Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, Grades 6-12
15 Must-Have Skills Every Student Needs to Achieve
- Jim Burke - Burlingame High School, Burlingame, CA
- Barry Gilmore - Hutchison School, Memphis, TN
Corwin Literacy
Content Literacy (K-12) | English/Language Arts Common Core | Writing (Middle/High School)
Analyze, argue, compare/contrast, describe, determine, develop, evaluate, explain, imagine, integrate, interpret, organize, summarize, support, and transform . . .
Can a mere fifteen words turn today’s youth into the innovative, ambitious thinkers we need? Yes, contend Jim Burke and Barry Gilmore, coauthors of Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, because these are the moves that make the mind work and students must learn if they’re to achieve academically. It’s that simple.
Or is it? To arrive at these fifteen critical reading, writing, and thinking processes, Jim and Barry combed through the standards, research, and secondary curriculum—and that’s for starters. Then, for each of these powerhouse processes, they developed a lesson structure, assignments, and activities so you can teach with potency, right away, and immediately cultivate in students discipline-specific habits of mind.
Here’s the best part yet: Jim and Barry distill each intellectual process into a potent concision that nevertheless spans subject areas:
- Before, during, and after sections offer essential questions, lesson ideas, and activities to assist you in instruction.
- Two sample student pieces illustrate not only what to look for but the process for getting there.
- Culminating tasks include producing an analytic essay, visual text, argument, narrative and informational writing, poetry, descriptive science writing, and explanatory writing in math.
- Every chapter has a correlation chart to Webb’s Depth of Knowledge to deepen understanding and a reproducible rubric to aid in assessment.
At the end of the day, what we want is for our students to know how to think at high levels in any discipline in school or any arena in life. In Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, Jim and Barry translate these processes into remarkable instructional protocols. Use the book and you’ll know for yourself what a revolution they’ve created.
I. The Other Words |
II. Academic Writing Moves |
III. Working With the Words Across Disciplines |
IV. Academic Moves: Etymology |
V. Teaching by Design Using Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Model |
VI. Standards Correlation Chart (Texas, Florida, Indiana, and Virginia) |
VII. Anchor Charts |
VIII. Graphic Organizers |
Free resources
The A-List: Essential Academic Words
You can post this list of essential academic words, found in Academic Moves, along with their definitions in your classroom or give a copy to every student. (Secondary)
This book has been adopted to be in our methods course library for English education majors, and was purchased and paid for by our Race to the Top Grant (RTTT3) in January 2016 (one copy).
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Sample Materials & Chapters
See how these moves appear again and again in TEKS.
The Walk Through breaks down the book's layout to highlight each feature
The first page of each chapter introduces the essential word.
Immediately useable lesson ideas and activities to guide instruction
Webb’s Depth of Knowledge demonstrates how to scaffold instruction
Planning Page for recording lesson objectives
Two student samples—one ELA and one across the disciplines—illustrate implementa
See how these moves appear again and again in Virginia’s Standards of Learning
See how these moves appear again and again in Florida’s Language Arts Standards.
See how these moves appear again and again in Indiana’s Academic Standards.