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Focus on Text - Tackling the Common Core Reading Standards, Grades 4-8 (Hardcover)
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Focus on Text - Tackling the Common Core Reading Standards, Grades 4-8 (Hardcover)
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As schools shift to the Common Core, many English language arts
teachers are left with questions about how their classrooms should
look. Is fiction out? Can I still do strategy instruction? Does
close reading mean deliberating on each word? Finally, there's a
resource with all of these answers and more. In Focus on Text,
bestselling author Amy Benjamin provides practical guidance on how
to realistically implement the Common Core reading standards. Part
I of the book examines misconceptions about the standards and
what's really required. It also takes you inside classrooms to see
how teachers are modifying their instruction. Part II tackles each
reading standard for grades 4-8. You'll learn how to teach the
standards with literary and informational texts and how to use them
as a springboard for instruction in writing, language, speaking,
and listening. Topics include... * Defining close reading and how
is it different from word-by-word reading. When and how do students
need to go over a text meticulously? * How to use scaffolding
through background knowledge to help students with challenging
texts * The best instructional practices to help students increase
their range of reading and level of text complexity * Ideas for
teaching key concepts such as text structure, point of view, theme,
stated and implied meanings, and the progression of ideas and
characters * Tweaking your assessments to better align with the
Common Core--how to create reading check quizzes, unit tests, and
cold reading tests to see if students are growing as readers. * And
much, much more! Throughout the book, you'll find teaching tips and
practical resources to use with students, such as question starters
and sentence stems. You'll also get a wide variety of classroom
examples at different grade levels and with different texts.
Whether you're experienced with the Common Core or just getting
started, this book will give you exciting new ideas for making them
work in your own classroom so your students grow as readers!
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