Common Core: Beyond the Basics - ELA
Audience: Teachers and Teacher Mentors
Take a look at this sample ELA question for fourth graders, a question which could be challenging even for some high school students:
Write or revise one or more paragraphs demonstrating ability to state opinions about topics or sources: set a context, organize ideas, develop supporting evidence/reasons and elaboration, or develop a conclusion appropriate to purpose and audience.
That's going to require a fundamental shift in how reading and writing are taught at the daily level. In the ELA portion of the Common Core: Beyond the Basics regional conference, teachers and instructional leaders will learn how to design lessons that build student ELA skills at the CCSS level, focusing on:
- Unpacking the CCSS ELA standards and understanding what students need to know
- Creating CCSS-aligned ELA learning goals and tracking student progress
- Best practices for introducing new ELA concepts, skills, and procedures, such as:
- Comprehension of key ideas and details
- Development of ideas
- Written expression organization
- Clarity of language
- Deepening student knowledge with ELA tasks involving reasoning, organization, and expression
- Building strategies for taking students to the cognitively complex CCSS level with tasks involving writing in real-world contexts and scenarios
Registration Fee: $529 (iObservation Members) , $579 (Non-Members)
General Registration Information
Choose Your Conference Location:
Registration Deadline: two weeks before conference dates
- Orlando, FL - May 14-16
- Columbus, OH - July 9-11
Location:
DoubleTree by Hilton
175 Hutchinson Avenue
Columbus, OH 43235
Phone: 614-885-3334 - Boca Raton, FL - July 9-11
Location:
Safe Schools Institute
1790 NW Spanish River Blvd.
Boca Raton, FL 33431
- Oklahoma City, OK - July 24-26
Location:
Francis Tuttle Technology Center
Rockwell Campus
Northwest Hall
12777 N. Rockwell Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK 73142
