The Common Core Standards for Literacy are broken down into three components. These three components are a comprehensive K-5 sections and two content area specific-sections for grades 6-12, one for ELA and one for history/social studies, science, and the technical subjects. These sections are then divided into strands. K-5 and 6-12 each have Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and language strands. The 6-12 history/social studies, science, and technical subjects have different strands. These strands focus on Reading and Writing. Each of these strands is headed by a set of College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards, that are specific to the strand. The College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards are identical across all grades and content areas.
Key Features of the Standards:
Reading: Text complexity and the growth of comprehension
The standard places emphasis on both the level of the text that is being read and the skills in which they use to read. Standard 10 uses the analogy of reading being a staircase, in which complexity increases as students rise from beginning readers to college and career readiness level. Students must show growth in their ability to use fuller text, making connections between texts, ideas, increasing their ability to use textual evidence, and become more sensitive to inconsistencies, ambiguities, and poor reasoning texts.
Writing: Text types, responding to reading, and research
The standard places emphasis on the student's ability to draw a connection between writing and reading by requiring students to write about evidence from literary and informational texts. The standard recognizes that the centrality of writing is inquiry based, therefor research standards are prominently included in this strand. This standard also acknowledges that arguments, informative/explanatory texts, and narratives are more properly defined in terms of writing of specific writing types.
Common Core Standards for Literacy
Overview:
The Common Core Standards for Literacy are broken down into three components. These three components are a comprehensive K-5 sections and two content area specific-sections for grades 6-12, one for ELA and one for history/social studies, science, and the technical subjects. These sections are then divided into strands. K-5 and 6-12 each have Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and language strands. The 6-12 history/social studies, science, and technical subjects have different strands. These strands focus on Reading and Writing. Each of these strands is headed by a set of College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards, that are specific to the strand. The College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards are identical across all grades and content areas.Key Features of the Standards:
Reading: Text complexity and the growth of comprehension
The standard places emphasis on both the level of the text that is being read and the skills in which they use to read. Standard 10 uses the analogy of reading being a staircase, in which complexity increases as students rise from beginning readers to college and career readiness level. Students must show growth in their ability to use fuller text, making connections between texts, ideas, increasing their ability to use textual evidence, and become more sensitive to inconsistencies, ambiguities, and poor reasoning texts.Writing: Text types, responding to reading, and research
The standard places emphasis on the student's ability to draw a connection between writing and reading by requiring students to write about evidence from literary and informational texts. The standard recognizes that the centrality of writing is inquiry based, therefor research standards are prominently included in this strand. This standard also acknowledges that arguments, informative/explanatory texts, and narratives are more properly defined in terms of writing of specific writing types.Courtney's Wordle
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