20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core: Increasing Rigor in Middle & High School Classrooms

Synopsis

With the advent of the Common Core State Standards and their high expectations with regard to content literacy, secondary teachers are scrambling for ways to implement the standards effectively. 20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core provides a clearly written, easy-to-access plan for implementing content literacy to meet the needs of these educators. Authors Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins and Allyson J. Burnett provide twenty research-based literacy strategies designed to help secondary students not only meet the new standards but also become expert readers. This practical guide makes implementation easy by providing activities, prompts, organizers, lesson plans, and many other tools for facilitating skilled secondary content literacy.

Grades 6-12 teachers will:

Access activities, lesson plans, organizers, and other research-based tools that promote secondary content literacy.

Learn how to enhance teacher-team discussion and reflection on current practices, the standards, and the strategies

Reflect on and review current student progress to ensure college and career readiness