This site offers companion materials for the book Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts, Grades 6-8 by Tonya Perry with Rebecca Manery. (Click here to purchase a copy.)
Resources include:
Section I: Observing the CCSS
Chapter 1: Demystifying the Common Core State Standards
Figure 1.1 Structural relationships of the CCSS (PDF)
Web 1.2 Updates on CCSS assessments from the
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the
SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium Web 1.3 Visit the Teaching and Learning Forum in the
NCTE Connected Community to discuss the CCSS with other teachers and to share your experiences.
Web 1.4 Examples of text complexity (see page 58 of this PDF)
Web 1.5 The
Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the
SMARTER Balanced Assessment ConsortiumSection II: Contextualizing
Chapter 2: Inquiry and Independence in the English Language Arts Classroom
Figure 2.1 Pathways to planning and enacting instruction (PDF)
Chapter 3: Thinking Deeply about Text
Web 3.1 NCTE's Connected Community; the
National Writing Project (NWP)
Chapter 4: Reading/Writing Workshop
Section III: Building
Chapter 5: Individual Considerations: Keeping Students at the Center
Figure 5.1 Reading the CCSS with an example (PDF)
Figure 5.2 Planning with students at the center (PDF)
Figure 5.3 Questions for planning with students at the center (PDF)
Figure 5.4 Questions for planning template (PDF)
Figure 5.5 Unit plan template (PDF)
Web 5.1 Resources on summative assessment:Glossary of assessment terminologyA ReadWriteThink lesson that incorporates student assessmentThe NCTE book
Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom Figure 5.6 Year/course unit planning template (PDF)
Chapter 6: Working Collaboratively to Enact the CCSS
Web 6.1 Resources for building school-wide literacy initiativesThe NCTE book
Taking Initiative on Writing: A Guide for Instructional Leaders (view table of contents and a sample chapter)
A recording of the NCTE Web seminar
"On Teaching Content: Building a Schoolwide Culture"Information about the
National Center for Literacy Education (NCLE)Chapter 5,
"Develop and Implement a Schoolwide Literacy Action Plan," from the ASCD publication
Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy by Judith L. Irvin, Julie Meltzer and Melinda S. Dukes
Web 6.2 Teachers as Readers: Forming Book Groups as Professionals (NCTE Guideline)
Web 6.3 Online forum: Learn about the
NCTE Connected CommunityFigure 6.1 Grade-level distinctions planning template (PDF)
Figure 6.2 Grade-level distinctions exampleWeb 6.4 ReadWriteThink.orgChapter 7: Becoming a Teacher Advocate
Appendix B: NCTE Principles
NCTE Principles Regarding Teachers as Decision-MakersFeatures of Literacy Programs: A Decision-Making Matrix (NCTE Commission on Reading, 2005) PDF
Resolution on Scripted Curricula (2008)
Resolution on Affirming the Role of Teachers and Students in Developing Curriculum (2010)
NCTE Principles Regarding Reading InstructionOn Reading, Learning to Read, and Effective Reading Instruction: An Overview of What We Know and How We Know It (NCTE Commission on Reading)
NCTE Principles Regarding the Teaching of WritingNCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing (Writing Study Group of the NCTE Executive Committee, 2004)
NCTE Principles Regarding Speaking and ListeningGuideline on the Essentials of English (1982)
NCTE Principles Regarding Teaching English Language LearnersNCTE Position Paper on the Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners (ELLs) (NCTE ELL Task Force, 2006)
NCTE Principles Regarding 21st Century Literacies21st Century Curriculum and Assessment Framework (2008)
NCTE Principles Regarding AssessmentStandards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing, Revised Edition (Joint IRA-NCTE Task Force on Assessment, 2009)