English Language Arts and Literacy in
History/Social Studies, Science , and
Technical Subjects
Presentation designed by Debby Murphy
Independent Literacy Consultant from the ELA CCSS www.corestandards.org

A
Assessment, targeted
• Formative
• Summative
• SMARTER Balanced Assessment
Consortium
• PARCC—Partnership for
Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers

B
Build a range of text

C
Comprehension deep

Differentiation is making sure that the right students get the right learning tasks at the right time. Once you have a sense of what each student holds as ‘given’ or ‘known’ and what he or she needs in order to learn, differentiation is no longer an option; it is an obvious response.
Earl, L.M., 2003
D
Differentiation

E
Evidence from text

F
Foundational skills
• Print concepts K-1
• Phonological awareness K-1
• Phonics and word recognition K-5
• Fluency K-5

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• On your spot on the team “placemat, individually, you have one minute to jot down at least two big ideas that you have heard so far about the ELA CCSS.
• Come to consensus in the center of your chart. What are the two ideas that have the most significance for positioning our product for your customers?

I Do
Modeled
G
Gradual release of responsibility
We Do
Shared/
Interactive
You Do
Independent
You Try
Guided

H
Higher-level thinking skills

I
Intertextuality

J
Justify/refute
K
Key ideas and themes

L
Literacy links
M
Mesh speaking/listening and language

Description/Enumeration
Chronological/Sequencing
Compare/Contrast
Cause/Effect
Problem/Solution
Propaganda (Position) /Support (Reason, Argument)
N
Note the text structure

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• On your spot on the team “placemat, individually, you have one minute to jot down at least two more big ideas that you have heard about the ELA CCSS.
• Come to consensus in the center of your chart. What are two new ideas that have the most significance for positioning our product for your customers?

O
On-level performance
P
Performance-based tasks

ELA CCSA Performance Assessment Examples
• Students
Otfinoski’s interpret the visual chart that accompanies Steve
The Kid’s Guide to Money: Earning It, Saving It,
Spending It, Growing It, Sharing It and explain how the information found within it contributes to an understanding of how to create a budget. [RI.4.7]
• Students identify the overall structure of ideas, concepts, and information in Seymour Simon’s Horses (based on factors such as their speed and color) and compare and contrast that scheme to the one employed by Patricia
Lauber in her book
[RI.5.5]
Hurricanes: Earth’s Mightiest Storms .
• Students determine the point of view
“Letter on Thomas Jefferson” and of John Adams in his analyze how he distinguishes his position from an alternative approach articulated by Thomas Jefferson. [RI.7.6]

Q
Question and respond

R
Readiness for college/ career
S
Solid strategies

T
Talk, talk, and talk some more
U
Understand, critique

V
Vocabulary
General — family, glad, walk Academic — greedy, hardship, exuberant
Content-specific — photosynthesis, sonata, feudal system

W
Write a range of texts

X
Complexity of text
1. Qualitative
2. Quantitative
3. Matching reader to text and task

Y
Yes, we have this covered!
Z
Zero in on 21 st century literacy

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• On your spot on the team “placemat, individually, you have one minute to jot down at least two more big ideas that you have heard about the ELA CCSS.
• Come to consensus in the center of your chart. What are the last two new ideas that have the most significance for positioning our product for your customers?

Reflections
Top three blocks to build our foundation…
1. ____________________
2. ____________________
3. ____________________

Question…
I just bought all the titles listed in the
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Question…

Question…
I am looking for something that I can purchase that will provide strong nonfiction text for my teachers to use in small group instruction. I need it to also have different levels of text to meet the needs of multiple students as well as targeted instructional plans based on good pedagogy . It would be terrific if it had a writing connection, too. What do you think?

Question…
There will be new monies for Race to the Top for early literacy. Any product would need to incorporate standards that support the kindergarten/first grade CCSS.
There would also need to be an assessment component. Do you have anything that fit my needs?

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes