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Im not yet an expert in the Common Core Standards. But I am in the process of learning absolutely everything I can about them. Right now, our team is hard at work on a grade-level-specic guide to using Scope for Common Core. In the meantime, Ive created this cheat sheet for myself, a list of 10 major ways I think the Standards are going to affect you and your studentsand how Scope will help! Kristin Lewis, Editor, Scope

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Your students will read many, many genres.

Fifty-ve percent of reading should be informational texts, such as literary nonction, history, science, primary documents, and biography. Forty-ve percent should be literary texts like ction, myths, poems, plays, folktales, and fables.
*All of these genres can be found in Scope.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE A true story from the past
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Your students will be challenged in their reading.

The word rigor appears all over the Standards, which place special emphasis on texts that can stretch your students reading abilities. Its all about text complexity and guiding students to become independent readers of increasingly challenging material.
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Anna remembers. And so many people had written stuff. So almost without thinking, Anna typed in a comment of her own: ummmmm . . . ew? Then she moved on, thinking nothing more about Maya and Mickey.

signals away.

when you say youll take out the garbage later . Over the phone, we can hear a change in a persons tone, or the ominous pause that sends a message to back off. Online communication takes all of these

your best friends blush when you mention a girl he likes, the ash of anger in your mothers eyes

The average teen sends more than 3,000 texts a month.

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from her homework, checking her Facebook page. Maya, a girl she knew from her seventh-grade class, had posted a photo of herself from a recent trip to Disney World. She was standing with Mickey Mouse.

Anna was completely It was just two words,

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nna* did not think she was being mean. Not really. She was taking a break Dozens of kids had commented on the picture. The rst few comments beneath the photo were sweet. Cute!

The next day, Anna was called to the assistant principals ofce. She stood in shock as the guidance counselor showed her a printout of all the comments on Mayas picture. Maya had been so distraught over the comments that she stayed home from school that day. Her mom had called the principal. And now every kid who had posted a joking or sarcastic comment was being called to the ofce one by one.

You dont see the impact of what you write, says Beth Yohe, an associate director for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which runs antibullying programs around the country.

This goes not only for jokes and snide comments like Annas, but also for more hostile behavior. Devon, 13, says that not long ago, a friend lashed out at her in a Facebook post. He said that I had spread rumors about him, Devon explains. I never did. But he wouldnt stop writing it. The posts,

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written in all capital letters and punctuated by endless exclamation points, made it seem like he was screaming in her face. Devon says the boy is a quiet kid, always really sweet. She points out that lots of kids act differently on Facebook than they do in person. I guess because I wasnt right there, she says, he just let it all out.

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So does this mean that Facebook is all about hurt feelings and wounded egos? Not at all. The online world has powerful benets, especially for kids who nd it hard to make friends at school. These kids can nd whole communities online where they feel comfortable, says Yohe. Online, kids will reach across social boundariesth e invisible walls that often separate one group of friends from another. Aaron, 12, says that his 459 Facebook friends

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Students will need to be close readers to achieve a deep understanding of a text. They must become experts at making inferences, analyzing information, and drawing conclusions.
*Scope articles help students develop close-reading

Students will 8 synthesize information from many sources.

Common Core requires students to integrate information from many sources into their writingincluding primary and secondary sources, as well as graphs, videos, digital texts, and more.
Scope stories are always paired with at least one
additional text. Our videos are a great way to incorporate digital media.

skills; our activities require higher-level thinking.

Not all skills are created equal.

Most likely youre already covering Common Core skills in some way. But Common Core turns some skills into superstars, including: Theme: identifying, comparing, and analyzing; explaining which details support the theme and how Authors craft: analyzing tone, purpose, word choice, and structure Comparing and contrasting: within a text, as well as across texts and genres Central ideas and supporting details: nding at least two central ideas in a nonction text Text structures: identifying text structures including cause/effect, problem/solution, chronology, compare/contrastand evaluating their effectiveness in organizing information Text features: interpreting photos, captions, headings, graphs, timelines, and maps

Your students will become sophisticated writers.

Whether its explanatory, argument, or narrative, writing is expected of students on a regular basis. They must write for different purposes and audiences and demonstrate mastery of language conventions, narrative techniques, and organizational structures. The Standards also specify grade by grade the language conventions that students need to know, from pronoun agreement to punctuation.
*Scopes Lazy Editor and skills sheets are fantastic ways

to reinforce grammar and revision skills, while Scope stories can be used as mentor texts.

*These skills are already front and center in Scope.

Get ready for more vocabulary.

You will connect ELA 10 to science and social studies.

Common Core emphasizes content knowledge in science and social studies, so you will need texts in these areas.
*Scope nonction articles are almost always drawn from social studies and science.

The Standards demand that students be able to navigate texts with challenging, or academic, vocabulary (and use it in their own writing). Theres also an emphasis on domain specic vocabularywords relating to content in specic elds such as science, social studies, technology, and the arts.

*Scope emphasizes vocabulary both in the magazine and throughout our support materials.

Argument writing takes center stage.

Common Core places special emphasis on developing logical arguments in writing. In fact, the Standards stipulate that 35 percent of student writing be argument-based!
*Every issue of Scope features a debate. Many of our

There are a few simple ways to start preparing yourself and your students. The most important, in my opinion, is getting kids accustomed to using text evidence. When you ask a question about a story or article, follow up with how do you know? Always have students point to specific examples and details from the text.
Were continuing to explore the Standards and will be sharing our insights. If youd like to talk to me directly about the Standards, Id love to connect.

You can get started now!

article-based prompts also require argument writing.

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