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The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 6-8

What They Say, What They Mean, How to Teach Them

By: Jim Burke

Don’t spend another minute poring over the standards. Focus instead on how to teach them, using The Common Core Companion as your one-stop guide across subjects.
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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781452276038
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: Corwin Literacy
  • Year: 2013
  • Page Count: 280
  • Publication date: August 30, 2013

Price: $39.95

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That version of the standards you wish you had

All over the nation, teachers and administrators are poring over the Common Core State Standards to come up with meaningful plans for raising student achievement.  But as clear as the standards are, they are more of a sundial than a GPS for pinpointing just what to teach and how to teach it.

Enter Jim Burke with The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 6-8. It’s that version of the standards you wish you had: a roadmap of what each standard says, what each standard means, and how precisely to put that standard into day-to-day practice across English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.

Designed to provide schools, districts, and departments with a common language or set of reference points for effective school-wide implementation, The Common Core Companion clearly lays out:

  • Grades 6-8 standards side by side with key distinctions highlighted so teachers know what they must teach from grade to grade
  • All the different content-area versions of each standard arranged on one page to facilitate easy reference and school wide collaboration
  • Explanations of each standard on a corresponding page, written in accessible language, along with prompts and questions to help students learn and apply each standard
  • Essential content to cover and lesson ideas for modeling the literacy skills behind the standards
  • Instructional techniques for each standard based on Jim’s extensive teaching experience and current research on effective instruction
  • Complete glossary for each standard and adaptations for ELL students

Don’t spend another minute poring over the standards. Jim has already done that for you. Focus instead on how to teach them, using The Common Core Companion as your one-stop guide for teaching, planning, assessing, collaborating, and designing powerful reading and writing curricula.

“One cannot benefit from or use a document that demands more time than a teacher or administrator has each day. So I share with you, my fellow educators, the reformatted, parallel version of the standards I created to make the document itself more efficient, more usable, more helpful.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                         -—Jim Burke


Take a quick tour of The Common Core Companion
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Jim Burke

A longtime English teacher, Jim Burke is the author of more than 20 books and senior consultant for the Holt McDougal Literature program. Jim has received several awards, including the 2000 NCTE Exemplary English Leadership Award. In 2009, he created the English Companion Ning—the largest online community of English teachers in the world. More recently, Jim has served on the AP English Course and Exam Review Commission and the PARCC Consortium.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments


Introduction: Getting to the Core of the Curriculum


     Moving Forward--Together

     A Brief Orientation to The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 6-8

     How to Use This Book

     Accepting the Invitation

Quick Reference: Common Core State Standards, 6-12 English Language Arts


Quick Reference: Common Core State Standards, 6-12 English Language Arts in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects


The Complete Common Core State Standards: Decoded


Part 1. Reading

     Key Ideas and Details

     Craft and Structure

     Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

     Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Part 2. Writing

     Text Types and Purposes

     Production and Distribution of Writing

     Research to Build and Present Knowledge

     Range of Writing

Part 3. Speaking and Listening

     Comprehension and Collaboration

     Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

Part 4. Language

     Conventions of Standard English

     Knowledge of Language

     Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Resources


     Resource A. Common Core Recommended Reading Lists

     Resource B. Text Complexity Tool

     Resource C. Planning Calendar Templates

Teacher Notes


About the Author


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