Literacy and the Common Core: Reflecting on the Research
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1:17 | What area of the common core literacy standards most interests or confuses you? Incorporating literacy instruction in multiple disciplines. ( 28% ) ( 24% ) ( 16% ) ( 4% ) ( 21% ) ( 7% ) Tuesday November 27, 2012 1:17 |
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2:26 | Which one of the following has become one of the most common new reading policies in states implementing the common core? A) Mandatory tutoring for any student who shows lower-than-average growth in comprehension skills. ( 6% ) ( 88% ) ( 4% ) ( 2% ) Tuesday November 27, 2012 2:26 |
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Literacy and the Common Core: Reflecting on the Research
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, 2 to 3 p.m. ETThe Common Core State Standards crystallize new ways of looking at how students read in the digital age. The standards draw on research about the different ways students read narrative and informational text, different types of writing in different disciplines, and the importance of working with texts of varied complexity and difficulty.
However, the common core deliberately leaves out specific instructional strategies to help students meet those standards, and researchers say they will have to hustle to develop best practices for teachers. Our guests—one a researcher on the committee that helped develop the literacy standards, the other leading a group to help teachers implement them—talked about the research behind the standards, and how to make sense of the changing literacy landscape.
Timothy Shanahan, director of the Center for Literacy and chairman of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Related Stories:
- • Rethinking Literacy: Reading in the Common-Core Era (November 13, 2012)
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