Chapter 1. The promise and the peril of the Common Core State Standards -- Chapter 2. Old wine in broken bottles: the Common Core State Standards and "Zombie" -- Chapter 3. Using the most powerful resource we have for teaching students something -- Chapter 4. Teaching for transfer: why students need to learn how to attend to any text -- Chapter 5. No text is an island: how to get students farther with text-by-text sequencing -- Chapter 6. Aiming for complex interpretation: how to be street smart about choosing complex texts -- Chapter 7. Putting our money where our mouths are: our unit for teaching "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."
Summary
Leave instruction to the experts!Uncommon Core puts us on high-alert about some outright dangerous misunderstandings looming around so-called "standards-aligned" instruction, then shows us how to steer past them-all in service of meeting the real intent of the Common Core. It counters with teaching suggestions that are true to the research and true to our students, including how: Reader-based approaches can complement text-based ones Prereading activities can help students meet the strategic and conceptual demands of texts Strategy instruction can result in a careful and critical an
