Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards

A Literacy Practices Approach for 6-12 Classrooms

• Author(s): Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Allen Webb,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 299
• ISBN_10: 0415808081
  ISBN_13: 9780415808088
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / General , Education / Curricula , Education / Schools / Levels / Secondary , Education / Teaching / General , Education / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics , Education / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts , Education / Teacher Training & Certification , Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy ,

Description:...

As the new English Language Arts Common Core State Standards take hold across the United States, the need grows for pre-service and in-service teachers to be ready to develop curriculum and instruction that addresses their requirements. This timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive text directly meets this need. It delineates a literacy practices and critical engagement curriculum framework for 6-12 English language arts education that explains and illustrates how the Standards’ highest and best intentions for student success can be implemented from a critical, culturally relevant perspective that is firmly grounded in current literacy learning theory and research.

The first 6-12 English language arts methods text to be aligned with the Standards, this book also addresses their limitations — formalist assumptions about literacy learning, limited attention to media/digital literacies, lack of attention to critical literacies, and questionable assumptions about linking standards and text complexity to specific grade levels. Specific examples of teachers using the literacy practices/critical engagement curriculum framework in their classrooms shows how these limitations can be surpassed.

Features

• Moves the CCSS framework into a view that literacy is a contextualized, social practice

• Challenges simplistic models that homogenize adolescent learners

• Adds the important element of critical literacy to English language arts classrooms

• Provides specific examples of teachers in action implementing these practices

• Interactive Companion Website with student and instructor resources. The Website is designed to foster interactivity through participation in an online teaching planning simulation with a text, video, or case on one side of the screen and a chat box for instructors and students to share their reactions and planning ideas. The Companion Website is linked to a wiki that serves as a repository for links, activities/units, and further reading.