Throughout this curriculum guide, teachers will see high-quality texts that students should be reading, as well as some resources and tasks to support teachers in ensuring that students are able to reach the demands of the standards in the classroom. In addition to the resources embedded in the map, there are some high-leverage resources around each of the three shifts that teachers should consistently access: The TNCore Literacy Standards The TNCore Literacy Standards (also known as the Teachers can access the TNCore standards, which are featured throughout this College and Career Ready Literacy Standards): curriculum map and represent college and career ready student learning at each http://www.tncore.org/english_language_arts.as respective grade level. px Shift 1: Regular Practice with Complex Text and its Academic Language Student Achievement Partners Text Complexity Teachers can learn more about how to select complex texts (using quantitative, Collection: qualitative, and reader/task measures) using the resources in this collection. http://achievethecore.org/page/642/text- complexity-collection Student Achievement Partners Academic Work Teachers can copy and paste a text into this tool, which then generates the most Finder: word-finder significant Tier 2 academic vocabulary contained within the text. Shift 2: Reading, Writing and Speaking Grounded in Evidence from the Text Student Achievement Partners Text-Dependent Teachers can use the resources in this set of resources to craft their own text- Questions Resources: dependent questions based on their qualitative and reader/task measures text complexity analysis. Shift 3: Building Knowledge through Content-Rich Non-fiction Student Achievement Partners Text Set Projects Teachers can use this resource to learn about how to sequence texts into “expert Sequenced: to build student knowledge of the world. packs” project-sequenced-under-construction
Throughout this curriculum guide, teachers will see high-quality texts that students should be reading, as well as some resources and tasks to support teachers in ensuring that students are able to reach the demands of the standards in the classroom. In addition to the resources embedded in the map, there are some high-leverage resources around each of the three shifts that teachers should consistently access: The TNCore Literacy Standards The TNCore Literacy Standards (also known as the College and Career Ready Literacy Standards): http://www.tncore.org/english_language_arts.as px Teachers can access the TNCore standards, which are featured throughout this curriculum map and represent college and career ready student learning at each respective grade level. Shift 1: Regular Practice with Complex Text and its Academic Language Student Achievement Partners Text Complexity Collection: http://achievethecore.org/page/642/text- complexity-collection Teachers can learn more about how to select complex texts (using quantitative, qualitative, and reader/task measures) using the resources in this collection. Student Achievement Partners Academic Work Finder: word-finder Teachers can copy and paste a text into this tool, which then generates the most significant Tier 2 academic vocabulary contained within the text. Shift 2: Reading, Writing and Speaking Grounded in Evidence from the Text Student Achievement Partners Text-Dependent Questions Resources: Teachers can use the resources in this set of resources to craft their own text- dependent questions based on their qualitative and reader/task measures text complexity analysis. Shift 3: Building Knowledge through Content-Rich Non-fiction Student Achievement Partners Text Set Projects Sequenced: project-sequenced-under-construction Teachers can use this resource to learn about how to sequence texts into “expert packs” to build student knowledge of the world.
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