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Changes in English Language Arts In Our Move To Common Core January 9, 2014

Changes in English Language Arts In Our Move To Common Core January 9, 2014 Jessica Rentas, District Literacy Coach. What are the changes?. Fewer, clearer, more rigorous standards Common assessments: state comparisons will increase pressure for performance

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Changes in English Language Arts In Our Move To Common Core January 9, 2014

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  1. Changes in English Language Arts In Our Move To Common Core January 9, 2014 Jessica Rentas, District Literacy Coach

  2. What are the changes? • Fewer, clearer, more rigorous standards • Common assessments: state comparisons will increase pressure for performance • Common assessments provide data to effectively inform classroom instruction

  3. 7th Grade ELA Before (NJCCS): Produce written work and oral work that demonstrate comprehension of informational materials. After (CCSS): Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

  4. NJASK Questions • more literal questions • students are able to read and find answers “right there” in the text • vocabulary questions ask solely for definitions

  5. Finding Theme

  6. Main Idea

  7. Vocabulary

  8. Right There/Think and Search

  9. “Right There”

  10. PARCC Questions Texts worth reading: The assessments will use authentic texts worthy of study and that are motivating and engaging to read, instead of artificially produced or commissioned passages. Questions worth answering, which includes: Sequences of questions that draw students into deeper encounters with texts (as in an excellent classroom), rather than sets of random questions of varying quality. Items that allow students to demonstrate what they know, rather than what they don’t know—where items allow for partial credit Items that allow for expression of divergent thinking

  11. Finding Theme

  12. Main Idea/Supporting Details

  13. Vocabulary

  14. Author and Me and On My Own

  15. “Author and Me”

  16. Ways to support at home. • READ • read to self • read to someone • someone reads to them • Discussions • read to self – Students should reflect on the part of the book they liked the best, provide evidence, and explain • read to someone – What was the GIST? W’s • someone reads to them – Talk about the characters and why the characters actions are important

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