8th Grade Common Core ELA Lesson Increases Student Learning and Mastery
(PRWEB) May 29, 2014 -- School Improvement Network, the leader in educator effectiveness resources, today announced a new video segment showing an 8th grade Common Core ELA lesson on analyzing primary and secondary sources to increase student mastery and increase educator effectiveness. The new Common Core video is available to all educators as part of the weekly publication, “Strategy of the Week.”
“The Common Core State Standards were designed to propel students to master the 21st century skills essential for them to be successful in college and careers after they graduate from high school,” said Chet D. Linton, CEO and president of School Improvement Network. “Resources like this 8th grade Common Core ELA lesson show the progressive nature of the Standards and the way they push students to a deeper level of learning and help students to master the skills they need to succeed after they graduate.”
In this Common Core video segment, educators will see how an 8th grade history teacher aligned Common Core Literacy Standards RH.6-8 1, 2 and 6 to a lesson about analyzing primary and secondary evidence in the story of Pocahontas. The lesson will include students:
• Identifying aspects of the text that reveal the author’s purpose
• Working together, students determining the central ideas of a primary source
• Citing specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary sources
• Citing specific textual evidence to support analysis of secondary sources
Click here to see the Common Core 8th grade lesson.
Click here to see other Common Core resources on the Common Core Blog.
Click here to see other ways to increase student learning and mastery in “Strategy of the Week.”
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Founded in 1991 by teachers, School Improvement Network has spent decades researching and documenting the best practices in education. From this research, School Improvement Network has developed the Educator Effectiveness System. This system delivers a process to improve teacher practice and gives educators a set of powerful tools to drive the process. Research shows that districts and schools that use the tools in the Educator Effectiveness System produce better teachers and, as a result, experience dramatic increases in student achievement, driving up student proficiency by an average of 18 percent in a single year. School Improvement Network works with thousands of schools and districts in every state and around the world and has visited over 3,500 classrooms to document best practices in action. Learn more at http://www.schoolimprovement.com.
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