California Common Core Standards
What are they and how can we implement them in World Language Classrooms?
Here's an article from Education Week that gives an overview of how the Common Core Standards with impact teaching and learning: Guide to the Common Core key expectations
Click here for a PDF of the California Common Core Standards in Literacy. There are 4 categories in each grade division (K-5, 6-12)
Grades K-5: Reading (pp. 1-6), Writing (pp. 7-9), Speaking/Listening (pp. 10-11), Language (pp. 12-15). Page 16 includes a chart showing the progression of language skill development and the range of text types for K-5; page 17 gives examples of literature and informational texts for K-5; page 18 gives a sample of systematically building knowledge of a topic (human body) across the grades (K-5).
Grades 6-12: Reading (pp. 19-22), Writing (pp. 23-27), Speaking/Listening (pp. 28-29), Language (pp. 30-32). Page 33 includes a chart showing the progression of language skill development and the range of text types for 6-12; page 34 gives examples of literature and informational texts for 6-12. Reading and Writing Standards for History/Social Science, Science, and Technical Subjects: pages 35 - 38.
The Complete Documents to download
CCSSI_ELA Standards.pdf
CCSSI_Math Standards.pdf
Articles of Interest on CCSS
Where World Languages and the Common Core Intersect - Global Learning - Education Week.pdf
Rethinking Literacy Educ Weekly.pdf
P21CommonCoreToolkit.pdf
Common Core Key Expectations
By Tom Vander Ark on September 7, 2012
Estàndares educativos comunes
Link to some resources in Spanish to help parents understand the CCSS
10 Resources For Implementing The Common Core
07/25/2012, Heather Edick @Teach Thought Blog site
50 Common Core Resources For Teachers
11/28/2012, TeachThought Staff @Teach Thought Blog Site
The Most Significant Change Of Common Core Adoption
02/04/2013, Terry Heick @Teach Though Blog Site
Important Links on CCSS
Resources on the Ca Dept of Education site
Common Core Central
Common Core State Standards Initiative Site
CA Common Core Standards
Core Connection @ASCD
An Article on Wikipedia
Video Playlist on EdCanvas
Rethinking Literacy in the CCSS a free digital edition from Education Weekly to download
Sample Assessments on the Smarter Balanced website
The Teaching Channel Videos to learn about CCSS
Achieve the Core Site Professional Development for Teachers
For World Languages
EdWeek Where World Languages and the Common Core Intersect.pdf
CCSS WL correlations.pdf
For ELD
Policy Brief: How Next-Generation Standards and Assessments can Foster Success for California ELLs
by Robert Linquanti, WestEd, and Kenji Hakuta, Stanford University
Common Core Challenges for ELLs
By Rhoda Coleman and Claude Goldenberg
Standards that Affect ELLs
By: Diane Staehr Fenner and John Segota (2012) on Colorín Colorado's website
also see this page: CCSS for ELLs
Common Core 101
By: Susan Lafond (2012), on Colorín Colorado's website
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