Week 4: Ch. 4 & 5

Both chapters 4 and 5 describe the three categories of the CCSS reading standards (Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas) in literature and informational texts. Of course, depending on your content area, you may spend more time in one chapter than the other. Here are a couple resources you may want to take a look at, if you haven't already:

• The informational reading standards that specifically spell out the standards in social studies/history and science start on page 61 of the CCSS document.   If you teach a subject other than language arts, I encourage you to take a look at them if you haven’t already. 
• The range of text types for literature (fiction, drama, poetry, and literary non-fiction) which will fall to language arts teachers can be found on pages 57-58 of the CCSS document.

PROMPT (Choose only one and indicate which one you have selected in your response.)  

A. Reflect on these three categories in light of your content area. Which particular category will create the greatest challenge for you in your own classroom/work, and what can you specifically do to support your students in acquiring the standards associated with this particular category?  

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B. How will increased emphasis on the reading of informational texts and its instruction (which the authors rightly suggest must occur across content areas) change your approach in the classroom and your school’s approach to meeting the challenges of “Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects”?

Your response to the prompt is due by Monday evening. Then, you are expected to revisit this site and respond to at least one of your fellow participant’s comments by Thursday. If you need help posting your comment, watch this video.

Don’t forget to read chapters 6 and 7 in anticipation of next week’s prompt.