Mapping Comprehensive Units to the Ela Common Core Standards, 6-12 - Paperback

by Kathy Tuchman Glass (Author)

Your blueprint for skilled Common Core literacy alignment!

Learn to artfully navigate Common Core - or any state/province - standards with concrete, step-by-step instruction from master teacher and curriculum specialist, Kathy Tuchman Glass. Confidently map a unit of study aligned to Common Core's rigorous, evidence-based writing and reading requirements. Dive into in-depth analyses of informational text with supporting essential questions. Glass walks you through the entire process with manageable chunks that eliminate overwhelm.

Chapters include thorough explanations, step-by-step exercises, and detailed templates, assessments, charts, tips, and prompts centered around key CCCS concepts for grades 6-12.

Teachers, curriculum committees, grade level teams, and professional development leaders will learn to:

• Challenge and engage students in all content areas using the CCCS ELA framework
• Use existing curriculum and materials to design new, CCCS-aligned units of study
• Identify mandatory CCCS ELA essential understandings for informational text, evidence-based writing and other critical competencies
• Conduct resource-rich workshops and professional development

This all-in-one instructional guide, with a companion website for extra help, improves your professional capacity to create, revise, or critique quality-driven units and lessons aligned to the ELA Common Core. Get this essential blueprint to building high quality 6-12 grade-level curriculum for skilled CCCS literacy-aligned success!

"Like them or hate them, the Common Core Standards represent one of the most significant opportunities for improvement schools have faced in decades. This book will be a great help to anyone engaged in the act of translating the Common Core into actual teaching practices."
--Jim Knight, Author of High-Impact Instruction

Author Biography

Kathy Tuchman Glass consults nationally with schools and districts, presents at conferences, and teaches seminars for university and county programs delivering customized professional development. A former master teacher, she has been in education for over twenty years and works with administrators and teachers in groups of varying sizes from one-on-one to entire school districts, from kindergarten through high school. She leads and collaborates with educators to assist with strategic planning to determine school or district objectives; design standards-based differentiated curriculum; craft essential understandings and guiding questions; use compelling instructional strategies that engage all learners; incorporate effective pre-, formative, and summative assessments into curriculum; use six-trait writing instruction and assessment; create unit or yearlong curriculum maps using state or Common Core Standards; and more.

In addition to Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, K-5, she has written Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9 (2009), Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (2007), and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics (2005), and has coauthored the Staff Development Guide for the Parellel Curriculum (2009) with Cindy Strickland. In addition, she served as a differentiation consultant for Pearson Learning′s social studies textbook series for K-5 ((c) 2013).

Originally from Indianapolis, Kathy resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her website is www.kathyglassconsulting.com.