Core Knowledge Language Arts Sullivan County elementary schools in rural Tennessee are using CKLA to strengthen early literacy instruction, and getting school leaders involved to ensure lasting change.
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Core Knowledge Language Arts Through May 6th, it’s National Children’s Book Week, a great time to revisit favorite classics and an opportunity to explore the wide range of voices and perspectives in works by contemporary authors. We’d like to introduce you to the works of Jacqueline Woodson.
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Assessments and Accountability The Louisiana Department of Education announced a plan to develop a new reading test to pilot in five districts. The test incentivizes the kind of teaching and learning disadvantaged students need to close pernicious achievement gaps in ELA. The pilot signals the critical awareness that language proficiency is knowledge dependent, and that educational equity is not served by ignoring this or trying to wish it away.
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Education Theory Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, offers a succinct appreciation of three profound ideas that E. D. Hirsch, Jr. has contributed to the national discussion of education in America.
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News Please join us in wishing a very happy 90th birthday to the founder of Core Knowledge, E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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Curriculum The Core Knowledge Foundation has partnered with the Civics Renewal Network (CRN), an alliance of more than thirty nonprofit and nonpartisan organizations working to provide free online resources to educators for classroom instruction in civics.
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Core Knowledge Language Arts The Knowledge Strand of Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA) is now available on Nearpod, a digital lesson delivery platform that provides interactive experiences for both students and teachers. Find out more in this post from Amplify, the Core Knowledge Foundation’s publishing partner for CKLA.
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Curriculum Walk through the halls of Byrd Avenue Primary School and you’ll be surprised by the conversations kindergartners are having. You might overhear them chatting about ancient civilization, or exactly how the sandwiches they ate at lunch are digested by their bodies.
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Curriculum In 1987, two young researchers from Marquette University ran an experiment. Their results showed that even as many Language Arts programs emphasize “reading strategies,” knowledge counts much more than you might think when it comes to understanding text.
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Curriculum “I’m not opposed to teaching about families, but teaching content goes much deeper.” What we need, says Susan Lambert, specialist in Early Literacy, is content “that involves rich vocabulary and engrossing associated concepts—content that … leads to engaging and invigorating conversations.”
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