Shifting to the Common Core English/Language Arts (Grades 2-3)
Price: $29.95
Shifting to the Common Core provides teachers with classroom strategies and activities to help students achieve greater depths of knowledge, including how to . . .
- sort out what they read, see, and hear;
- judge information and test it for reliability;
- create effective writing.
Rubrics, standards correlations, and model responses help teachers assess students’ comprehension of these important deeper-thinking skills.
Students in grades 2–3 will learn to . . .
- use close-reading strategies to capture the meaning of complex texts;
- quickly outline complex texts, summarizing main points;
- cite textual evidence in a variety of forms;
- use STRAP questions to fully understand writing prompts;
- weigh the effectiveness of support;
- judge the use of literary devices;
- judge explanatory, narrative, and persuasive writing
- use information from a source to build meaning;
- create effective informational, narrative, and persuasive writing;
- write effective responses to on-demand prompts.
By developing these deeper-thinking skills, students improve their comprehension across the curriculum, raise their grades, and increase their success on Common Core assessments.