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Common Core State Standards

Common Core W.CCR.3 Explained

July 17, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

W.CCR.3 — that’s the 3rd College and Career Readiness anchor standard within the Writing strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA/Literacy — reads as follows: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. This is the final mode of writing within the big […]

7 Great Common Core Resources for History AND ELA Teachers

July 14, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

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 […]

Does the Common Core Allow for Creative Writing?

July 14, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

If you’re an ELA teacher, all of this talk about THE three forms of writing in the Common Core State Standards (argumentative, informative/explanatory, and narrative) and about the importance of college/career readiness might be a bit unnerving. After all, where is the love for the creative writing that led many of us (including me) to […]

Common Core W.CCR.2 Explained

July 13, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. 3 Comments

W.CCR.2 — that’s the 2nd College/Career Readiness anchor standard within the Writing strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA/Literacy — reads as follows: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. As far as importance goes, informative/explanatory writing […]

8 Reasons I Embrace Arguments in my Classroom

July 12, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. 7 Comments

While writing yesterday’s post about the first writing anchor standard (W.CCR.1), I began to list some reasons why arguments really were a highlight of my past school year’s English and world history classes. I didn’t think I’d do anything with the list so soon… Until today. While I was outside in the driveway cutting some […]

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