What are the expectations for students with the Common Core State Standards?Students who are college and career ready can…With rigorous expectations:•Think deeply

• Students need to analyze, discuss, evaluate, justify, and explain their thinking MORE and with deeper understanding

•Integrate learning• Students need to be able to apply what is learned in

one discipline to another, being flexible thinkers•Show how they know

• Students need to explain their thinking, providing proof & evidence

(Jones & Duty, 2013)

What does this look like for my writer?

Writers can think deeply, integrate learning, and show how they know through 3 types of writing: narrative, informative/explanatory, and opinion.

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What does this look like for my reader?

Readers can think deeply, integrate learning, and show how they know with literature and informational text.

Image:Claire Llewellyn (Amazon)

Great conversation leads to great knowledge:

•What does the word flexible mean?•I wonder why the author wrote this book.•What did you learn from the diagram?

What does this look like for my mathematician?

Mathematician’s can think deeply, integrate learning, and show how they know by representing problems in drawings, equations and words.

Mathematicians should be able to:• Explain how they solved a problem

• Be fluent with their facts

• Use the RDWW process for solving word problems-

Read, Draw, Write an equation,

Write a word sentence

How can I support my child?

• Strive for 20 minutes of reading a night

• Be a model writer for your child

• Point out ways you use math in everyday life

• Explore technology