standards

A resource for educators on teaching literacy in history, social studies, science, and techincal subjects based on the Common Core English Language Arts Standards.

This easy-to-use pocket guide, compiled from the sixth edition of the "Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association," provides complete guidance on the rules of style that are critical for clear communication.

Gives tips and tricks to help readers evaluate multimedia content used to support literature and informational text using expert reader models and providing guided practice.

Provides tips and tricks to help readers determine point of view and purpose in literature and informational text using expert reader models, then providing guided practice.

Provides tips and tricks to help readers compare and contrast literature and informational text using expert reader models, then providing guided practice.

Provides tips and tricks to help readers analyze text and cite evidence in literature and informational text using expert reader models, then providing guided practice.

Provides tips and tricks to help readers analyze structure and evaluate ideas in literature and informational text using expert reader models, then providing guided practice.

Gives tips and tricks to help readers analyze ideas, events, and individuals in literature and informational text using expert reader models, then providing guided practice.

"In many public schools, students are spending up to 28 percent of instructional time on testing and test prep. Starting this year, the introduction of the Common Core State Standards Initiative in 45 states will bring an unprecedented level of new, more difficult, and longer mandatory tests to nearly every classroom in the nation up to five times a year--forcing our national testing obsession to a crisis point. Taxpayers are spending extravagant money on these tests--up to $1.4 billion per year--and excessive tests are stunting children's spirits, adding stress to family life, and slowly killing our country's future competitiveness. Yet even so, we still want our kids to score off the charts on every test they take, in elementary school and beyond. And there will be a lot of them. This book is an exploration of that dilemma, and a strategy for how to solve it"--.