Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at WorkTM, Grades 3-5 (Leading Edge)

Benefits

- Master the CCSS for English language arts and develop common understandings to strengthen instructional practice.
- Learn the five fundamental shifts in literacy instruction necessary to enhance students' language development.
- Plan successful collaborative team meetings with a variety of reproducibles to examine the standards.
- Gain tools to reflect on and assess students' knowledge and understanding of writing, reading, speaking and listening, and using language.
- Obtain sample student activities and peer response forms for individual and group work.
- Discover how to use the CCSS to support English learners and students with special needs.
- Develop high-quality formative and summative assessment strategies, including tasks for speaking and listening, questioning, writing, designing projects and presentations, and giving feedback.
- Move learners through important writing stages novice (emergent) to mature (self-extending).