Sentences with phrase «standard poetry reading»

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Given the new demands levied by the Common Core standards, teammates and ’14 master's degree graduates Taylor Percival, Michelle Skinner, and Jessica Yarmosky are busy with CommonLit, a free online library for middle school teachers to help them easily find news articles, poetry, and other short texts aligned with the Common Core curriculum that help build reading skills across a wide array of abilities.

I've also added reading and analyzing poetry as more of a standard practice to teach vocabulary, comprehension, and creative writing (not just a genre study).

Compared with Massachusetts» former standards, Common Core» s English standards reduce by 60 % the amount of classic literature, poetry and drama that students will read.

The state's reading tests should include not just fiction and poetry but nonfiction readings on those topics and others culled from those specific curriculum standards.

After a two - month period (40 consecutive school days) implementing this poetry lesson plan, Ms. Eikenberry found that her third graders made over a year's worth of growth in reading achievement as measured by the i - Ready reading comprehension standards, while her fourth grade students made more than three - quarters of a year's growth.

What are your suggestions for the frustrated teacher who states, «Today the Common Core standards emphasize expository reading and writing; tomorrow a new reform will reverse the trend and promote more fiction and poetry» (p. 121)?

For instance, the Common Core ELA standards require that third graders be able to» [r] ead grade - level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.»

By sixth grade, the standards become more detailed and specific, including understanding figurative and connotative meanings of words; analyzing the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone; considering how a particular stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme; and contrasting the reading and multimedia experience of a text and various forms or types of poetry in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.

Ursel has set herself a high standard and I look forward to being enriched in my reading of her future novels and existing flash fiction and poetry (see her website).