Uncommon Core: Where the Authors of the Standards Go Wrong about Instruction-And How You Can Get It Right (Corwin Literacy)

by Michael W Smith, Deborah Appleman, and Jeffrey D Wilhelm

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Uncommon Core
puts us on high-alert about some outright dangerous misunderstandings looming around so-called "standards-aligned" instruction, then shows us how to steer past them-all in service of meeting the real intent of the Common Core. It counters with teaching suggestions that are true to the research and true to our students, including how:

Reader-based approaches can complement text-based onesPrereading activities can help students meet the strategic and conceptual demands of texts Strategy instruction can result in a careful and critical analysis of text while providing transferable understandingsInquiry units around essential questions can generate meaningful conversation and higher-order thinking
  • ISBN10 1483333531
  • ISBN13 9781483333533
  • Publish Date 1 April 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Corwin Publishers
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 224
  • Language English