CORE ACADEMY 2013
GRADE BAND 4-5
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UTAH CORE STANDARDS
• The Standards for English Language Arts K-5
• Anchor Standards
• Progression from grade to grade
• The Appendices for the Standards
Tab Critical pages!
LITERACY INTENDED LEARNING
OUTCOMES
• Turn to page 7 in the core.
• Read paragraph 1 “They Demonstrate
Independence”
• Underline key phrases that describe what students
will be doing
• Share with your neighbor the three you feel are
most important and discuss whether or not you
agree
CLOSE READING
• Standards, page 12
• “Close Reading in Elementary Classrooms”
• Read pages 179-182
• Prepare to summarize your section for your reading
partners.
• Underline key words and phrases that provide information
about what students should be doing the first time they
read a text.
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182-Modifying Close Reading – Frontloading
182-184 Frontloading
184-186 Text Dependent Questions
186-end of the article
INSTRUCTIONAL SHIFTS IN THE NEW
STANDARDS
1. Building knowledge through content-rich
nonfiction
2. Reading, writing and speaking grounded in
evidence from text, both literary and informational
3. Regular practice with complex text and its
academic language
FRONTLOADING
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More instructional time spent outside the text means
less time inside the text.
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Departing from the text in classroom discussion
privileges only those who already have experience
with the topic.
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It is easier to talk about our experiences than to
analyze the text—especially for students reluctant
to engage with reading.
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The Utah Core Standards are College and Career
Readiness Standards.
THREE TYPES OF TEXT-DEPENDENT
QUESTIONS
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Questions that assess themes and central
ideas
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Questions that assess knowledge of
vocabulary, meaning, and structure
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Questions that assess understanding of the
author’s claims/argument or relationship to
another text
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NON-EXAMPLES AND EXAMPLES
Not Text-Dependent
Text-Dependent
In “Casey at the Bat,” Casey
strikes out. Describe a time when
you failed at something.
What makes Casey’s experiences
at bat humorous?
In “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,”
Dr. King discusses nonviolent
protest. Discuss, in writing, a time
when you wanted to fight against
something that you felt was unfair.
What can you infer from King’s
letter about the letter that he
received?
In “The Gettysburg Address”
Lincoln says the nation is
dedicated to the proposition that
all men are created equal. Why is
equality an important value to
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promote?
“The Gettysburg Address”
mentions the year 1776.
According to Lincoln’s speech,
why is this year significant to the
events described in the speech?
CHARLIE MCBUTTON
CREATING TEXT-DEPENDENT
QUESTIONS
Step One:
Step Two:
Identify the core understandings and key
ideas of the text.
Start with level 1 questions that target specific
content and details to build confidence.
Step
Three:
Move to level 2 questions. Target vocabulary
and text structure: have students think about
how the information is conveyed.
Step Four:
Ask them level 3 questions: what does the
author want you to believe, how do you know
that, and is there evidence?
Create the culminating assessment.
Step Five:
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