Common Core Instructional Shifts
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TeachingBooks.net helps with your Common Core instructional shifts by...
- Identifying exceptional and relevant books for your classroom,
- Providing ready-to-use instructional materials for each text to expose your students to a range of text types, formats, cultural perspectives, and authoritative information as suggested by the Common Core Standards.
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Here are 4 instructional shifts that TeachingBooks.net directly supports.
Shift 1: Balance Informational & Literary Texts + See Next Steps and Goals - Showing Next Steps and Goals
Expose students to a true balance of informational and literary texts with exceptional, teacher-selected titles.
- Identify titles from the booklists found in each "grade level band" on the left.
- Goal: 50 - 80 % of texts all students read is informational.
Shift 2: Increase Reading in All Disciplines+ See Next Steps and Goals- Showing Next Steps and Goals
Provide teachers in all content areas exceptional, teacher-selected texts with varying complexity and rigor.
- Identify titles from the booklists accessed by "grade level band" on the left.
- Goal: all students are exposed to a range of text types, formats, cultural perspectives, and authoritative information outside of ELA and within history, science, social studies, and the arts.
Shift 3: Require Knowledge & Direct Consideration of the Text+ See Next Steps and Goals- Showing Next Steps and Goals
Support students' evidentiary argument skills both in conversation and in writing to assess their comprehension of a text.
- Have ready-to-use questions about books that require students to reference the text in their answers. See the "Book Guides & Lesson Plans" found within each title on specific booklists accessed by "grade level band" on the left.
- Goal: students use direct evidence of text, in lieu of personal reflections, in building evidence-based answers about studied text.
Shift 4: Expose Students to Authentic Writing & Research Processes+ See Next Steps and Goals- Showing Next Steps and Goals
Enable students to hear directly from award-winning writers about their development of ideas, use of language, organization of story, and research experiences.
- Have "Meet-the-Author Movies", "Meet-the-Author Book Readings", and other author interviews found within the titles on each booklist accessed by "grade level band" on the left.
- Goal: Students expand writing and research skills by learning directly from the experiences of professional book creators.
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