Common Core CPR: What About the Adolescents Who Struggle . . . or Just Don't Care? / Edition 1

by ReLeah Cossett Lent, Barry Gilmore

Overview

How to revive your most resistant learners

Common Core CPR is needed. Urgently. Because if we continue to insist that all students meet expectations that are well beyond their abilities, these kids will only decline faster. We must cast aside what we know harms students and apply the teaching methods we know work.

Embracing what is best about the standards, Lent and Gilmore explicitly connect ideal outcomes to practical classroom strategies, including how to

• Consider choice and relevance in every assignment
• Plan and spot opportunities for success
• Scaffold students’ comprehension of fiction and nonfiction
• Model close reading
• Teach students to use evidence

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452291369
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/27/2013
Series:	Corwin Literacy
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Re Leah Cossett Lent is an international consultant known for speaking, writing, and providing workshops on various topics ranging from literacy to leadership teams. She was previously a middle and high school English, Social Studies, and Journalism teacher before becoming a founding member of a state-wide literacy project at the University of Central Florida. There, she contributed to developing Florida's Reading Endorsement courses and coordinated literacy leadership teams statewide. Her most impactful work stems from multi-day residencies in schools, districts, and consortiums, where she has created numerous professional learning initiatives with positive results in student achievement and teacher leadership. An advocate for student ownership and active learning, Re Leah emphasizes powerful collective efficacy as teacher teams engage in problem solving. She has been recognized with several awards, including intellectual freedom awards from the National Council of Teachers of English and The American Library Association, the PEN First Amendment Award, and the Florida Council of Teachers of English (FCTE) President's Award for her "significant contributions to the teachings of English in State of Florida. "

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

Foreword by Richard L. Allington
Introduction: Meeting Common Core With Common Sense
Defining "Standards "
An Introduction to the Standards
Important Considerations
Using Common Sense: What Is Not Covered by the Standards
A Portrait of a Young Student: What We Cover in This Book
Keeping the End in Mind
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. How Do We Reach Reluctant Students?
Understanding Reluctance: Why Daniel Struggled
Final Thoughts: Leaving Daniel (for Now)
Chapter 2. Why Scaffolding Complex Text Is Crucial
Creating Proficient Readers: What's a Teacher to Do?
Text Complexity: Difficult to Define
Scaffolding: Building the Bridge
Untangling Complex Text: A Commonsense Approach
Scaffolding in Action: Practices That Support Learning
Build Background Knowledge to Make Learning Stick
Final Thoughts
Chapter 3. How Do We Engage All Students in Reading and Writing?
Starting With Reading: The Importance of Audience and Purpose
Audience and Purpose in Writing
Final Thoughts
Chapter 4. How to Go Deeper: Creating Analytical Thinkers
A Case of Aliteracy: The Bubonic Plague
Deepening Understanding Through Critical Literacy
A Critical Look at Close Reading
Final Thoughts
Chapter 5. Why Evidence Matters: From Text to Talk to Argument
Paideia Seminars: A Focus on Evidence
Paideia Seminars and Struggling Students
Problem- and Project-Based Learning: Using Evidence
The Project Realized: Envisioning the Future Fair
The Advantages of Project-Based Learning
Final Thoughts
Chapter 6. How Using Diverse Media and Formats Can Ignite Student Learning
The Scope of Technology in an Inquiry-Based Classroom
Preparing for Reading and Writing: Interpreting Material in Diverse Formats
Speaking and Listening: Technology and Student Presentation
Final Thoughts
Chapter 7. Why a Culture of Reading Is Critical—and How to Create One
A Culture of Reading: How It Supports the CCSS
The Workshop Approach: Does It Meet the Standards?
Understanding Perspectives: A Piece of the Portrait
Literature Circles: Sharing Perspectives
Do Literature Circles Meet the Standards?
Creating a Culture of Literacy in a Middle School
Final Thoughts
Chapter 8. What Do We Do About the Language Standards?
What Do We Do About Grammar?
What Do We Do About Vocabulary?
Final Thoughts
Afterword by Sharon M. Draper
Appendix A. Standards for Motivation and Engagement With Teacher Tools
Appendix B. Books for . . . Lists
References
Index
About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

Finally! A practical and comprehensive guide for teachers who want to ensure that the needs of all students are met in this age of Common Core Standards, including reluctant and struggling readers and writers. Thank you, Re Leah Lent and Barry Gilmore, for helping ease one our greatest fears about the Common Core—that struggling students will struggle even more.”

Deborah Appleman

This is a very helpful and very timely book. Lent and Gilmore provide a very smart yet workable and commonsense approach to not only engaging struggling learners, but then assisting them through collaborative activity in a meaningful context of use to greater facility as readers and writers, speakers, and listeners. The approach will certainly help teachers help their students to meet the next generation of standards and assessments, but also so much more than that.

Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

I have read two books that give me hope that the CCSS may improve both teaching and learning, especially for struggling readers and writers. This book, written by Re Leah Lent and Barry Gilmore, is one of those two books (the other was written by Lucy Calkins and her colleagues). . . . So, read this book and then begin to adapt your instruction in the manner described so artfully.”

Richard L. Allington

Common Core CPR is a powerful text. . . . [It] offers commonsense suggestions for successful work with the standards in all classrooms, especially with students who struggle. Using an interdisciplinary approach to literacy, the authors do not view the standards as isolated skills to teach, but as natural outcomes as they scaffold learning.”

Sharon Draper