Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, Grades 6-12: 15 Must-Have Skills Every Student Needs to Achieve / Edition 1

by Jim Burke, Barry Gilmore

Overview

Depth matters!

Can a mere fifteen words turn today’s youth into the innovative, ambitious thinkers we need? Yes, contend Jim Burke and Barry Gilmore, because these are the moves that make the mind work and students must learn if they’re to achieve academically. With Academic Moves, Jim and Barry distill each of these 15 powerhouse processes into a potent concision that nevertheless spans core subject areas:

• Before, during, and after sections offer essential questions, lesson ideas, and activities.
• Student samples illustrate what to look for and the process for getting there.
• Culminating tasks include producing an analytic essay, argument, and more.
• Reproducible rubrics assist with assessment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483379807
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/03/2015
Series:	Corwin Literacy
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

A longtime English teacher, Jim Burke is the author of more than 20 books and senior consultant for the Holt Mc Dougal Literature program. Jim has received several awards, including the 2000 NCTE Exemplary English Leadership Award. In 2009, he created the English Companion Ning—the largest online community of English teachers in the world. More recently, Jim has served on the AP English Course and Exam Review Commission and the PARCC Consortium.

Barry Gilmore was the Middle School Head and later the Assistant Head of School for Teaching and Learning at Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee. A National Board Certified Teacher, he taught English and social studies for nearly twenty years. Barry is the author of seven education books and the former president of the Tennessee Council of Teachers of English. Awards for his teaching have come from NCTE, TCTE, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission. He passed away in 2019 at the age of 50 and is dearly missed by his students, family, friends and fellow faculty.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Language of Learning
Acknowledgments
1. Analyze
2. Argue
3. Compare/Contrast
4. Describe
5. Determine
6. Develop
7. Evaluate
8. Explain
9. Imagine
10. Integrate
11. Interpret
12. Organize
13. Summarize
14. Support
15. Transform
Appendices
I. The Other Words
II. Academic Writing Moves
III. Working With the Words Across Disciplines
IV. Academic Moves: Etymology
V. Teaching by Design Using Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Model
VI. Standards Correlation Chart (Texas, Florida, Indiana, and Virginia)
VII. Anchor Charts
VIII. Graphic Organizers
Glossary
Index

Editorial Reviews

What sets Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness apart are its emphasis on student practice and practical application of exemplary instruction. This book speaks to teachers in their language across curriculum areas. Burke and Gilmore have hit the mark on what our students need for college and career readiness.”

JAYNE ELLSPERMANN

Burke and Gilmore present a powerful and practical synthesis of the highest-leverage thinking moves that students—especially linguistically diverse students—need to develop for school, work, and life. They provide what teachers want: clear and concise descriptions of each thinking move, analyses of student work samples, and innovative classroom practices and scaffolds that can be used to develop the moves in a variety of contexts. Fifteen stars!”

JEFF ZWIERS

Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness provides clarity and structure for teachers who seek to help their students become more competent and confident thinkers, and does so without compromising the critical role of a teacher's content knowledge and creativity in a dynamic classroom. Its economy of expression makes complex ideas accessible, while annotated student work provides a window into learner application. Most significantly, the book is written in the voice of teachers, who live what they recommend.”

CAROL ANN TOMLINSON

Jim Burke’s books need to be on the ‘must-read’ list of—at the very least—all English teachers! Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness is a worthy addition to that list with the ‘academic and thinking’ moves he and his coauthor, Barry Gilmore, describe critical for any of us who want to ‘up our game’ in the classroom.”

LARRY FERLAZZO