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Common Core W.CCR.10 Explained

August 1, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. 6 Comments

(Wiping sweat from brow.) All right, let’s finish these writing anchor standards. W.CCR.10 — that’s the 10th (and final!) College and Career Readiness anchor standard within the Writing strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA/Literacy — reads as follows: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time […]

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 […]

A Class Purpose and the Promotion of Student Flourishing

June 28, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

I love summer break’s gift of decompression. It is during the weeks from mid-June to mid-August that my brain defrags the preceding school year’s experiences, condensing them into a more manageable series of memories, lessons, and principles. What are we about? One principle that I began examining in the Fall of 2011 is that of […]

Highest Frequency Words in the CCSS for ELA & Literacy

June 27, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. 4 Comments

Inspired by Partner in Education’s Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Wordle, I plugged the standards document into Tagxedo to see which words dominate the standards. See the results below:

Common Core R.CCR.4 Explained

June 26, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

R.CCR.4 — that’s the fourth College/Career Readiness anchor standard within the Reading strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA/Literacy — reads as follows: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. This standard […]

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