Procedures for Starting This Session  Sign in, put on your name tag & pick up an agenda  Get some food from the back room  Rank your knowledge of the Common Core State Standards – Literacy in the Content Areas Place a colored dot (MS = blue & HS = green) on the continuum. Continuum is on east wall.

Literacy in Science and Social Studies Common Core State Standards Allegan AESA

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Strategy: Quick Write Why do YOU do what you do? What keeps you at this work?

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Today’s Outcomes:  Introduce the background and structure of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) – Literacy in Content Areas.  Interact with the CCSS document and support materials in order to become familiar with the standards.  Understand the SMARTER Balance Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Framework and its implications on instruction.  Learn how to interact with colleagues using MOODLE.

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Today’s Agenda:  Career and College Readiness Standards – Overview (Literacy in the History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects)  SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) – sample assessments  Using MOODLE to keep connected in between sessions

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Introduction Exercise

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Understanding the Common Core Find someone not at your table from a different district. You will be working with this partner for the next half hour.  Strategies: A-B Pair Share Read Silently, Simultaneously

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Introduction: Page 3 Read paragraph 3 which focuses on the criteria for the CCSS. How is this different from the way we have set standards in the past? Partner A What are the implications of a College and Career Ready measure? Partner B

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Introduction: Page 3 Read paragraph 5. Silently, Simultaneously Why & how science and social studies are included? Partner A

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Introduction: Page 4 Read and highlight these sections on Key Design Considerations: A focus on results rather than means Research and media skills blended into the Standards as a whole Shared responsibility for students’ literacy development Read silently, simultaneously

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Introduction: Page 4 Key Design Considerations: How is this similar to what is happening in your school? Partner B

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Introduction: Page 6 What is Not Covered by the Standards  At your table, divide up the six sections on page 6. Read, share, discuss As you talk about what the CCSS are NOT, what is most reassuring to you?

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Introduction: Page 7 Students Who are College and Career Ready Skim through these qualities Choose a word or phrase describing a CCR student that you think is MOST essential Be ready to share that word or phrase

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): Introduction, Pg. 5 How do these percentages compare to your answers on the formative assessment? Thank your partner.

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Writing Standards: Exploring the Anchor Standards Literacy in Science /Social Studies  Looking Across Grade Spans  Looking Down a Grade Level

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Exploring the Anchor Standards: Anchor standards 1 & 2 are the types of writing. Anchor standards 4-9 describe how writing should look and how it is done. Anchor standard 10 describes when and for what purposes students write.

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Exploring the Anchor Standards: On your own read through standards 1 & 2 as they progress K-12.

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Exploring the Anchor Standards: Working with a partner at your table you will develop a meaning/definition for one of the anchor standards (4-9).  Look at one anchor standard as it progresses from  With your partner identify the meaning and key points of the standard.  Partners will share out their thinking with the group.

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Writing Standards: Exploring the Anchor Standards Literacy in Science and Social Studies  Looking Across Grade Spans  Looking Down a Grade Level

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Writing Standards: Exploring the Anchor Standards Literacy in Science and Social Studies  Looking Across Grade Spans  Looking Down a Grade Level

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Writing Standards: Exploring the Anchor Standards Literacy in Science  Looking Across Grade Spans  Looking Down a Grade Level

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Looking at the assessments SBAC samples

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies

Looking at 4 th grade “Sharks” example: Using the K-5 writing standards link them to your grade level – What is the skill progression?

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Looking at 4 th grade “Sharks” example: Strategy: FQR (Fact, Question, Respond) Using your graphic organizer review this sample assessment and make connections to current practices you currently use at your grade level.  Fact: What facts do you see?  Question: What questions arise as you read?  Respond: What connections or thoughts do you have?

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Break into Content Specific Groups Strategy: Text Review Center Box: name and grade level of assessment 4 boxes:  Task Requirements to be Proficient  DOK and Type of Writing  What challenges do you see as a teacher?  What benefits do you see for your students?

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Strategy: Whip Around What was your big “A-ha”? 30 seconds or less

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Resources: The assessment consortium of which Michigan is a member Excellent adolescent literacy resources including CCSS information MDE CCSS information ACT’s Reading Behind the Lines

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Resources: Allegan AESA CCSS Resource Warehouse Amy Oliver Pam Rickli Phone: (269)

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Resources: AAESA Instructional Services MOODLE This is the Asynchronous portion of the Secondary Content Writing Series. You can log into the course anytime, anywhere there is internet.

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies The purpose for using the moodle site is to keep you connected in between meetings and beyond! We are also using it as a way to model a technology integration strategy.

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Go to  Click on ‘create a new account’  You will need to fill out a short form  Check your for confirmation  Clicking on the link in will take you back to Moodle and you will be logged in!

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Exit Slip: For our next meeting, what is at the top of your “wish list” to move your learning forward? What conversations about writing in the content area do you plan on having back in your district?

CCSS: Literacy in Science and Social Studies Next Steps