Common Core Learning Standards
6 Shifts in ELA/Literacy
- Read as much non-fiction as fiction
- Learn about the world by reading
- Read more challenging material closely
- Discuss reading using evidence
- Write non-fiction using evidence
- Increase academic vocabulary
6 Shifts in Mathematics
- Focus: learn more about fewer, key topics
- Build skills within and across grades
- Develop speed and accuracy
- Really know it, really do it
- Use it in the real world
- Think fast AND solve problems
ELA/Literacy Shift
ELA/Literacy Shift 1: Read as much non-fiction as fiction
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ELA/Literacy Shift 2: Learn about the world by reading
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The more we read the more we can read!
- By age 3, children from affluent families have heard 30 million more words than children from parents living in poverty (Hart and Risley, 1995).
- Children who have larger vocabularies and greater understanding of spoken language do better in school (Whitehurst and Lonigan).
- If children aren't reading on grade level by third grade, are four times more likely to leave high school without a diploma (Hernandez, 2011).
ELA/Literacy Shift 3: Read more complex material carefully
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Support their Reading. Read Challenging Texts Aloud.
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K-1 | A Tree is a Plan Read Aloud: Fire, Fire! |
Are you My Mother? Read Aloud: The Owl & the Pussycat |
2-3 | Martin Luther King and the March on Washington Read Aloud: What the World Eats |
Fire Cat Read Aloud: Charlotte's Web |
4-5 | Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms The Kids' Guide to Money |
Bud not Buddy The Secret Garden |
ELA/Literacy Shift 4: Discuss reading using evidence
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ELA/Literacy Shift 5: Writing from Sources
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ELA/Literacy Shift 6: Academic Vocabulary
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Mathematics Shift
Mathematics Shift 1: Focus: Learn more about less
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Mathematics Shift 2: Skills Across Grades
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Mathematics Shift 3: Speed and Accuracy
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Key Fluencies
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K | Add/subtract within 5 |
1 | Add/subtract within 10 |
2 | Add/subtract within 20 Add/subtract within 100 (pencil and paper) |
3 | Multiply/divide within 100 Add/subtract within 100 |
4 | Add/subtract within 1,000,000 |
5 | Multi-digit multiplication |
Mathematics Shift 4: Know it/Do it!
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Mathematics Shift 5: Real World
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Mathematics Shift 6: Think Fast/Solve Problems
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