Guest SpeakerJan Snyder - District Media Specialist, Oregon City Schools

Is Your Library Common Core Aligned?

Common Core State Standards

• Adopted by 45 states• Will be fully

implemented fall of 2014

• Not a ‘how to’ but ‘end result’

• Layered complexity

• http://www.corestandards.org/.

What is the goal of CCSS?

Glen WarrenVice President of Government RelationsCalifornia School Library Association

What is the Library’s Role?

• Support classroom instruction

• Team with teachers in joint instruction

• Provide resources to support CCSS both in print and digitally

• Be aware of the new ‘stretched’ Lexile ranges

What is the big ‘hoopla’ about infomational text?

• Critical reading

• Specific skills

• Percentage of time in informational text

Standards Progression

• Same standard across grade levels

• Increased layers of complexity across grades

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.9 Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures). (grade 1)

CSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.9 Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic. (grade 3)

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.9 Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. (grade 5)

Where are the gaps in my collection?

What does ‘Common Core Aligned’ mean?

Digital Support of CCSS

• Databases• eBook collections• Online video streaming• Joint partners with public libraries (get library

cards in the hands of students)

Digital Support Through Databases

Digital Support Through eBook Collections

• Follett Shelf • Overdrive • Mackin VIA (free sample collection)

• Capstone (free sample collection)

• Many, many vendors

Ebook Databases – TumbleBooks

• TumbleBooks

How can I help teachers through my library?

Non-Fiction Text Grade 5 has two non-fiction units: “Space”, which includes Black Hole is not a Hole by Carolyn DeCristofano and Black Holes by Ker Than. “Inventions” include the titles Girls think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh, and Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions by Don Wulffson.   Theme 1: Space (5.RI.5.1, 5.RI.5.2, 5.RI.5.3, 5.RI.5.4, 5.RI.5.5, 5.RI.5.6, 5.RI.5.8, 5.RI.5.9) Black Hole is not a Hole by Carolyn DeCristofano (Lexile 900) (new title)Black Holes by Ker Than (Lexile 940) (new title)

Paired titles and CCSS corelations

This set of paired texts explores black holes in space. Additional features include charts, diagrams, space photographs, a bibliography, index, glossary, timeline, additional resources and web sites. They meet a number of 5th grade information text standards. In particular Literacy.RI.5.4, 5 and 6 standards are met through comparing and contrasting the overall structure of concepts or information in two or more texts, the opportunity to analyze multiple accounts of the same topic, and standard RI.5.9 which integrates information from several texts on the same topic.

Key Ideas and Details:CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.Craft and Structure:CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.5 Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.

Titles selected for grade 2

Theme 1: How it Works (2.RI.1, 2.RI.2, 2.RI.3, 2.RI.5, 2.RI.6, 2.RI.7, 2.RI.8)Castle: How it Works by David Macaulay (500L) (new title)Jet Plane: How it Works by David Macaulay (560L) (new title)

Theme 2: Symmetry (2.RI.2.4, 2.RI.2.5, 2.RI.2.7)Seeing Symmetry by Loreen Leedy (640L) (new title)

Titles selected for grade 3

Theme 1: Space Exploration (3RI.3.1, 3.RI.3.2, 3.RI.3.3, 3.RI.3.4, 3.RI.3.5, 3.RI.3.7 3.RI.3.9) Destined for Space: Our Story of Exploration by Don Nardo (NC720L) (new title)Space Exploration by Christine Dugan (780L) (new title)

Theme 2: Interpreting Charts and Graphs (3.RI.3.4, 3.RI.3.7) (3.MD.B.3, 3.MD.B.4)Tiger Math: Learning to Graph From a Baby Tiger by Ann Whitehead Magda (810L) (new title)

Titles selected for grade 4

Theme 2: Animals (4.RI.4.5 4.RI.4.7, 4.RI.4.8)Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia by Sy Montgomery (840L) (new title)

Theme 1: Earthquakes (4.RI.1,, 4.RI.3, 4.RI.4.4, 4.RI.7, 4.RI.4.9, 4.L.6, CCRA.R.9)Earthquakes by Ker Than (Lexile 890) (new title)Surviving Earthquakes by Michael Burgan (Lexile NC850L) (new title)

Titles selected for grade 5

Theme 1: Space (5.RI.5.2, 5.RI.5.3, 5.RI.5.4, 5.RI.5.5, 5.RI.5.6, 5.RI.5.9) Black Hole is not a Hole by Carolyn DeCristofano (Lexile 900) (new title)Black Holes by Ker Than (Lexile 940) (new title)

Theme 2: Inventions (5.RI.5.1, 5.RI.5.2 5.RI.5.5, 5.RI.5.8)Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh (Lexile 960) (new title)Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions by Don Wulffson (Lexile 920) (new title)

Titles selected for grade 6

Theme 1: Chicago Fire (6.RI.6.2 6.RI.6.3, 6.RI.6.6, 6.RI.6.8 6.RI.6.9, 6.RH.6-8.5, 6.RH.6-8.8)Great Chicago Fire by Lisa Owens (Lexile 1010) The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Lexile 1130)

Titles selected for grade 7

Theme 1: Holocaust (7.RI.7.1, 7RI.7.2, 7.RI.7.3, 7.RI.7.5, 7.RI.7.6, 7.RI.7.8, 7.RI.7.9, RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.5, RH.6-8.7, RH.6-8.8)Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport (Lexile 1030)Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Lexile 1050)

Titles selected for grade 8

Theme 1: Titanic (8.RI.8.3, 8.RI.8.6, 8.RI.8.8, RH.6-8.1, RH6-8.5, RH.6-8.6, RH.6-8.7, RH.6-8.8)Iceberg Right Ahead! The Tragedy of the Titanic by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson (Lexile 1070)Titanic: Voices From the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson (Lexile 1040)

What’s next??

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