Comments on: Wondering how to put Common Core into practice? It’s easier than you think. http://www.slj.com/2012/11/standards/common-core/putting-it-all-together-wondering-how-to-put-common-core-into-practice-its-easier-than-you-think/ The world's largest reviewer of books, multimedia, and technology for children and teens Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:19:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Common Core Cluster « Information Literacy Toolkit http://www.slj.com/2012/11/standards/common-core/putting-it-all-together-wondering-how-to-put-common-core-into-practice-its-easier-than-you-think/#comment-11746 Common Core Cluster « Information Literacy Toolkit Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:42:05 +0000 http://www.slj.com/?p=19037#comment-11746 [...] http://www.slj.com/2012/11/standards/common-core/putting-it-all-together-wondering-how-to-put-commo... [...] [...] http://www.slj.com/2012/11/standards/common-core/putting-it-all-together-wondering-how-to-put-commo… [...]

]]> By: Christy DeMeyer http://www.slj.com/2012/11/standards/common-core/putting-it-all-together-wondering-how-to-put-common-core-into-practice-its-easier-than-you-think/#comment-11150 Christy DeMeyer Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:40:44 +0000 http://www.slj.com/?p=19037#comment-11150 WOW! Congrats on the grant. I am following your blog and will look forward to the sharing of CCSS clusters. What a huge opportunity to collaborate with teachers and TL's nationally! WOW! Congrats on the grant. I am following your blog and will look forward to the sharing of CCSS clusters. What a huge opportunity to collaborate with teachers and TL’s nationally!

]]> By: Sue Bartle http://www.slj.com/2012/11/standards/common-core/putting-it-all-together-wondering-how-to-put-common-core-into-practice-its-easier-than-you-think/#comment-11092 Sue Bartle Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:45:06 +0000 http://www.slj.com/?p=19037#comment-11092 Christy, I see this as combination of all types of resources. It needs to be multimodal. Marc and I emphasis this in the Common Core workshops we present. Yes, it is the way to entice students back into the library catalog because the Common Core calls for reading stamina. I just attending a meeting today at my BOCES that discussed what the assessments would look like in New York this May and one thing that stuck out was the fact that students will be required to read longer and more rigorous passages on the assessments. Reading stamina is extremely important and you won’t build that with just articles or web-based resources. It needs to be a combination or as we say a “cluster”. How to bring it all together? You could start with Diigo or a list of links but we have great news for you! Marc and I as well as our colleagues in “The Uncommon Corps” have received an IMLS Sparks Grant and we are in blueprint design right now to create a nonfiction database where you will be able to create a cluster and work with other educators to do this as well as learn how to search NF in deeper context of how nonfiction books speak to us. Stay tuned for more details at our web site http://nonfictionandthecommoncore.blogspot.com/ Christy,
I see this as combination of all types of resources. It needs to be multimodal. Marc and I emphasis this in the Common Core workshops we present.
Yes, it is the way to entice students back into the library catalog because the Common Core calls for reading stamina. I just attending a meeting today at my BOCES that discussed what the assessments would look like in New York this May and one thing that stuck out was the fact that students will be required to read longer and more rigorous passages on the assessments. Reading stamina is extremely important and you won’t build that with just articles or web-based resources. It needs to be a combination or as we say a “cluster”.

How to bring it all together? You could start with Diigo or a list of links but we have great news for you! Marc and I as well as our colleagues in “The Uncommon Corps” have received an IMLS Sparks Grant and we are in blueprint design right now to create a nonfiction database where you will be able to create a cluster and work with other educators to do this as well as learn how to search NF in deeper context of how nonfiction books speak to us. Stay tuned for more details at our web site
http://nonfictionandthecommoncore.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Christy DeMeyer http://www.slj.com/2012/11/standards/common-core/putting-it-all-together-wondering-how-to-put-common-core-into-practice-its-easier-than-you-think/#comment-11078 Christy DeMeyer Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:40:52 +0000 http://www.slj.com/?p=19037#comment-11078 After reading this article, I am energized to get the resources together for this type of study. However, I would love advice on best practices on collecting and providing the digital content. My gut says it should somehow be tagged and searchable so students searching for the books on FDR also find the two linked articles, and video clips, and whatever other content I find online or is recommended in additional resources in the very books themselves. How best do we accomplish this? Diigo? Lists of links? Creating records for the library catalog where the digital content is added? I find my students gravitating away from the book resources and spending most of their time researching via computer. Could this be a way to entice them back to the library catalog and book resources that are complimented by the digital content? After reading this article, I am energized to get the resources together for this type of study. However, I would love advice on best practices on collecting and providing the digital content. My gut says it should somehow be tagged and searchable so students searching for the books on FDR also find the two linked articles, and video clips, and whatever other content I find online or is recommended in additional resources in the very books themselves. How best do we accomplish this? Diigo? Lists of links? Creating records for the library catalog where the digital content is added? I find my students gravitating away from the book resources and spending most of their time researching via computer. Could this be a way to entice them back to the library catalog and book resources that are complimented by the digital content?

]]> By: marc aronson http://www.slj.com/2012/11/standards/common-core/putting-it-all-together-wondering-how-to-put-common-core-into-practice-its-easier-than-you-think/#comment-8295 marc aronson Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:23:00 +0000 http://www.slj.com/?p=19037#comment-8295 great, please keep us informed on what is working -- and what isn't. We need to learn though what goes on in real time in real libraries. great, please keep us informed on what is working — and what isn’t. We need to learn though what goes on in real time in real libraries.

]]> By: andrea rudolph http://www.slj.com/2012/11/standards/common-core/putting-it-all-together-wondering-how-to-put-common-core-into-practice-its-easier-than-you-think/#comment-8244 andrea rudolph Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:43:01 +0000 http://www.slj.com/?p=19037#comment-8244 I attended your workshop in Rochester a few weeks ago andhave already tried a few of the ideas you suggested- with really positive results. I have to constantly replenish my non fiction/fiction book cluster display because kids are actually taking out the books. I have asked students to add to the display finding a favorite fiction or non fiction book and then searching for other books on the same topic. Thanks for the ideas in this blog as well. I hope you continue to write more articles like this with good specific ideas librarians can implement to support the Common Core- and, more importantly, engage student readers. I attended your workshop in Rochester a few weeks ago andhave already tried a few of the ideas you suggested- with really positive results. I have to constantly replenish my non fiction/fiction book cluster display because kids are actually taking out the books. I have asked students to add to the display finding a favorite fiction or non fiction book and then searching for other books on the same topic. Thanks for the ideas in this blog as well. I hope you continue to write more articles like this with good specific ideas librarians can implement to support the Common Core- and, more importantly, engage student readers.

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