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Writing an Exemplar Reading Lesson Grades 3-5 MDCPS Division of Language Arts/Reading November 2012 Slide 2 Purpose of Common Standards To improve U.S. educational attainment by focusing schools on higher learning goals To standardize educational opportunity To focus attention on fewer, higher, better standards (more on outcomes than on processes) Slide 3 What Makes These Standards Special ? Independent analysis indicates that they are more rigorous/demanding than the standards of 37 States Internationally benchmarked Include all grades (K-12) and emphasize disciplinary literacy Increased stress on expository text, critical reading, and use of technology Recognizes importance of text difficulty and the value of canonical text Slide 4 Floridas Common Core State Standards Implementation Timeline FL FL FL FL FL BL (3 rd ) Miami-Dades Slide 5 Lets Explore The Common Core! Slide 6 Evidence Main Idea Interaction Vocabulary Structure Point of View Multiple Media Multiple Text Text Complexity N/A Slide 7 Slide 8 Slide 9 Slide 10 reason/support Slide 11 Slide 12 Slide 13 Pacing Guides Slide 14 Considerations of Text Complexity Quantitative Measures Readability Measures (like Lexile) Word frequency - < less common words = more complex < more common words = less complex Syntactic complexity - < % of longer sentences = more complex