Teaching Common Core English Language Arts Standards: 20 Lesson Frameworks for Elementary Grades - Softcover

Patricia M. Cunningham; James W. Cunningham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936763257 ISBN 13: 9781936763252

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2014

Synopsis

Ensure students develop proficiency in reading, speaking and listening, writing, and language. Explore 20 lesson frameworks to help teach the Common Core State Standards for English language arts. Discover targeted lessons to help students master critical skills, including how to organize ideas from informational texts, identify similarities and differences, scrutinize words to gain deeper meaning of readings, and write with grade-appropriate language.

Benefits:

• Pair the gradual release of responsibility model with several lesson frameworks that support the CCSS for English language arts.
• Access a variety of tools and resources to help students master the CCSS for English language arts.
• Support the CCSS for English language arts goals to improve students' reading comprehension, writing skills, and desire to read and write.
• Adopt or adjust the authors' lesson frameworks to suit the needs of your classroom, grade level, and curriculum.

Contents:
Chapter 1: Guess Yes or No
Chapter 2: Find It or Figure It Out
Chapter 3: Question It
Chapter 4: Gist
Chapter 5: Themes, Moral, and Lessons Learned
Chapter 6: Main Idea Tree
Chapter 7: Sequence/Cause and Effect
Chapter 8: Compare and Contrast
Chapter 9: Text Features Scavenger Hunt
Chapter 10: Preview-Predict-Confirm
Chapter 11: Point of View
Chapter 12: Poetry Aloud
Chapter 13: Plays Aloud
Chapter 14: Word Detectives
Chapter 15: Ten Important Words
Chapter 16: Be Your Own Editor
Chapter 17: What's Your Opinion?
Chapter 18: Teach Me
Chapter 19: Tell Me a Story
Chapter 20: You're the Expert!

About this title

About the Author

Patricia M. Cunningham, PhD, is a professor of education at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She has been an elementary school teacher, a reading specialist, and director of reading for a county school system.

Dr. Cunningham specializes in finding alternative ways to help struggling readers. She is author of Phonics They Use, What Really Matters in Spelling, What Really Matters in Writing, and What Really Matters in Vocabulary. She is coauthor of Classrooms That Work and Schools That Work.

She earned a master s degree in reading from Florida State University and a doctorate in reading from the University of Georgia.

James W. Cunningham, PhD, is a professor emeritus of literacy studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has taught at the elementary and secondary levels and served as a consultant with schools, districts, and other education agencies in twenty-five states.

Dr. Cunningham has written books, book chapters, research articles, professional articles, and scholarly reviews. He has spoken at many U.S. and international conferences. He was a member of the Text Complexity Committee for the Common Core State Standards for English language arts. He is a member of the Reading Hall of Fame.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1936763257
• ISBN 13: 9781936763252
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208