Teaching Common Core English Language Arts Standards: 20 Lesson Frameworks for Elementary Grades

Ensure students develop proficiency in reading, speaking and listening, writing, and language. Explore 20 lesson frameworks to help teach the Common Core State Standards for English language arts. Discover targeted lessons to help students master critical skills, including how to organize ideas from informational texts, identify similarities and differences, scrutinize words to gain deeper meaning of readings, and write with grade-appropriate language.

Benefits:

• Pair the gradual release of responsibility model with several lesson frameworks that support the CCSS for English language arts.
• Access a variety of tools and resources to help students master the CCSS for English language arts.
• Support the CCSS for English language arts goals to improve students' reading comprehension, writing skills, and desire to read and write.
• Adopt or adjust the authors' lesson frameworks to suit the needs of your classroom, grade level, and curriculum.

Contents:
Chapter 1: Guess Yes or No
Chapter 2: Find It or Figure It Out
Chapter 3: Question It
Chapter 4: Gist
Chapter 5: Themes, Moral, and Lessons Learned
Chapter 6: Main Idea Tree
Chapter 7: Sequence/Cause and Effect
Chapter 8: Compare and Contrast
Chapter 9: Text Features Scavenger Hunt
Chapter 10: Preview-Predict-Confirm
Chapter 11: Point of View
Chapter 12: Poetry Aloud
Chapter 13: Plays Aloud
Chapter 14: Word Detectives
Chapter 15: Ten Important Words
Chapter 16: Be Your Own Editor
Chapter 17: What's Your Opinion?
Chapter 18: Teach Me
Chapter 19: Tell Me a Story
Chapter 20: You're the Expert!