Teaching Common Core English Language Arts Standards. Patricia M. Cunningham
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cunningham, Patricia Marr.
Teaching common core English language arts standards : 20 lesson frameworks for elementary grades / Patricia M. Cunningham, James W. Cunningham.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-936763-25-2 (perfect bound) 1. Language arts (Elementary)--Curricula--United States--States. 2. Language arts (Elementary)--Standards--United States--States. I. Title.
LB1576.C858 2015
372.6--dc23
2014021711
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Acknowledgments
Solution Tree Press would like to thank the following reviewers:
Tabetha Finchum
Fourth-Grade Teacher
Centennial Elementary School
Tucson, Arizona
Jane Ching Fung
First-Grade Teacher
Alexander Science Center School
Los Angeles, California
Brandi Leggett
Third-Grade Teacher
Prairie Ridge Elementary School
Shawnee, Kansas
Beth Maloney
Fifth-Grade Teacher
Sunset Hills Elementary School
Surprise, Arizona
Susan Carpenter O’Brien
Fifth-Grade Teacher
Weatherbee School
Hampden, Maine
Pam Reilly
Second-Grade Teacher
Woodbury Elementary School
Sandwich, Illinois
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Find It or Figure It Out
Chapter 5 Themes, Morals, and Lessons Learned
Chapter 6 Main Idea Tree
Chapter 7 Sequence / Cause and Effect
Chapter 8 Compare and Contrast
Chapter 9 Text Features Scavenger Hunt
Chapter 10 Preview-Predict-Confirm
Chapter 11 Point of View
Chapter 12 Poetry Aloud
Chapter 13 Plays Aloud
Chapter 14 Word Detectives
Chapter 15 Ten Important Words
Chapter 16 Be Your Own Editor
Chapter 17 What’s Your Opinion?
Chapter 18 Teach Me
Chapter 19 Tell Me a Story
Chapter 20 You’re the Expert!
References and Resources
Index
About the Authors
Patricia M. Cunningham, PhD, is a professor of education at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She has been an elementary school teacher, a reading specialist, and director of reading for a county school system.
Dr. Cunningham specializes in finding alternative ways to help struggling readers. She is author of Phonics They Use, What Really Matters in Spelling, What Really Matters in Writing, and What Really Matters in Vocabulary. She is coauthor of Classrooms That Work and Schools That Work.
She earned a master’s degree in reading from Florida State University and a doctorate in reading from the University of Georgia.
James W. Cunningham, PhD,