Why this book?
* Online curriculum!
* Offers guidance and resources to help teachers use the Common Core shifts in literacy to create more empowered and literate students.
* Provides resources that rely on powerful and worthy books, articles and primary source documents.
* Its curriculum respects and challenges students by providing complex and interesting tasks, and it asks teachers to use their professional judgement
The shifts of the Common Core:
* Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction
* Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from literary and informational text
* Regular practice with complex text and its academic language
Common Core Seven Dispositions of Students
* They demonstrate independence.
* They build strong content knowledge.
* They respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline.
* They comprehend as well as critique.
* They value evidence.
* They use technology and digital media strategically and capably.
* They come to understand other's perspectives and cultures.
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