Common Core Ela Skills for Every Student

Common Core ELA Skills for Every Student is an essential Common Core curriculum development guide that discusses the importance of teaching students higher order thinking skills needed to learn and master the Common Core ELA standards in all content areas. This book gives educators the basic tools to analyze the standards, develop engaging standard-based lessons and activities, and effectively teach these standards to students. Topics discussed include analyzing the standards for thinking skills, developing and integrating projects and activities to build knowledge and comprehension skills as well as higher levels of thinking, writing strategies to clarify and strengthen learning, graphic organizers and the use of Web 2.0, web-based tools, and technology to assist students in mastering these standards.