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Common Core standards in English/Language Arts call upon teachers to move children beyond the mere comprehension of text, towards a deeper engagement suggesting that students interact with text using critical, evidence-based thinking from multiple points of view. This interactive session will first engage participants in a Visible Thinking experience highlighting two thinking routines that can be used to enter text in ways that are compatible with what is being asked for in the Common Core. A transcribed example of students using the same thinking routine as well as their written work will be examined and compared to language taken from the Common Core ELA Standards. The course, based on work done in a fourth grade classroom, will be presented by a university-level English/Language Arts elementary education faculty member and an experienced practitioner of Project Zero ideas.
Intended Audience: Elementary Language Arts and Administrators
