Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, 6–12

Kathy Glass is a former teacher who consults and presents nationally with K-12 teachers and administrators at schools, districts, conferences, and county offices of education. She offers a blend of professional development (PD) topics to target audiences in areas affecting curriculum and instruction. To deliver customized PD, she assists educators with strategic planning to determine objectives. Then she tailors PD based on requested topics such as, but not limited to: · highlights of the ELA Common Core Standards· implementation of the ELA Common Core or other standards-based curriculum using a backward design approach· essential understandings and guiding questions to frame curriculum and instruction· differentiated tools and instructional strategies · pre-, formative, summative, and self-assessments · alignment of six-traits writing instruction and assessment to curriculum goals· unit and yearlong curriculum maps· text-dependent questions to facilitate close reading, and more. To help educators directly translate what she presents into effective classroom practice that impacts students, Kathy can provide a variety of PD opportunities (e.g., presentations, lesson demonstrations and modeling, coaching, collaborative unit design, etc.). She is the author of six books: Mapping Comprehensive Units to the English Language (ELA) Arts Common Core Standards, 6-12 (May, 2013); Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, K-5 (© 2012); Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9 (©2009); Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum (©2009); Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (©2007); and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics (©2005). In addition, Glass has served as a reader and reviewer for Reader’s Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning (2002, Great Source Education Group) and as a contributing writer and consultant for the Heath Middle Level Literature series (1995, DC Heath and Co). Website: www.kathyglassconsulting.com; email: kathy@kathyglassconsulting.com

• List of FiguresForewordAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorIntroductionChapter 1: Standards and KnowledgeThe Purpose of StandardsKey Areas of Emphasis in the ELA Common Core StandardsUnderstanding Fiction and Nonfiction CharacteristicsDefinitions of the Common Core Text Types and Sample PromptsWhat Do Argument Texts Entail?What Do Informative/Explanatory Texts Entail?What Do Narrative Texts Entail?A Closer Look at Appendix C: Samples of Student WritingIdentifying and Articulating the Language Standards Across GradesExercise 1: What Is the Best Way to Group Standards?Unit Focus and TemplateConsiderations for Grouping StandardsGrouping Standards: Two ApproachesDefinition and Examples for KnowledgeExercise 2: How Are Standards Used to Determine What Students Should Know?Looking AheadChapter 2: Essential UnderstandingsThe Nature and Critical Importance of Essential (or Enduring) UnderstandingsEssential Understandings as Statements of Conceptual IntentExamples of Essential Understandings Aligned to the Anchor Standards for ReadingSpecial Considerations: Time, Intellectual Growth, ClusteringConstructing Your Own Essential UnderstandingsExercise 3: How Do Educators Create (or Revise) Essential Understandings?Sharing Essential Understandings With Your StudentsLooking AheadChapter 3: Guiding QuestionsThe Importance of Guiding QuestionsSharing Guiding Questions With Your StudentsThe Differences Between Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding QuestionsDesigning Text-Dependent Questions for Complex TextHow Do Teachers Facilitate Close Reading of Complex Texts?Examples of Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions for Grammar and ConventionsConstructing Your Own Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding QuestionsExercise 4: How Do Educators Create (or Revise) Essential Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions?Looking AheadChapter 4: Unit Map Template and ExampleCustomizing and Adapting the Unit Map to Fit Your NeedsOrganizing Unit Maps and Student WorkLooking AheadChapter 5: Summative Assessments and PreassessmentsTypes of AssessmentsSummative (Culminating) AssessmentsRubricsChecklistsPreassessmentsConstructing Your Own Summative AssessmentExercise 5: How Do Educators Determine an Appropriate Summative Assessment?Looking AheadChapter 6: Skills, Activities, Formative Assessments, and ResourcesSkillsTeaching Strategies and Learning ActivitiesFormative AssessmentsResourcesIdentifying Skills and Constructing Activities, Evidence of Assessment, and Resources for Your Targeted UnitExercise 6: What Targeted Skills With Associated Activities, Evidence of Assessment, and Resources Can Educators Design (and Find) for a Targeted Unit?Looking AheadChapter 7: Differentiated InstructionContent, Process, and ProductReadiness, Learning Profile, and InterestInstructional Strategy: Rolling Dice or CubesInstructional Strategy: Using ManipulativesConstructing Your Own Differentiated Instructional StrategiesExercise 7: How Can You Indicate Differentiation on Your Unit Map?Looking AheadChapter 8: Lesson DesignLesson ComponentsSample LessonsNext Steps After Designing LessonsA Final NoteLesson 1: What Are Inferences? How Do I Make Inferences About This Text?Lesson 2: What Is Characterization? How Do Authors Use Characterization to Create and Develop Characters?Lesson 3: What Factors Help Me to Evaluate the Credibility of Sources?Lesson 4: What Are Elements of an Argument Paper? What Are the Expectations for My Finished Argument?Resource: A Brief Primer on the ELA Common Core StandardsCreation and Purpose of the Common Core StandardsWho Led the Standards Initiative, and What Is the Goal?Who Are the CCSSO and NGA?Content and Structure of the Common Core StandardsResearch Highlights for the Reading StrandLogisticsCan States Add to the Standards?How Can Standards Be Identified?Collaboration, Limitations, and AssessmentWho Uses These Standards Besides the ELA Teacher?What Aspects Are Not Covered in the Common Core Standards Document?What to Look for When Aligning Existing Standards With the Common CoreAssessmentsClosingReferencesIndex