CCSS activity one

Anchor standards

Three shifts used to teach and meet standards-

-          Regular practice with complex texts and their academic language

-          Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from texts, both literary and informational

-          Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text

The instructional shift between the anchor standard for grade one and the anchor standard for grade three is related to focus and content area. In grade one the anchor standard (in my own words) is to read and make inferences (predictions) based on what you read. In grade three the anchor standard is to summarize what you read and based on that, tell why things happened the way they did, and identify any changes that occurred throughout the reading. So from grade one to grade three the anchor standards instructional shift is going from making predictions to identifying defining traits in the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3
Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

As grade three anchor standard is focused on analyzing how characters, events and changes effect the plot of a story, grade five anchor standard is focused on identifying the key parts of the text that make these changes in plot occur, for example a specific quote from the text. So in third grade you learn to identify how each aspect of the text affects the plot, than in fifth grade learn to analyze these specific aspects by using textual evidence. Basically, the instructional shift between third grade and fifth is from identifying problems, changes, behaviors, to analyzing specifically how and why they occurred and  piecing these together to fit into the text as a whole

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.5
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

References

 http://www.corestandards.org/other-resources/key-shifts-in-english-language-arts/ 

***Summary**** 

For this assignment I was somewhat unclear about what to do but after watching the video on youtube this is what I came up with....

My train of thought was to pick three anchor standards, from three different grade levels and describe the instructional shifts in between the grades.

I started at grade one's anchor standard for literacy and described the instructional shifts to grade three's.

I repeated this process for grade three's anchor standard to grade five's.

I also included the three "key shifts" used to teach common core because as they say, common core "can not be isolated". 

In the end I feel like this assignment was worth while because as Dr. Mcvery stated in the youtube video it gave me the opportunity to play around with CCSS a little bit more and gave me the chance to analyze and utilize these standards for an assignment.