ERIC Number: ED532891
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2012-May-16
Pages: 306
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ISBN: ISBN-978-0-4158-0807-1
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Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: A Literacy Practices Approach for 6-12 Classrooms
Beach, Richard; Thein, Amanda Haertling; Webb, Allen
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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.
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Curriculum Development, Language Arts, State Standards, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Problems, Educational Policy, English Instruction, Elementary School Curriculum, Secondary School Curriculum, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation, Culturally Relevant Education, Media Literacy, Computer Literacy, Critical Literacy, Reflective Teaching, Writing Instruction, Reading Instruction, Speech Instruction, Listening Skills
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Publication Type: Books; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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