Focus on text : tackling the Common Core reading standards, grades 4-8 /

As schools shift to the Common Core, many English language arts teachers are left with questions about how their classrooms should look. Is fiction out? Can I still do strategy instruction? Does close reading mean deliberating on each word? Finally, there's a resource with all of these answers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benjamin, Amy, 1951-
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Series:Eye on Education book.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Meet the Author; Introduction; Part One How the Reading Standards Are Being Implemented; 1 Inside Classrooms: How Exactly Has the Common Core Been Changing America's Classrooms?; 2 Text Complexity and Readability Measurements; 3 On Babies and Bathwater: Correcting Misunderstandings about the Common Core; 4 Assessments for the Reading Standards; Part Two A Close Look at Teaching Each of the Reading Standards; 5 The Need for Phonics Instruction with Academic Reading; 6 Reading Standards 1-3: Key Ideas and Details; Standard 1; Standard 2.
  • Standard 37 Reading Standards 4-6: Craft and Structure; Standard 4; Standard 5; Standard 6; 8 Reading Standards 7-9: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas; Standard 7; Standard 8; Standard 9; 9 Reading Standard 10: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity; Standard 10; Appendix A: The Reading Standards, Grade by Grade; Appendix B: The Other Literacy Standards; References.