English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

1. English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

3. Outcomes • Today you will identify the Key Considerations of the Montana Common Core Standards (MCCS) • Recognize the Key Features of MCCS • Familiarize yourself with new vocabulary of theMCCS • Examine MCCS at grade level • Explore the shifts that occur within the English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects of the MCCS.

4. Key Design Considerations • College and Career Ready and grade-specific standards • Grade levels for K–8; grade bands for 9–10 and 11–12 • An integrated model of literacy • Research and media skills blended into the Standards as a whole • Integration of American Indian Education For All • Shared responsibility for students’ literacy development • A focus on the results rather than means

5. Key Design Considerationsof Montana Common Core Standards Shared responsibility for students’ literacy development

6. Key Design Considerationsof Montana Common Core Standards • A focus on the results rather than means • By emphasizing required achievements, the Standards leave room for teachers, curriculum developers, and states to determine how those goals should be reached and what additional topics should be addressed. • Teachers are thus free to provide students with whatever tools and knowledge their professional judgment and experience identify as most helpful for meeting the goals set out in the Standards. Montana teachers can use American Indian topics, resources, and literature to meet standards, even where Indian Education for All is not specifically mentioned.

7. Topics Strand Standard Statement

8. Key Features of the Montana Common Core Standards Strands • Reading • Literature and • Informational Text • Writing • Speaking and Listening • Language

9. College and Career Ready Anchor Standards

11. BreakPlease take 15minutes

12. Shifts in English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects

13. English Language Arts and Literacy Shifts

14. Montana Common Core StandardsEnglish Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects • The Shifts • 1. K-5 Balancing Informational and Literary Texts • Students read a true balance of informational and literary texts. Elementary school classrooms are places where students access the world – science, social studies, the arts and literature – through text. At least 50 percent of what students read is informational.

16. Montana Common Core StandardsEnglish Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects • The Shifts • 2. 6-12 Knowledge in the Content Areas • Content area teachers outside of the ELA classroom emphasize literacy experiences in their planning and instruction. Students learn through domain-specific texts in science and social studies classrooms, rather than referring to the text, they are expected to learn from what they read.

17. Building Knowledge in the Disciplines Shifts in ELA by EngageNY

18. Montana Common Core StandardsEnglish Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects • The Shifts • 3. Staircase of Complexity • In order to prepare students for the complexity of college and career-ready texts, each grade level requires a “step” of growth on the “staircase.” Students read the central, grade-appropriate text around which instruction is centered. Teachers are patient; they create more time and space in the curriculum for this close and careful reading, and provide appropriate and necessary scaffolding and supports so the text is possible for students reading below grade level to read.

20. Montana Common Core StandardsEnglish Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects • The Shifts • 4. Text-based Answers • Students have rich and rigorous conversations which are dependent on all students reading a common text. Teachers insist that classroom experiences stay deeply connected to the text and that students develop habits for making evidentiary arguments based on the text both in conversation as well as in writing, to assess their comprehension of a text.

21. Montana Common Core StandardsEnglish Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects • The Shifts • 5. Writing from Sources • Writing needs to emphasize use of evidence to inform or make an argument rather than the personal narrative and other forms of decontextualized prompts. While the narrative still has an important role, students develop skills through written arguments that respond to the ideas, events, facts and arguments presented in the texts they read.

22. Montana Common Core StandardsEnglish Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects • The Shifts • 6. Academic Vocabulary • Students constantly build the vocabulary they need to be able to access grade-level complex texts. By focusing strategically on comprehension of pivotal and commonly found words (such as “discourse,” “generation,” “theory,” and “principled”) teachers constantly build students’ ability to access more complex texts across the content areas.

24. Outcomes • Today you will identify the Key Considerations of the Montana Common Core Standards (MCCS) • Recognize the Key Features of MCCS • Familiarize yourself with new vocabulary of theMCCS • Examine MCCS at grade level • Explore the shifts that occur within the English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects of the MCCS.