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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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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Core Knowledge Language Arts “The whole Core Knowledge movement is an attempt to offer all students, quite systematically, the general knowledge they need to be good readers and learners.”
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Curriculum Two online services, Quill and ReadWorks, are integrating Core Knowledge content into their tools for building Common Core-aligned reading and language arts skills.
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Core Knowledge Language Arts EdReports.org, an independent nonprofit organization that seeks to improve K-12 education by providing detailed reviews of instructional materials, has released its first round of reviews of English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum materials for Grades K-2. Among the six programs analyzed in this first round of reviews, two meet all criteria for alignment and usability in all…
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Core Knowledge Language Arts Deanna Zarichansky is the Assistant Principal at Trousdale County Elementary School in Hartsville, TN
Our district adopted Core Knowledge [Language Arts] at the beginning of this school year. This has been the single most powerful curriculum implementation I have seen in my 16 years of education. We are a small district with a high rate of poverty, with many students who enter school with little to no experiences with literacy…
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