Libraries and the Utah Core Standards

Objective: We will identify why we should implement and how to implement the common core in the library setting with the help of the Big 6TM

Common Core State Standards Initiative

Preparing America’s Students for College & Career

Key Design Considerations of the Common Core

Research and media skills blended into the Standards as a whole

▪ “The need to conduct research and to produce and consume media is embedded into every aspect of today’s curriculum. In like fashion, research and media skills and understandings are embedded throughout the Standards rather than treated in a separate section.”

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Common Core State Standards InitiativePreparing America’s Students for College & Career

Students who are college and career ready in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language can….

“…respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline.”

“…comprehend as well as critique.” (Analyze)

“…value evidence.” (Cite Sources)

“…use technology and digital media strategically and capably.”

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Common Core State Standards InitiativePreparing America’s Students for College & Career

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing

(1) “…use valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.”

(6) “Use technology, including the internet…”

(7) “Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.”

(8) “Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.”

(9) “Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.”

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The Utah Core StandardsKey Features of the Standards Reading

“…making an increasing number of connections among ideas and between texts, considering a wider rage of textual evidence….”

Writing “…write about evidence from literary and informational texts.

Because of the centrality of writing to most forms of inquiry, research standards are prominently included in this strand, though skills important to research are infused throughout the document.”

Speaking and Listening “Students must learn to work together, express and listen carefully to

ideas, integrate information from oral, visual, quantitative, and media sources, evaluate what they hear, use media and visual displays strategically to help achieve communicative purposes, and adapt speech to context and task.”

Language “The vocabulary standards focus on understanding words and

phrases…particularly general academic and domain-specific words and phrases.”

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The Utah Core StandardsCollege and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing

1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposed, and audiences.

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Foundational Skills Needed

Students need to know how to extract information Use Wonderopolis on Pioneer for an easy lesson on

extracting information

Students need to know how to compare and contrast Use World Book on Pioneer (Explore, compare places) for an

easy lesson on compare and contrast

Students need to know how to organize information Do the old party game of items on a platter for an easy

lesson on organizing information

Students need to know how to evaluate their sources Do a lesson on Urban Legends

Kaplan Matrix for Extending the Curriculum

Content or Concept

Knowledge

Comprehension

Application

Analysis

Synthesis

Weather and climate

Name the different type of clouds.

Contrast the weather from the Southwest to the Southeast.

Chart the amount of rainfall for the next week.

What effect did El Nino have on the world’s weather?

Create a wind generator.

(Orlich, Harder, Callahan, Trevisan & Brown, 2013)

Utah Library Core Curriculum

Three Strands

Information Literacy

Literature

Media Literacy

Big 6

Super 3

TECHNOLOGY

Reading Comprehension

THEME, PERSPECTIVE, SEQUENCE

Expository Text

ELEMENTS OF A STORY

Informed Decision MakingUNDERSTAND BIAS

Evaluate SourcesFACT AND OPINION

The Big 6TM

1. Task Definition What am I doing and by when?

2. Information Seeking Strategies Make a plan!

3. Location and AccessFind what you need for your project!

4. Use of Information Select and organize what you found!

5. Synthesis Make the project!

6. Evaluation Think again! How can I make it

better?

I need to remember my task as I do the other steps!

(The Big 6, 2012)

Day to Day Big 6 TM

Ideas to Teach the Big 6TM

Use the Big 6 template for each lesson

Focus on selecting and organizing information Magazine pictures

▪ ABC, story, size, some may edit List Game

Focus on evaluation Make a check list in step two and use it

in step six Allow enough time

Super 3 Plan

Think of ideas Ask questions Make a list

Do Get help or supplies Start the plan

Review Check your list What would make it better for now or the

next time?(The Big 6, 2012)

Super 3TM

Citing Sources According to The Big 6 TM

PreK-1 Use a picture, stamp, icon, or sticker to identify type of source

1-2 In addition to the above, write the name of the type of source

2-3 Now add the author and no longer do the graphic

3-4 Add the date. The order is now: author, title, type of source, date.

5-6 Add location to the above (The Big 6, 2012)

Ideas for Going Deeper

Double sided journals

Instead of a research topic, give an essential question to the students

Have students show a connection

Include an application component to the research project

Quote Club

Teaches students to identify key information and to extract it.

Graphic Organizer Ideas

Include a summary box

Graphic Organizers

Character Analysis How does knowing the character help the reader to predict?

Graphic Organizers

Graphic Organizers

Graphic Organizers

ReferencesThe big 6 (2012). Retrieved from http://big6.com

The Council of chief State School Officers and the

National Governors Association Center for Best

Practices. (2010). Common core state standards for

English language arts & literacy in history/social studies,

science, and technical subjects.

Orlich, D. C., Harder, R. J., Callahan, R. C., Trevisan, M. S., & Brown, A. H. (2013). Teaching

strategies: A guide to effective instruction. (10 ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage

Learning.

Utah State Office of Education. (2012). Core standards for English language arts and literacy in

history/social studies, science, and technical subjects. Retrieved from

http://

www.schools.utah.gov/CURR/langartsec/Language-Arts-Secondary-Home/LangArts-CE-web.aspx