PREPARING ELLS for the COMMON CORE

Dr. Kenji Hakuta is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford and a SCOPE affiliated scholar. He is co-chairing a national initiative to ensure that standards and assessments are attuned to the language needs that ESL students require to succeed. His new website called Understanding Language is located at :http://ell.stanford.edu/

Writing Exemplars for Students

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/showcase/

Instructional Shifts and the Common Core: Tim Shanahan Power Point

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0c2NvbW1vbmNvcmV8Z3g6NDRhMjI4Y2VhMzEwOTE5Nw

ESL white papers are located here:  http://ell.stanford.edu/papers  

EngageNY Common Core and ESL Power Point:

http://engageny.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NTI-July-2012-ELLs-and-Common-Core-Presentation.pdf

NYS Bilingual Common Core Initiative 1/2013

http://www.engageny.org/resource/new-york-state-bilingual-common-core-initiative

Common Core Sample Questions

http://www.p12.nysed.gov/apda/common-core-sample-questions/

Parent Guides to the Common Core

http://www.pta.org/4446.htm

http://www.cgcs.org//site/Default.aspx?PageID=244

ELA & Math Curriculum Maps

http://engageny.org/resource/year-long-draft-curricular-maps-in-ela-and-mathematics/

Common Core Standards for ELA-Lesson Plans & Center Activities

http://www.readtennessee.org/teachers/common_core_standards.aspx

NYSED is revising its ESL and Native Language Arts Performance Indicators to align with the ELA Shifts in the Common Core Standards. It will create "Language Development Benchmarks" that are aligned with the Common Core ELA & Literacy, broken down by 5 proficiency levels (beginner through proficient) :

1. Balancing Informational and Literary Text: At least 50% of what students read is informational. (SIOP, Thinking Maps, Paired Readings)

2. Building Knowledge in the Disciplines: Content teachers emphasize literacy in their classrooms. (In-depth reading of short, content-support texts, structured note-taking and use of other graphic organizers for meaning-making)

3. Staircase of Complexity: Teachers provide appropriate and necessary scaffolding and supports. (Complex texts, rigorous conversations, scaffolding)

4. Text-based Answers:Teachers insist that classroom experiences stay deeply connected to the text.( QAR, Question-Answer-Relationship, text chunking)

5. Writing from Sources: Writing needs to show use of evidence to inform or make an argument. (Sentence starters, outlines, graphic organizers, guided writing, modeling)

6. Academic Vocabulary: Students constantly build the vocabulary they need to access grade level complex text. (Pre-teach academic vocabulary & power words, explicit instruction in word learning strategies, teach language chunks, build on native-language knowledge)