Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Not Another Thing: Integrating Common Core Literacy Standards into Social Studies Classroom Daniel Rock, Education Program Specialist, Literacy Mary Lynn Huie, Literacy Trainer Georgia Department of Education

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Education Reform 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Key Questions What can I do to help students read primary and secondary sources in Social Studies? How do I design meaningful writing opportunities for a social studies classroom? 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Learning Targets Teachers will be able explain the reasons for content area literacy standards. Teachers will intentionally teach strategies that improve literacy skills. 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Reading Study Summary * Source of National Test Data: MetaMetrics Text Lexile Measure (L) High School Literature College Literature High School Textbooks College Textbooks Military Personal Use Entry-Level Occupations SAT 1, ACT, AP* Interquartile Ranges Shown (25% - 75%)

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” What Do the Standards Say? But first, remember, more important than individual standards are… 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” …The Three Big Shifts Building content knowledge through (reading) rich nonfiction Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from the text, both literary and informational. Regular practice with complex text and its academic language. -Student Achievement Partners 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Looking at the Standards Compare the social studies literacy standards with the science/CTAE literacy standards: where are the most significant differences? Why are the differences appropriate? 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Let’s Get Textual! But my kids can’t read the text! 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” 6/26/2016 Reciprocal Teaching Predicting Clarifying Questioning Visualizing Summarizing Students take the role of teacher by learning and teaching these skills. What is it?

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Reciprocal Teaching 6/26/2016 Teacher explicitly teaches strategies. Students take turns practicing strategies independently and in groups with text or media. Students rotate through the roles. Students share and compare responses within small groups. Students collaboratively answer their own questions. Students share best questions and answers with class. Students learn to predict, question, clarify, and summarize independently.

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” 6/26/2016 Each member of group has a role

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Jig-Saw 1. Establish a home group. 2. Count off within home group Read silently and begin activity on your own. 4. Find “expert group” and complete activity together. 5. Return to home group and share results. Take notes based on what you hear. 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Expert Groups 1s: Close Reading of Text 2s: Anticipation Guides 3s: RAFT 4s: Squeepers 5s: Key Concept Synthesis 6s: History Events Chart 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” The Bigger Picture 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Why Arguments? Students like to argue (but they often do not know how to argue well). Recognizing arguments that are not based on evidence is part of being an informed citizen. Arguments clarify the relevance and importance of understanding the content. 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Argument “Knowing a lot of stuff won’t do you much good unless you can do something with what you know by turning it into an argument.” Gerald Graff, “An Argument Worth Having” 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” And the best reason of all-- Controversy clarifies,... intellectual issues become intelligible to us at points of controversy, when we become able to see who’s where on the issues, what the relationships between positions are, and what’s at stake.” Gerald Graff, “Clueless in Academe” 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Four Corners 6/26/2016 Agree Strongly Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree The U.S. is a Christian nation

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Support Your Claim Turn your position into a claim… “The United States is a Christian nation” or The United States is not a Christian nation” On sticky notes write down evidence from some text or reliable source. What are the strongest reasons? Why are they strong? 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Create a Counter Claim Read the supporting evidence on the chart paper in front of you. Identify counter arguments that refute the stated claim. Post them on the chart paper. 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” So Let’s Argue—Well The Toulmin Method – Make a claim – Based on evidence – Include a warrant that explains how the evidence supports the claim – Add backing that supports the warrants – Incorporate qualifications and rebuttals (counter arguments) to refute competing claims – From George Hillocks, Teaching Argument Writing (2011) 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Strategies to Help Students Argue Well Claim – Four Corners/Vote with your Feet – They say/I say Evidence – Evaluating Evidence graphic organizer Warrant – Warrant Workout 6/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” For more information-- Daniel Rock, Mary Lynn Huie, 6/26/2016