English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical

Subjects

Today you will identify the Key Considerations of the Montana Common Core Standards (MCCS)

Recognize the Key Features of MCCS Familiarize yourself with new vocabulary of the

MCCS Examine MCCS at grade level Explore the shifts that occur within the English

Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects of the MCCS.

Outcomes

College and Career Ready and grade-specific standards Grade levels for K–8; grade bands for 9–10 and 11–12 An integrated model of literacy Research and media skills blended into the Standards

as a whole Integration of American Indian Education For All Shared responsibility for students’ literacy development A focus on the results rather than means

Key Design Considerations

Shared responsibility for students’ literacy development

Key Design Considerationsof Montana Common Core Standards

A focus on the results rather than means By emphasizing required achievements, the Standards leave room

for teachers, curriculum developers, and states to determine how those goals should be reached and what additional topics should be addressed.

Teachers are thus free to provide students with whatever tools and knowledge their professional judgment and experience identify as most helpful for meeting the goals set out in the Standards. Montana teachers can use American Indian topics, resources, and literature to meet standards, even where Indian Education for All is not specifically mentioned.

Key Design Considerationsof Montana Common Core Standards

StrandTopics

Standard Statement

Strands Reading

◦ Literature and◦ Informational Text

Writing

Speaking and Listening

Language

Key Features of the Montana Common Core Standards

College and Career Ready Anchor Standards

Montana Common Core Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy

K-5 Content StandardsAnchor Standards Reading, Writing,

Speaking and listening, Language Strands

6-12 Content Standards

6-8, 9-10, 11-12Literacy in History/Social

Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

Anchor StandardsReading, Writing

Strands

Anchor Standards Reading, Writing,

Speaking and listening, Language

Strands

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Shifts in English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects

English Language Arts and Literacy Shifts

http://www.youtube.com/user/TeachingChannel?blend=3&ob=5#p/u/12/RmLElb7yHDU

The Shifts 1. K-5 Balancing Informational and Literary

Texts

Students read a true balance of informational and literary texts. Elementary school classrooms are places where students access the world – science, social studies, the arts and literature – through text. At least 50 percent of what students read is informational.

Montana Common Core StandardsEnglish Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

The Shifts 2. 6-12 Knowledge in the Content Areas

Content area teachers outside of the ELA classroom emphasize literacy experiences in their planning and instruction. Students learn through domain-specific texts in science and social studies classrooms, rather than referring to the text, they are expected to learn from what they read.


Building Knowledge in the Disciplines

Shifts in ELA by EngageNY

http://vimeo.com/27074735



The Shifts 3. Staircase of Complexity

In order to prepare students for the complexity of college and career-ready texts, each grade level requires a “step” of growth on the “staircase.” Students read the central, grade-appropriate text around which instruction is centered. Teachers are patient; they create more time and space in the curriculum for this close and careful reading, and provide appropriate and necessary scaffolding and supports so the text is possible for students reading below grade level to read.


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The Shifts 4. Text-based Answers

Students have rich and rigorous conversations which are dependent on all students reading a common text. Teachers insist that classroom experiences stay deeply connected to the text and that students develop habits for making evidentiary arguments based on the text both in conversation as well as in writing, to assess their comprehension of a text.


The Shifts 5. Writing from Sources

Writing needs to emphasize use of evidence to inform or make an argument rather than the personal narrative and other forms of decontextualized prompts. While the narrative still has an important role, students develop skills through written arguments that respond to the ideas, events, facts and arguments presented in the texts they read.


The Shifts 6. Academic Vocabulary

Students constantly build the vocabulary they need to be able to access grade-level complex texts. By focusing strategically on comprehension of pivotal and commonly found words (such as “discourse,” “generation,” “theory,” and “principled”) teachers constantly build students’ ability to access more complex texts across the content areas.


Today you will identify the Key Considerations of the Montana Common Core Standards (MCCS)

Recognize the Key Features of MCCS Familiarize yourself with new vocabulary of the

MCCS Examine MCCS at grade level Explore the shifts that occur within the English

Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects of the MCCS.

Outcomes

Documents

English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects