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Lynne's Picks

__Pathway____s__ __t____o the Common Core__ __Accelerating Achievement__ Lucky Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth and Christopher Lehman Designed for teachers, school leaders, and professional learning communities looking to navigate the gap between their current literacy practices and the ideals of the Common Core, //Pathways to the Common Core// will help you:
 * understand what the standards say, suggest, and what they don't say;
 * recognize the guiding principles that underpin the reading and writing standards;
 * identify how the Common Core's infrastructure supports a spiraling K-12 literacy curriculum; and
 * scrutinize the context in which the CCSS were written and are being unrolled.

In addition to offering an analytical study of the standards, this guide will also help you and your colleagues implement the standards in ways that lift the level of teaching and learning throughout your school. Specifically, it will help you: comprehension skills, and writing at the ambitious levels of the CCSS;
 * become a more critical consumer of the "standards-based" mandates that are flooding your desk;
 * craft instruction that supports students in reading more complex texts, developing higher level
 * develop performance assessments and other tools to propel Common Core reforms; and
 * create systems of continuous improvement that are transparent, collegial, and accountable.

Above all, this book will help you interpret the Common Core as a rallying cry that ignites deep, wide and lasting reforms and, most importantly, accelerates student achievement

__The Core Six__ __Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core__ Harvey F. Silver, R.Thomas Dewing and Matthew J. Perini Enter the Core Six: six research-based, classroom-proven strategies that will help you and your students respond to the demands of the Common Core. Thanks to more than 40 years of research and hands-on classroom testing, the authors know the best strategies to increase student engagement and achievement and prepare students for college and career. Best of all, these strategies can be used across all grade levels and subject areas.

The Core Six include 1. Reading for Meaning. 2. Compare & Contrast. 3. Inductive Learning. 4. Circle of Knowledge. 5. Write to Learn. 6. Vocabulary's CODE.

For each strategy, this practical book provides
 * Reasons for using the strategy to address the goals of the Common Core.
 * The research behind the strategy.
 * A checklist for implementing the strategy in the classroom.
 * Multiple sample lessons that illustrate the strategy in action.
 * Planning considerations to ensure your effective use of the strategy.

Any strategy can fall flat in the classroom. By offering tips on how to capture students' interest, deepen students' understanding of each strategy, use discussion and questioning techniques to extend student thinking, and ask students to synthesize and transfer their learning, The Core Six will ensure that your instruction is inspired rather than tired.