RCAS Elementary Literacy Bringing the Common Core State Standards to Life From Paper to Practice

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Problems - Standards often contain multiple ideas and are written in adult educational terms. - There are many standards

Solution Disaggregate the standards to reveal the important parts and use student friendly language. Notice the way groups of standards work together in an efficient manner.

Learning Targets Disaggregate an ELA standard to: Reveal important parts Examine the relationship between Literature and Informational Text Convert the standard to student- friendly learning targets

Copyright The anchor standards serve a critical overarching purpose in identifying essential learnings for all K-12 students. Students will encounter the same ideas every year at a more sophisticated text level, creating endurance, leverage, and powerful learning. Discussion Point #1 #1

The 10 Reading Anchors apply to both Fictional and Informational text. Rather than seeing 20 distinct standards, we want to see 10 ideas applied to both contexts. Discussion Point #2 # 2

Copyright Break the standard into big important ideas Focus on Key Words Look for verbs and important nouns 2. Determine the Cognitive Load of each idea ( Bloom’s or Webb Level) Know and Understand 3. Write student friendly learning targets for each idea What will we learn? What is the focus of today’s lesson? Process for turning a standard into learning targets

Break the standards into important parts R. CCR. 2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. Determine the central ideas or theme of a text Analyze the development of the central idea or theme Summarize key details This Anchor standard applies to all students K-12 and is applied in nearly every reading situation in both literature and informational text. In an information age, this standard provides students with the capacity to sift and sort information, find the relevant pieces, and then summarize for meaning.

Determine the Cognitive Load R. CCR. 2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. Determine the central ideas or theme of a text Analyze the development of the central idea or theme Summarize key details Webb Level 1-3 (SBAC) Webb Level 2-3 (SBAC Grades 3-10) What is the rigor required to learn this part? Level 1 Recall Level 2 Concept Level 3 Strategic Level 4 Extending

Write Kid-Friendly Learning Targets R. CCR. 2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. Analyze the development of the central idea or theme Webb Level 2-3 (SBAC Grades 3-10) Literature Trace the development of the story line, giving important details that support your thinking. (Beginning, Middle, End) Informational Text Draw a graphic organizer to represent the text structure used by the author to present information. (Cause/Effect, Problem/Solution)

The 10 Anchors are organized into 4 big ideas making the task of implementation much more reasonable. Discussion Point #3 # 3 Example- Standards 1-3 are all related to Key Ideas and Details. The big ideas include: Close reading to include “right there” ideas and inferences Cite text evidence Find big ideas, important details, and the overall theme or topic Summarize ideas to make meaning of the text Follow characters, events, and ideas through a text and think about how they interact or connect to each other

From warm, well-fed, and oblivious… to the reality of a long, sleepless night.

Adapted from Gordon’s “Learning Stages” Ladder, 1974 Adapted, Adopted, & Applied by the Literacy Department of the Rapid City Area Schools Unconsciously Unskilled (We don’t know what we don’t know) Consciously Unskilled (We know what we don’t know) Consciously Skilled (We know what we know) Unconsciously Skilled (Automaticity)

Leadership Actions As a collective school community become familiar with the big ideas in the anchor standards. Practice looking for and listening for these big concepts in student work. Build learning targets and assessments from the anchors. The grade specific standards provide assistance in unpacking the standards.