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VIDEO: The English Language Arts Standards: Key Changes and their Evidence
From: The Hunt Institute
• Historical context of the need for change in ELA Standards
• Five critical shifts from earlier standards: text complexity; analysis, inference
and evidence; writing to sources; mastery of writing and speaking; academic
vocabulary
• Importance of academic vocabulary, especially for English Learners
Arizona English Language Arts Standards/Common Core
Arizona Additions
Common Core State Standard Initiative
Arizona Support Documents for the 2010 Arizona English Language Arts Standards
Arizona State Literacy Plan
Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project
Rigor is creating an environment in which each student is expected to learn at high levels, each student is supported so he or she can learn at high levels, and each student demonstrates learning at high levels. Barbara R. Blackburn
Close Reading describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a passage of text. Such a reading places great emphasis on the particular over the general, paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold as they are read. Word iq.com
Text Complexity- Text complexity is defined by three equally important components.
1. Qualitative dimensions of text complexity, such as levels of knowledge demands.
2. Quantitative measures of text complexity, such as word frequency and sentence length, which are typically measured by computer software.
3. Reader and Task considerations, such as students’ knowledge, motivation and interests
Lexile- A Lexile measure is a piece of information about either an individual’s reading ability or the difficulty of a text, like a book or magazine article. It is used as a quantitative measure of text complexity.
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