Common+Core

=Understanding the Common Core Standards = Learn all about the Common Core State Standards at the main website []

[|Achieve the Core] is the website being used by many Connecticut school systems, including New Haven.

Here is [|Connecticut's list of resources] for World Language Teachers on the Common Core.

The English Language arts standards can be found [|here.]If you teach K-8, take a look at the grade 3 Reading and the grade 3 Speaking and Listening sections for instant ideas on what we can do in world language classes.

Here is a great website on what close reading looks like in the classroom. []

Look through this list of free resources for teaching the Common Core ELA standards in third grade to get ideas for activities you can do in LCTL classes [].

Follow Linda Murphy on Pinterest where she collects free resources for teaching to the Common Core []

TRY OUT the SmarterBalanced Assessments for ELA Literacy [|here.]

=Argumentative Writing and Debating =

Here is Achieve the Core's page on [|writing through the grades], with scored examples of argumentative writing.

This is a nice, easy to read explanation of[| Argument Writing] (in comparison to persuasive writing) from the South Nevada Regional PD Program.

Here are some sentence starters for encouraging students to debate, cite evidence and begin to write argumentative essays in WL Classes. Here is a chart version in case you want to fill in the target language:

Common-Core Related Instructional Strategies in Grades 6-12 (Mia Breuler, Kristi Shanahan, Jessica Haxhi)
Here are most of the slides (some have been eliminated due to copyright issues with pictures, etc.)

French example shown at the presentation in one document: 

This is the "Question Types" document that we mentioned often during the reading strand at COLT. Use this as a guide when you are creating English questions for longer readings/listenings in the target language. Trudy and Fatima presented about these at the CIA meetings.

Knowledge rating scale - see below Word Sort Slides - see below = = =More on CCSS and World Languages= Read [|this explanatory article] about the relationships between the Common Core Framework and World Languages.

[|Here is] ACTFL's page on the Common Core State Standards.

This created by Paul Sandrock utlines the relationship between world language and the Common Core and give lots of practical ideas for strategy instruction that support CCSS. Wow!

The ACTFL Crosswalk outlining how the Standards for Foreign Language Learning Align with the Common Core State Standards can be found [|here.]

P aul Sandrock discusses how world language classes support the Common Core in his October 2012 article (scroll down to it) in the NCLRC Newsletter at [|http://nclrc.org/about_teaching/topics/feature.html#new]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">[|NYSAFLT] created a page with resources on the Common Core for New York teachers and others.

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=Using the Knowledge Rating Scale in World Language Classrooms:= Download the PPT here to print.

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Looking for cognates is also a great strategy!


=Using the Frayer Model in World Language Classrooms= Download this PPT to use the Frayer Model to reinforce grammar concepts!!



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