as well as for […]
7 Great Common Core Resources for History AND ELA Teachers
I just added and annotated 7 great resources for both US and world history teachers in the Resources page of Teaching the Core. (For the sake of convenience, I’ve copied the list of resources below.) These books weren’t written specifically with the Common Core in mind, but they all offer bountiful tie-ins to numerous CCR […]
4 Ways to Screw Up (and Fix) In-class Arguments
Yesterday, something awesome happened during lunch: our school’s burgeoning “Nerd Club” decided to hold a debate on which video game console is the best. Here’s how Sean M. got it kicked off: This was so much fun. I applaud my students for taking it upon themselves to carry out an intellectual debate during their lunch […]