Tools for Conquering the Common Core
Target the reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language skills at the heart of all college and career readiness standards.
“Tools for Conquering the Common Core enriches the learning experience for all my students, from my most skilled to my most challenged. My copy is full of Post-its and highlights, and it’s always close at hand. I don’t leave home without it!”
—Mary Jo Ferguson, 2008 Teacher of the Year, Ohio School Resource Officers Association (OSROA), Lorain City Schools, Lorain, OH
Tools for Conquering the Common Core
Classroom-Ready Techniques for Targeting the ELA/Literacy Standards
A simple and powerful way to target the development of students’ literacy skills
By Harvey F. Silver, Abigail L. Boutz
Tools for Conquering the Common Core is the ideal resource for meeting the challenge of more rigorous standards and tests. It provides 35 classroom-ready techniques for targeting the reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language skills that are at the heart of today’s ELA/literacy standards. With easy-to-follow steps, ready-to-go reproducibles, and classroom examples, this book empowers teachers to develop essential literacy skills without sacrificing their regular content and curriculum.
Not just for teachers using the Common Core Standards, Tools for Conquering the Common Core will help any teacher build the critical literacy skills embedded in all college and career readiness standards.
Every tool is structured around four key questions:
- What is it? A brief description of the tool and its purpose.
- What are the benefits of using this tool? A one-paragraph explanation of the challenge the tool addresses.
- What are the basic steps? A step-by-step description of how to implement the tool—never more than seven steps.
- How is this tool used in the classroom? A snapshot of the tool at work, with examples drawn from real classrooms.
PRODUCT CODE: TIC001
ISBN: 978-1-58584-218-9
PRICE: $29.95
The Tools for Today’s Educators Series
Our award-winning line of Tools books is founded on a recognition that too often goes unstated: teaching is hard work. That’s why we’ve spent over thirty-five years working with educators to turn the best educational research into practical techniques that are easy to implement in the classroom. We call these techniques tools because they’re designed to make the hard work of teaching easier and more effective.
