This new version of The Common Core Companion provides indexes for all states implementing state-specific ELA standards, allowing you to tap into the potency of standards-based teaching ideas.

Standards-based learning just got a lot easier



This new version of The Common Core Companion provides an index for all states implementing state-specific ELA standards. This index allows you to see in an instant which of your standards are the same as CCSS, which differ and how-and which page number to turn to for standards-based teaching ideas.



Beyond that? It's the same great go-to guide for implementing the standards into daily practice across English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.

Standards-based learning just got a lot easier



This new version of The Common Core Companion provides an index for all states implementing state-specific ELA standards. This index allows you to see in an instant which of your standards are the same as CCSS, which differ and how-and which page number to turn to for standards-based teaching ideas.



Beyond that? It's the same great go-to guide for implementing the standards, translating each and every standard for reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and foundational skills into the day-to-day "what you do."

Turn today's youth into innovative, ambitious thinkers with fifteen critical reading, writing, and thinking processes. Jim and Barry distill each process into a potent concision that spans subject areas.


This book explains what the standards say, what they mean, and how to teach them. The book is organized by the Anchor Standards in the following categories:
  • Reading
  • Literature

  • Informational Text

  • Foundational Reading Skills (This is a departure from the 6-12 standards that we will have to consider in design/format)

  • Writing

  • Speaking and Listening

  • Language

This new version of The Common Core Companion provides indexes for states implementing state-specific ELA standards, allowing you to tap into the potency of standards-based teaching ideas.

In this follow-up to her Common Core Companion, Grades 3-5, Leslie Blauman provides an ample supply of connected lessons you can use as booster shots when students need a good dose of integrated reading and writing instruction. The 50+ lessons are divided into five learning sequences that span the ELA standards, bringing a Monday-through-Friday clarity to a process that often overwhelms teachers and coaches alike.

Common Core CPR

by ReLeah Cossett Lent and Barry Gilmore

Published 19 September 2013
The ideal? Newly minted high school graduates all across the nation, each one a complex text genius, a writer and analytic thinker beyond compare. All on to glorious colleges and careers, thanks to the Common Core.

The reality? The 1.3 million students who fail to graduate from high school each year and the hundreds of thousands more who either gave up or lost interest long ago . . .



The reality is why Common Core CPR is needed. Urgently. Because if we continue to insist that all students meet expectations that are well beyond their abilities and mindsets, these kids will only decline faster. We must be brave enough-and trained enough-to cast aside what we know harms students and apply with renewed vigour the teaching methods we know work.



Releah Lent and Barry Gilmore rise to the challenge, and there are no two authors better equipped to do so. They embrace what is best about the standards-their emphasis on active, authentic learning-and then explicitly show teachers how to connect these ideal outcomes to practical classroom strategies, detailing the day-to-day teaching that can coax reluctant learners into engagement and achievement. You'll learn how to:

* Consider choice and relevance in every assignment

* Plan and spot opportunities for success

* Scaffold students' comprehension of complex fiction and nonfiction texts

* Model close reading through thoughtful questioning

* Teach students to use evidence in reading, writing, speaking, and reflection

With this text, excerpts from current nonfiction, lessons and activities will guide students to doing their best analytical writing about nonfiction texts. This is done through citing evidence about relationships, main idea, point of view, visuals, and words and structure.

This Is Disciplinary Literacy helps content-area teachers put into action the key literacies of their specialties. Teaching science? Students must evaluate evidence and question as they read. History? Comparing and contrasting sources and interpreting the import of events are key. Writing in Math? Accuracy is favored over elaboration and craft. Reading fiction in ELA? Synthesizing and attuning to voice and figurative language reign supreme. Students fully own knowledge because your instruction zeroes in on the academic habits that matter most.

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Each of the social science disciplines requires literacy skills that can look completely different from those in other content areas. A disciplinary literacy approach, then, expands content learning by helping students read, write, think, and communicate as experts in history, sociology, or global studies, offering a more relevant way to understand complex concepts and challenging texts.

This On-Your-Feet Guide will help teachers

* Plan instruction that engages students' natural inquiry and curiosity;

* Apprentice students toward deeper understanding of social science concepts, terms, understandings, and text;

* Help students use their learning to create, communicate, and participate as social scientists;

* Teach skills required by social studies standards and frameworks; and

* Work with colleagues to design instructional units that incorporate both content and literacy skills.

Students can then use these tools to compare, create, connect, and construct as they do the work of experts instead of only reading about how it's done.

On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher.

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides
* When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
* As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
* To learn how to implement foundational practices
* When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself






The author of the bestselling CCC 3-5 and Booster Lessons shares lessons, student reproducibles, and high interest texts that target the 6 key skills of analytical reading and writing. It's the writing about reading book the field has been waiting for. Understanding Character, Point of View, Visuals, Words and Structure, and more. Each lesson contains a valuable test-readiness tip box so teachers can prepare students to do well on standardized tests through authentic practice.

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Math has its own specialized language. Mathematicians write in symbols, read patterns, and think in terms of visual or abstract ideas. With a disciplinary literacy approach, math teachers can focus on teaching their specialized content by showing students the literacies that truly support mathematical thinking - so students can read, write, think, investigate, and communicate as mathematicians.

This On-Your-Feet Guide will help teachers:

  • Plan instruction that engages students' natural inquiry and curiosity;
  • Apprentice students toward deeper understanding of mathematical concepts, terms, symbols, and patterns;
  • Help students use their new learning to create, communicate, and act as mathematicians;
  • Teach skills required by mathematical standards and frameworks; and
  • Start working with colleagues to design instructional units that incorporate both mathematics and literacy skills.

On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher.

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides

  • When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
  • As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
  • To learn how to implement foundational practices
  • When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself

In this sequel the bestselling This Is Disciplinary Literacy, the authors provide educators with what they've wanted all along: a framework that keeps their subjects at the center and shows them how to pool strengths with colleagues in ongoing communities of professional learning (PL) around content-specific literacy.

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

Each of the social science disciplines requires literacy skills that can look completely different from those in other content areas. A disciplinary literacy approach, then, expands content learning by helping students read, write, think, and communicate as experts in history, sociology, or global studies, offering a more relevant way to understand complex concepts and challenging texts.

This On-Your-Feet Guide will help teachers

* Plan instruction that engages students' natural inquiry and curiosity;

* Apprentice students toward deeper understanding of social science concepts, terms, understandings, and text;

* Help students use their learning to create, communicate, and participate as social scientists;

* Teach skills required by social studies standards and frameworks; and

* Work with colleagues to design instructional units that incorporate both content and literacy skills.

Students can then use these tools to compare, create, connect, and construct as they do the work of experts instead of only reading about how it's done.

On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher.

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides
* When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
* As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
* To learn how to implement foundational practices
* When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself






All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

How can you use literacy tools used to help students practice the behaviors of scientists? With a disciplinary literacy approach, science teachers can focus on teaching their specialized content by showing students the literacies that truly support scientific thinking - so students can read, write, think, investigate, and communicate as scientists.

This On-Your-Feet Guide will help teachers:INTRODUCTION

* Plan instruction that engages students' natural inquiry and curiosity;

* Apprentice students toward deeper understanding of scientific concepts, terms, understandings, and text;

* Help students use their new learning to create, communicate, and participate in science;

* Teach skills required by science standards and frameworks; and

* Work with colleagues to design instructional units that incorporate both deeper content learning and science-specific literacy skills.

The strategies in this guide will help you teach students to read, write, think, and do as scientists!

On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher.

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides
* When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
* As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
* To learn how to implement foundational practices
* When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself





All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

How can you use literacy tools used to help students practice the behaviors of scientists? With a disciplinary literacy approach, science teachers can focus on teaching their specialized content by showing students the literacies that truly support scientific thinking - so students can read, write, think, investigate, and communicate as scientists.

This On-Your-Feet Guide will help teachers:INTRODUCTION

* Plan instruction that engages students' natural inquiry and curiosity;

* Apprentice students toward deeper understanding of scientific concepts, terms, understandings, and text;

* Help students use their new learning to create, communicate, and participate in science;

* Teach skills required by science standards and frameworks; and

* Work with colleagues to design instructional units that incorporate both deeper content learning and science-specific literacy skills.

The strategies in this guide will help you teach students to read, write, think, and do as scientists!

On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher.

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides
* When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
* As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
* To learn how to implement foundational practices
* When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself





All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.

Math has its own specialized language. Mathematicians write in symbols, read patterns, and think in terms of visual or abstract ideas. With a disciplinary literacy approach, math teachers can focus on teaching their specialized content by showing students the literacies that truly support mathematical thinking - so students can read, write, think, investigate, and communicate as mathematicians.

This On-Your-Feet Guide will help teachers:

  • Plan instruction that engages students' natural inquiry and curiosity;
  • Apprentice students toward deeper understanding of mathematical concepts, terms, symbols, and patterns;
  • Help students use their new learning to create, communicate, and act as mathematicians;
  • Teach skills required by mathematical standards and frameworks; and

Start working with colleagues to design instructional units that incorporate both mathematics and literacy skills.On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher.

Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.

Use the On-Your-Feet Guides

  • When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
  • As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
  • To learn how to implement foundational practices
  • When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself