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California’s Common Core Content Standards for

California’s Common Core Content Standards for. English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies & Science and Technical Subjects. Objectives. Overview Key Design Considerations Additional 15% Organization Similarities Shifts Areas of Emphasis. The Standards.

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California’s Common Core Content Standards for

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  1. California’s Common Core Content Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies & Science and Technical Subjects

  2. Objectives • Overview • Key Design Considerations • Additional 15% • Organization • Similarities • Shifts • Areas of Emphasis

  3. The Standards • Build toward preparing students to be college and career ready in literacy by no later than the end of high school • Provide a vision of what it means to be a literate person in the twenty-first century • Develop the skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening that are foundational for any creative and purposeful expression in language

  4. The Standards Set Requirements for Both... • English Language Arts (ELA) • Reading • Writing • Speaking & Listening • Language • Literacy in History/Social Studies & Science and Technical Subjects • K-5: Embedded in ELA • 6-12: Separate section

  5. Key Design Considerations • College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards • Grade levels for K-8; grade bands for 9-10 and 11-12 • A focus on results rather than means • An integrated model of literacy • Research and media skills integrated into the Standards as a whole • Shared responsibility for students’ literacy development • Focus and coherence in instruction and assessment

  6. Intentional Design Limitations Note what the Standards DO and DO NOT cover

  7. Intentional Design Limitations Note what the Standards DO and DO NOT cover

  8. California’s Criteria for the Additional 15% • Substantively enhance • Address a perceived gap • Be defensible to classroom practitioners • Keep the original standard intact • Ensure the rigor of California’s existing standards is maintained

  9. California’s Additional 15%Examples of Additions • Analysis of text features in informational text (Gr. 6-12) • Career and consumer documents included in Writing (Gr. 8) • “Both in isolation and in text” added to the application of phonics and word analysis skills (Gr. K-3) • Penmanship added to Language (Gr. 2-4) • Formal presentations included in Speaking and Listening (Gr. 1-12) • Minor additions and insertions to enhance and clarify (e.g., archetypes, thesis)

  10. Standards Organization • Three main sections • A comprehensive K-5 section • Two content-area specific sections for grades 6-12 • English Language Arts • History/Social Studies & Science and Technical Subjects • Four strands • Reading • Writing • Speaking and Listening (K-12 ELA only) • Language (K-12 ELA only)

  11. Strand Organization • Subheadings are consistent across grade levels within each set of standards • Locate the handout at the back of your packet

  12. Organization of Standards Across Grade Levels • K-12 grade-specific standards define end-of-year expectations • A cumulative progression designed to enable students to meet college and career readiness expectations no later than the end of high school

  13. Reading: Informational Text College and Career Readiness - Anchor Standard 2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details. Standard 2 - Note the progression across grade levels: • Kindergarten: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. • Grade 2: Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. • Grade 4: Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

  14. Reading: Informational Text Standard 2 Note the progression across grade levels: • Grade 6: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. • Grade 8: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text. • Grades 11-12: Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.

  15. Similar Organization

  16. Sample Standards ComparisonGrades 1 and 3

  17. Sample Standards ComparisonGrade 6

  18. Sample Standards ComparisonGrades 9-10

  19. Placement Shifts

  20. Writing Applications Common Core Standards for CA • Write Opinions (K-5); Write Arguments (6-12) • Write Informative/Explanatory Texts • Write Narratives CA Standards • Narratives • Expository Descriptions • Friendly Letters • Personal or Formal Letters • Response to Literature • Information Reports • Summaries • Persuasive Letters/Compositions • Research Reports • Fictional Narratives • Biographical/Autobiographical Narratives • Career Development Documents • Technical Documents • Reflective Compositions • Historical Investigation Reports • Job Application/Resume

  21. A Progression of Writing The Standards cultivate three mutually reinforcing writing capacities: • To persuade • To explain • To convey real or imagined experience

  22. Shared Responsibility for Teaching the Standards • A single K-5 set of grade-specific standards • Most or all of the instruction students receive comes from one teacher • Two content area–specific sections for grades 6-12 • One set of standards for ELA teachers • One set of standards for history/social studies, science, and technical subject teachers • The literacy standards in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects are meant to complement rather than supplant content standards in those disciplines

  23. Areas of Emphasis in the Common Core State Standards • Focus on text complexity • Address reading and writing across the curriculum • Emphasize analysis of informational text • Focus on writing arguments and drawing evidence from sources • Emphasize participating in collaborative conversation • Integrate media sources across standards

  24. Emphasis on Text Complexity • Reading standards place equal emphasis on the sophistication of what students read and the skill with which they read • Standard 10 defines a grade-by-grade “staircase” of increasing text complexity that rises from beginning reading to the college and career readiness level

  25. Emphasis on Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum Writing, Grade 5 9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. • Apply grade 5 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or a drama, drawing on specific details in the text [e.g., how characters interact]”). • Apply grade 5 Reading standards to informational texts (e.g., “Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point[s]”).

  26. Emphasis on Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum Writing, Grades 9-10 English Language Arts 9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. • Apply grades 9–10 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work [e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare]”). • Apply grades 9–10 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., “Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning”). History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects 9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

  27. Emphasis on Informational Text • The Standards aim to align instruction with this National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) framework • Percentages do not imply that high school ELA teachers must teach 70% informational text; they demand instead that a great deal of reading should occur in other disciplines

  28. Emphasis on Writing Arguments and Drawing Evidence From Sources Writing, Grade 7 1. Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. • Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically. • Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text. • Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence. • Establish and maintain a formal style. • Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.

  29. Emphasis on Collaborative Conversations Speaking and Listening, Grade 5 1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. • Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion. • Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and carry out assigned roles. • Pose and respond to specific questions by making comments that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others. • Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions.

  30. Emphasis on Integrating Media Sources Grade 6 Examples Across the Strands Reading Standards for Informational Text 7. Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue. Writing Standards 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting. Speaking and Listening Standards 5. Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.

  31. Not Included in California’s Common Core Content Standards • Introduction • College and Career Readiness Standards • ELA Appendices • Appendix A: Research Supporting Key Elements of the Standards • Appendix B: Illustrative Texts • Exemplars illustrating the complexity, quality, and range of reading appropriate for various grade levels • Appendix C: Samples of Student Writing • Annotated writing samples demonstrating adequate performance at various grade levels

  32. Wrap-Up and Questions • Websites • Common Core State Standards www.corestandards.org • California’s Common Core Content Standards www.scoe.net/castandards

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