Common Core Videos -- English Language Arts & Literacy Standards

Instructional Shifts in ELA Standards

PreK - 5 Instructional Shift: 

50% Fiction and 50% Non-Fiction

Text Complexity and its Implications

6-12 Literary Non-Fiction

Text Complexity

6-12 Literacy in Other Disciplines

Text Dependent Analysis

As teachers and school librarians make plans for implementing the Common Core Standards in English Language Arts, and as public librarians look for ways to support their school colleagues, we wanted to draw your attention to new and recently updated CCBC bibliographies that we hope will be useful in this work.  

For Middle and High School:

--Got Text Complexity?  Selected Literature for Common Core Standards in English Language Arts (Grades 6-12): includes novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction:

http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=549

--Made for Each Other: Paired Texts for the Common Core Standards in English Language Arts: pairings and groupings of fiction and non-fiction books on various subjects and themes, designed to model one way non-fiction can be integrated into ELA classrooms:

http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=488

For K-5:

--Reading to Understand: Children's Books to Use with Comprehension Strategies:  this list maps books to area such as prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, etc.:

http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=201

--MORE Books for Beginning Readers:  this list is organized by text elements especially helpful to children learning to read, including rhythm and rhyme, repetition, picture clues, sight vocabulary, and more:

http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=506

We will be developing several other bibliographies specific to K-5 and the Common Core in the coming months.

In the meantime, we also have MANY other thematic and subject bibliographies on our web site, many of which include a range of fiction and non-fiction materials for K-12, including:

--updates of our 12 thematic "40 Books about..." bibliographies (all are now "50 Books about...)

--Global Reading (books set outside the United States

--Eco-Reading (environmental themes and topics) 

and many more.

See the complete list at:

http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailLists.asp?idBookListCat=7

Writing Shifts - To Inform, Explain and Argue

(using evidence)