Writing Your First Module St. Bernard Parish Public Schools Nicole Bower 8 th Grade English Justin Burkhardt 8 th Grade Social Studies

Challenges of the Common Core State Standards  The transition to the Common Core State Standards will create changes and challenges in all classrooms.  Some of these new challenges include:  Reading and analyzing complex texts  Rigor  Multiple genres  Using evidence  Speaking and listening skills  Overall higher level writing

How do we tackle these challenges and prepare our students for College and Career Readiness? Literacy Design Collaborative

LDC – First Impressions and Initial Challenges Initial Challenges for Social Studies Integration with GLE’s Overwhelming Initial Challenges for English LDC Rubrics Writing Styles

The Planning Process  Developing inquiry among students  Selecting an appropriate and engaging task  Using Module Creator as a tool  Locating a variety of complex nonfiction and fiction texts

What We Learned  Shorter, richer passages in the content areas to account for time  Goal setting and organization—students need to know where they’re going next  The importance of student engagement in task  The importance of scaffolding a task and modeling analysis of a text

Helpful Resources  Resources  Module Creator  R-Groupspace  Teacher collaboration across content areas  Instructional Strategies  Writers Checklist and Writers Notebook  LDC Rubrics  Annotations and close reading  AEC or any other writing strategy  Socratic seminars, debates, discussions

Benefits of LDC  Growth on standardized assessments along with a deeper understanding of material  Increase in rigor of writing based on close analysis of complex mentor texts  Increase in speaking and listening abilities › Student testimonials – Danton and Ambria