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Recommendations Related to CCSS
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In the Best Interest of Students: Staying True to What Works in the ELA Classroom -- Kelly Gallagher (2015)
"In his new book, In the Best Interest of Students, Kelly Gallagher notes that there are real strengths in the Common Core standards, and there are significant weaknesses as well. He takes the long view, reminding us that standards come and go but what remains constant is the need to stay true to what we know works in the teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening. Instead of blindly adhering to the latest standards movement, Kelly advocates:
  • Dialing up the amount of reading and writing students are doing.
  • Balancing rigorous, high-quality literature and non-fiction with high-interest, student-selected titles.
  • Giving students much more choice when it comes to reading and writing activities.
  • Encouraging readers to deepen their comprehension by moving beyond the "four corners of the text."
  • Using modeling to enrich students' writing skills in the prewriting, drafting, and revision stages.
  • Helping young writers to achieve more authenticity through the blending of genres.
  • Resisting the de-emphasis of narrative and imaginative reading and writing.
  • Planning lessons that move beyond Common Core expectations.
  • Providing students with more opportunities to sharpen their listening and speaking skills" 
                                                                                       --Stenhouse product description

Common Core CPR: What About the Adolescents Who Struggle or Just Don't Care?
ReLeah Cossett Lent and Barry Gilmore
"Releah Lent and Barry Gilmore embrace what is best about the standards—their emphasis on active, authentic learning—and then explicitly show teachers how to connect these ideal outcomes to practical classroom strategies, detailing the day-to-day teaching that can coax reluctant learners into engagement and achievement. You’ll learn how to: 
  • Consider choice and relevance in every assignment
  • Plan and spot opportunities for success
  • Scaffold students’ comprehension of complex fiction and nonfiction texts
  • Model close reading through thoughtful questioning
  • Teach students to use evidence in reading, writing, speaking, and reflection
 It’s not the big sweeping formulas for achievement that will win the day; it’s the incremental growth that teachers need to make happen: that one book, that one writing assignment, to help a student turn a corner. “If we can get that one transformational moment to occur, and follow it up by designing more opportunities for success, that’s the ideal,” say Lent and Gilmore."  -- Corwin product description


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