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Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades 6-12

English Language Arts Strategies


Make the Common Core work for ELLs, students with disabilities, and other struggling learners, with flexible teaching strategies that cover the 32 ELA anchor standards.

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  • Grade Level: 6-12
  • ISBN: 9781452257815
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2013
  • Page Count: 280
  • Publication date: September 05, 2013
Price: $32.95
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New hope for our students who struggle most

Under the best of circumstances meeting the Common Core can be a challenge. But if you’re a teacher of academically or linguistically diverse students—and who isn’t these days—then that “challenge” may sometimes feel more like a “fantasy.” Finally, here are two expert educators who are brave enough, knowledgeable enough, and grounded enough to tackle this issue.

The grades 6-12 follow-up to Dove and Honigsfeld’s best-selling K-5 volume, this outstanding resource is packed with all the advice, tools, and strategies you need to build struggling learners’ language skills in today’s Common Core climate. Armed with this book, you’ll

  • Better understand the 32 ELA anchor standards
  • Learn more about the specific skills “uncommon learners” need to master them
  • Discover new research-based teaching strategies aligned to each standard
  • Maximize the effectiveness of collaboration and co-teaching

Read this book, implement its strategies, and see the benefits for yourself. It may be your best hope for making the standards achievable for all kinds of “uncommon learners”: ELLs, students with disabilities, speakers of nonstandard English, and other struggling students.

“Honigsfeld and Dove provide educators with research, insights, tools, and models for helping diverse students meet and exceed Common Core anchor literacy standards across disciplines. This book is a powerful guide for deepening classroom teaching practices and engaging in professional conversations that foster the enduring learning of content, language, and literacy.”
--Jeff Zwiers, Researcher,
Stanford University, CA

“Uncommon learners are more common in classrooms than you think. . . .Thankfully, Honigsfeld and Dove show us the way. They pave a path to high expectations that actually shows us how to get there. Filled with examples and ideas, this book will contribute in significant ways to the success that all learners have for decades to come.”
--Douglas Fisher, Professor,
San Diego State University, CA


Key features

(1) A reader friendly guide to making the Common Core State Standards for ELA accessible to the "not-so-common learner," i.e., English Learners, Nonstandard English Learners, and other at-risk learners.

(2) Grounded in the research on effective instructional strategies tied to the CCSS for EL's and other at-risk categories of learners.

(3) Addresses all four strands of the ELA standards (reading, writing, speaking, listening) and includes detailed examples of how to implement strategies across secondary grade levels.

(4) For each of the Anchor Standards, the authors have created a series of corresponding Anchor Performances -- skill sets that all students need to be able to do -- and suggest strategies to help diverse students build these skills in order to meet the Standards.

(5) Includes an array of tools and templates to support implementation of selected strategies.

(6) Acknowledges that literacy instruction is a shared responsibility across a school and includes explicit guidance on professional collaboration and co-teaching to promote literacy.
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Andrea Honigsfeld

Andrea Honigsfeld, EdD, is Professor in the School of Education at Molloy University, Rockville Centre, New York. Before entering the field of teacher education, she was an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher in Hungary (Grades 5–8 and adult) and an English-as-a-second-language teacher in New York City (Grades K–3 and adult). She also taught Hungarian at New York University. She was the recipient of a doctoral fellowship at St. John’s University, New York, where she conducted research on individualized instruction and learning styles. She has published extensively on working with English language learners and providing individualized instruction based on learning style preferences. She received a Fulbright Award to lecture in Iceland in the fall of 2002. In the past twelve years, she has been presenting at conferences across the United States, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, the Philippines, and the United Arab Emirates.

She coauthored Differentiated Instruction for At-Risk Students (2009) and co-edited the five-volume Breaking the Mold of Education series (2010–2013), published by Rowman and Littlefield. She is also the co-author of Core Instructional Routines: Go-To Structures for Effective Literacy Teaching, K–5 and 6–12 (2014), published by Heinemann. With Maria Dove, she co-edited Coteaching and Other Collaborative Practices in the EFL/ESL Classroom: Rationale, Research, Reflections, and Recommendations (2012) and co-authored Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners (2010), Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades K–5: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades 6–12: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner (2014), Collaboration and Co-Teaching: A Leader’s Guide (2015), Coteaching for English Learners: A Guide to Collaborative Planning, Instruction, Assessment, and Reflection (2018), Collaborating for English Learners: A Foundational Guide to Integrated Practices (2019), Co-Planning: 5 Essential Practices to Integrate Curriculum and Instruction for English Learners (2022). She is a contributing author of Breaking Down the Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learner Success (2020), From Equity Insights to Action (2021), and Digital-Age Teaching for English Learners (2022). Nine of her Corwin books are bestsellers.

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Maria G. Dove

Maria G. Dove, Ed.D, is currently a Professor in the School of Education and Human Services at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York. Prior to working in higher education, she spent over thirty years as an English-as-a-second-language teacher in public schools and adult English language programs. She is well-known for her professional development work across the United States, focusing on culturally and linguistically diverse students. Dove's work has led her to publish books, articles, and chapters on collaborative teaching practices and instructional strategies for English learners. In collaboration with Andrea Honigsfeld, she has co-authored four best-selling Corwin Press books including Collaboration for English Learners: A Foundational Guide to Integrated Practices (2019).
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Who Are Our Not So Common Learners?

The Standards Movement

Common Core Advances

Application of the Common Core to Address Individual Differences

Student Diversity and Teacher Challenges

What Is Not Covered In The Common Core Document

Focus on Research-Based Strategies to Address Learning Needs

Chapter 2. Strategies for Academic Language Development

Why Diverse Adolescent Learners Need Explicit Instruction in Academic Language?

Core Language and Vocabulary Strategies

Conventions of Standard English

Knowledge and Application of Language

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Anticipated Outcomes

Instructional Challenges

Promising Classroom Practices

Common Core Standards—(Un)Common Reflection Questions

Key Resources

Chapter 3. Reading Strategies for Literature

Why Teaching Diverse Adolescent Learners Reading Strategies Promotes Comprehension of Literary Texts

Core Reading Strategies

Key Ideas and Details

Craft and Structure

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Anticipated Outcomes

Instructional Challenges

Promising Classroom Practices

Common Core Standards—(Un)Common Reflection Questions

Key Resources

Chapter 4. Reading Strategies for Informational Texts

Why Teaching Diverse Adolescent Learners Reading Strategies Promotes Comprehension of Informational Texts

Core Informational Reading Strategies

Key Ideas and Details

Craft and Structure

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Anticipated Outcomes

Instructional Challenges

Promising Classroom Practices

Common Core Standards—(Un)Common Reflection Questions

Key Resources

Chapter 5. Writing Strategies

Why Scaffolding and Explicit Skills Instruction Improves the Writing of Diverse Adolescent Learners

Core Writing Strategies

Text Types and Purposes

Production and Distribution of Writing

Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Range of Writing

Anticipated Outcomes

Instructional Challenges

Promising Classroom Practices

Common Core Standards—(Un)Common Reflection Questions

Key Resources

Chapter 6. Speaking and Listening Strategies

Why Speaking and Listening Skills Improve the Overall Academic Development of Diverse Adolescent Learners

Core Speaking and Listening Strategies

Comprehension and Collaboration

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

Anticipated Outcomes

Instructional Challenges

Promising Classroom Practices

Common Core Standards—(Un)Common Reflection Questions

Key Resources

Chapter 7. Key to Successful Implementation: Collaborative Strategies

Why Collaborative Practices Help Meet the Common Core

Core Collaborative Practices

Instructional

Curriculum mapping and alignment

Joint instructional planning

Parallel teaching

Co-developing instructional materials

Collaborative assessment

Co-teaching

Noninstructional

Joint professional development

Teacher research

Joint parent-teacher conferences and report card writing

Planning, facilitating, and participating in extracurricular activities

Anticipated Outcomes

Challenges

Common Core Collaborations—(Un)Common Reflection Questions

Key Resources

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