The common core has several instructional shifts
that teachers and teacher leaders will need to grapple with in the coming
years. The goal of the Common Core is to prepare our students to be successful
college students and members of our democratic society by emphasizing critical
thinking.
1. Increase in the amount of nonfiction text
used throughout the day
2. Increased depth of knowledge: Students are expected to “comprehend as well as
critique,” “value evidence,” “adapt their communication in relation to
audience, task, purpose, and discipline,” and “construct effective arguments
and convey intricate or multifaceted information” (p. 7).
3. Increase in the text complexity used in K-12 education (see Appendix A: http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_A.pdf)
4. More tier-2 vocabulary instruction
5. Increasing
persuasive and explanatory writing coupled with decreasing the amount of
narrative writing
6. Including literature from diverse cultures, traditional
literature, poetry, and drama
7. Approaching literacy in an interdisciplinary
manner
8. Integrating media literacy throughout the curriculum
9. Focusing on the
oral aspect of presenting knowledge
10. Integrating writing convention mastery
into literacy instruction
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