Focus on text : tackling the common core reading standards, grades 4-8 / / Amy Benjamin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786533203321
• Autore: Benjamin Amy <1951->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-317-82081-9; 0-415-73343-X; 1-315-81975-9; 1-317-82082-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (159 p.)
• Classificazione: EDU025000EDU000000EDU029050
• Disciplina: 372.6/044; 372.6044
• Soggetti: Language arts (Elementary) - Curricula - United States; Language arts (Elementary) - Standards - United States; Language arts (Middle school) - Curricula - United States; Language arts (Middle school) - Standards - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Meet the Author; Introduction; Part One How the Reading Standards Are Being Implemented; 1 Inside Classrooms: How Exactly Has the Common Core Been Changing America's Classrooms?; 2 Text Complexity and Readability Measurements; 3 On Babies and Bathwater: Correcting Misunderstandings about the Common Core; 4 Assessments for the Reading Standards; Part Two A Close Look at Teaching Each of the Reading Standards; 5 The Need for Phonics Instruction with Academic Reading; 6 Reading Standards 1-3: Key Ideas and Details; Standard 1; Standard 2; Standard 37 Reading Standards 4-6: Craft and Structure; Standard 4; Standard 5; Standard 6; 8 Reading Standards 7-9: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas; Standard 7; Standard 8; Standard 9; 9 Reading Standard 10: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity; Standard 10; Appendix A: The Reading Standards, Grade by Grade; Appendix B: The Other Literacy Standards; References
• Sommario/riassunto: 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