Created by:

Sarah McElrath

Gloria Klinger

Library Media Specialists
Grand Haven Area Public Schools

Overall Principles

Common Core Instructional Shifts

In ELA:

1. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts

2. Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text

3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary.

In Math

1. Conceptual understanding

2. Procedural skill and fluency

3. Application of skills in context
[http://achievethecore.org]

Common Core - Commonalities:

Process
Collaboration

Cross-Curricular

Evidence-Based
Real World Applications

Audience

ONE

The Reading Process

What's Changed?

Leading High-Level, Text-Based Discussions

Increasing Text Complexity

Leveling

Close Reading

Bloom's Taxonomy

Web 2.0 Reading Tools

Diigo,

MEL,

What do I read next?,

Goodreads, Destiny Quest, TeenReads, Reading Rewards

Readability-Score,

Google Translate,

VocabGrabber, OdoSketch, Quizlet

TWO

The Research Process

What's Changed?

Questioning
Finding Resources
Collecting / Curation
Evaluating websites/resources

Web 2.0 Research Tools

The Big Six,
EasyBib,
Curation - Scoop.it, Pinterest, Diigo, Blendspace
Twitter
MEL

Google Advanced Search

Diigo

“Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff”

Diigo is a social annotation service that lets users add highlights and notes to any web page. These overlayed comments can be made either public or private; other Diigo users can then read public comments and reply/interact to comments. Diigo combines aspects of social bookmarking, full-text search, annotations, tagging, and sharing.