Texts, Tasks, and Talk

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n Texts, Tasks, and Talk: Instruction to Meet  the Common Core in Grades 9–12, Brad Cawn takes a focused look at the disconnect between school standards and classroom instruction. The book examines how to fully align teaching with the intellectual demand of next-generation standards—by pairing instructional goals with high-quality texts, tasks, and talk. It also provides strategies for how to do so, including five key steps for organizing curriculum according to next-generation standards. Through this deliberate selection of texts, creation of tasks, and focus on high-quality talk, students gain the literacy skills they need to succeed.

—SHERRI GOULD Literacy Coach, Nokomis Regional High, Newport, Maine

—BRAD CAWN From the Introduction

• Ask questions that can direct brainstorming and development of text sets • Discover how to build an effective text staircase in order to support literacy engagement • Consider examples of inquiry frames and then match the frames to the standards and implement them • Find out what kinds of discussion structures encourage students to exercise independence and proficiency • Understand what close reading means and discover four close-reading protocols • Examine how collaboration is at the core of instruction for next-generation standards Visit go.solution-tree.com/commoncore to download the reproducibles in this book. solution-tree.com

Brad Cawn

“This book is about the work of standardsaligned instruction—the design, delivery, and deepening of teaching that is up to standard. . . . The measure for change is not magic; it’s simply the act of coming to a deep understanding of what students are expected to know and do (your standards), coupled with a deep understanding about what you know as a teacher and what you do as a leader and content expert.”

• Learn how to align teaching with next-generation standards

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“Texts, Tasks, and Talk offers teachers practical applications in a manageable form—it does not need to be read cover to cover to be useful. It is applicable to those just beginning to familiarize themselves with standards as well as to those who have been immersed in the work for some time.”

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Grades 9–12 teachers, coaches, and curriculum leaders will:

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