Good-bye Common Core: welcome "Next Generation Learning Standards." These revamped learning standards--devised by teachers, administrators, and parents--resesigned Common Core by merging some standards, moving other standards that were not age appropriate to different grade levels, and by just throwing some standards right out the window. The outcome is a healthier balance--yay! That means more FUN with our reading and writing selections. Creativity is BACK! 

READING: LITERATURE & NONFICTION

Standards in this strand focus on the following: 

• key ideas and details
• craft and structure
• integration of knowledge and ideas
• range of reading and level of text complexity

WRITING

Standards in this strand focus on the following: 

• text types and purposes
• production and distribution of writing
• research to build and present knowledge
• range of writing

SPEAKING & LISTENING

Standards in this strand focus on the following:

• comprehension and collaboration
• presentation of knowledge and ideas
  

LANGUAGE

Standards in this strand focus on the following:

• conventions of standard English
• knowledge of language
• vocabulary acquisition and use

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