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Focusing on students who need support and practice in comprehending and learning from complex texts, communicating complex ideas, and engaging in authentic conversations about content, this guide identifies seven research-based practices for teaching the academic language and disciplinary literacy skills of the Common Core State Standards across grade levels and disciplines. It describes the practices of using complex texts; fortifying complex output by increasing the quantity and quality of oral, written, and multimedia messages; fostering academic interactions; clarifying and modeling complex language; guiding complex language learning; and designing instruction, along with classroom and lesson examples. It ends with ideas for fostering professional development and system-wide capacity through coaching and collaboration. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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The Common Core State Standards require students to do more with knowledge and language than ever before. Rather than be mere consumers of knowledge, students must now become creators, critics, and communicators of ideas across disciplines. Yet in order to take on these new and exciting roles, many students need daily teaching with an extra emphasis on accelerating their academic communication skills.Common Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms: Essential Practices for Developing Academic Language and Disciplinary Literacy describes seven research-based teaching practices for developing complex language and literacy skills across grade levels and disciplines: using complex texts, fortifying complex output, fostering academic interaction, clarifying complex language, modeling, guiding, and designing instruction. Most important, you will find clear descriptions and examples of how these essential practices can—and should—be woven together in real lessons. The book:Clarifies how to support the learning of complex language that students need for reaching Common Core and other standardsProvides practical ways to realize the instructional shifts needed with the implementation of new standards in diverse classroomsIncludes frameworks and descriptions on how to develop students' complex language, speaking, and writingHelps maximize strategies and tools for building system-wide capacity for sustained growth in the practicesCommon Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms is a concise guide for helping us improve our practices to strengthen two vital pillars that support student learning: academic language and disciplinary literacy.
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