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Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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About the Author |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Standards and Knowledge |
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What to Look for When Aligning Existing Standards With the Common Core |
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Understanding Informational Text and How It Is Different From Other Text |
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Definitions of the Common Core Text Types and Sample Prompts |
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What Do Opinion Piece/Argument Texts Entail? |
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What Do Informative/Explanatory Texts Entail? |
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20 | (3) |
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What Do Narrative Texts Entail? |
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23 | (2) |
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Identifying and Articulating the Language Standards Across Grades |
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25 | (8) |
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Exercise 1 What Is the Best Way to Group Standards? |
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Considerations for Grouping Standards |
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34 | (2) |
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36 | (1) |
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Exercise 2 How Are Standards Used to Determine What Students Should Know? |
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37 | (3) |
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40 | (1) |
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Chapter 2 Essential Understandings and Guiding Questions |
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The Nature and Critical Importance of Essential (or Enduring) Understandings |
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42 | (4) |
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Examples of Essential Understandings Aligned to the Common Core Reading Standards for Literature |
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46 | (6) |
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Exercise 3 How Do Educators Create (or Revise) Essential Understandings? |
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52 | (6) |
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The Nature and Importance of Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions |
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The Differences Between Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions |
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60 | (3) |
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Examples of Essential Understandings Linked With Guiding Questions for the Literature Reading Strand |
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Examples of Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions for Grammar and Conventions |
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Exercise 4 How Do Educators Create (or Revise) Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions? |
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Chapter 3 Unit Template With Examples |
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Informative Unit Map (Primary) |
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Narrative Unit Map (Elementary) |
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Opinion Unit Map (Upper Elementary) |
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96 | (1) |
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110 | (10) |
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120 | (5) |
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Exercise 5 How Do Educators Determine an Appropriate Culminating Assessment? |
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132 | (1) |
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Chapter 5 Skills, Activities, Formative Assessments, and Resources |
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What Is the Difference Between Skills and Activities? |
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133 | (2) |
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What About Teaching Strategies and Instructional Activities? |
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135 | (7) |
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Instructional Strategy: Rolling Dice or Cubes |
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142 | (9) |
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Option 1 What Prompts Can Teachers Feature on a Die or Cube? |
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143 | (1) |
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Option 1 How Might Students Respond to Die or Cube Prompts? |
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144 | (4) |
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Option 1 How Can Teachers Differentiate Die or Cube Prompts? |
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Option 2 How Do Teachers Use the Question Designer? |
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149 | (2) |
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Option 2 How Can Teachers Differentiate the Question Designer? |
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151 | (1) |
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How Can Teachers Prepare for a Die or Cube Learning Activity? |
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Instructional Strategy: Using Manipulatives |
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What Types of Manipulatives Can Educators Use, and How Can They Be Differentiated? |
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152 | (7) |
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What Activities Can Educators Implement During a Learning Experience Using Manipulatives? |
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159 | (2) |
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How Can Teachers Prepare for Using Manipulatives? |
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What Are Formative Assessments, and How Are They Linked to Instructional Activities? |
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162 | (4) |
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Exercise 6 What Targeted Skills With Associated Activities, Resources, and Assessments Can Educators Design (and Find) for a Targeted Unit? |
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Chapter 6 Differentiated Instruction |
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Content, Process, and Product |
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Readiness, Learning Profile, and Interest |
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176 | (2) |
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How Might Teachers Combine Readiness, Learning Profile, and Interest? |
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Exercise 7 How Can Educators Indicate Differentiation on the Unit Map? |
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178 | (1) |
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178 | (5) |
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183 | (4) |
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What Are the Components of Lesson Design? |
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What Are Examples of Lessons That Include the Components? |
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187 | (2) |
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189 | (1) |
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Lesson 1 What Is Believable or Unbelievable? |
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190 | (3) |
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Lesson 2 What Sentences Belong Together to Form a Paragraph? |
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193 | (5) |
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Lesson 3 What Is Point of View? What Impact Does a Narrator's Viewpoint Have on the Reader? |
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198 | (3) |
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Lesson 4 What Is Setting? What Are Different Types of Settings? |
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201 | (5) |
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Lesson 5 What Are the Expectations for My Finished Story? |
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Resource: A Brief Primer on the ELA Common Core Standards |
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Creation and Purpose of the Common Core Standards |
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215 | (1) |
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Who Led the Standards Initiative, and What Is the Goal? |
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215 | (1) |
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Who Are the CCSSO and NGA? |
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216 | (1) |
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Content and Structure of the Common Core Standards |
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216 | (4) |
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What Is Included in the Standards? |
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216 | (1) |
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What Is the Organizational Structure of the Common Core Standards? |
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216 | (4) |
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Research Highlights for the Reading and Speaking/Listening Strands |
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220 | (2) |
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What Are the Research Findings and Key Points for the Reading Standards? |
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220 | (1) |
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What Are the Research Findings for Speaking and Listening? |
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221 | (1) |
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222 | (1) |
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Can States Add to the Standards? |
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222 | (1) |
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How Can Standards Be Identified? |
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223 | (1) |
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Collaboration, Limitations, and Assessment |
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223 | (1) |
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Who Uses These Standards Besides the ELA Teacher? |
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223 | (1) |
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What Aspects Are Not Covered in the Common Core Standards Document? |
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223 | (1) |
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224 | (1) |
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224 | (3) |
References |
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227 | (2) |
Index |
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