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Common Core State Standards Initiative

How to Get Students to Really Listen, Summarize/Paraphrase, and Respond to Peers

October 2, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. 3 Comments

If you’re noticing a large gap between your students’ speaking skills and the ambitious Speaking and Listening Standards within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), you’re not alone: many teachers that I talk to share how difficult it is to have discussions or debates in which students actually listen to one another and respond. Mentioning […]

Beyond the Common Core Standards

July 1, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

As I mentioned in the first post on Teaching the Core, I’ve never been a fan of teaching standards; in fact, “standards” is a word that I happily deleted from the Tagxedo word cloud that I created out of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) ELA & Literacy document. A ton of things attracted me to becoming […]

Common Core R.CCR.3 Explained

June 1, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. 7 Comments

R.CCR.3 — unabbreviated, that’s the third College/Career Readiness anchor standard within the Reading strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA/Literacy — reads as follows: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. Within this standard, I see a lot of questions we could ask […]

Common Core R.CCR.2 Explained

May 29, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. 4 Comments

R.CCR.2 — or, in regular people’s language, the second College/Career Readiness anchor standard within the Reading strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA/Literacy — reads as follows: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas Within this standard, I see several skills. […]

Common Core R.CCR.1 Explained

May 29, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. 4 Comments

R.CCR.1 — or, in regular people’s language, the first College/Career Readiness anchor standard within the Reading strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA/Literacy — reads as follows: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions […]

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