Common Core State Standards for Grade 9: Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities

Common Core State Standards for Grade 9: Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities is designed to help teachers address Common Core standards using effective, research-based instructional strategies in combination with ready-to-use activities. These strategies include identifying similarities and differences, writing summaries and taking notes, creating non-linguistic representations, and suggestions for homework and practice. There are a variety of suggested texts as well as identified text exemplars that can easily be used with the strategies and activities. Some additional key features of this book include: Each instructional strategy is described in detail and includes lists of activities that would complement the strategy.A list of standards and strands is given for each grade level.Chapters are designed to focus on specific strands and contain lists of detailed activities for the standards within the strand.Many activities address multiple standards within the activity.Each activity contains focus standards and many contain suggested works.Standards citations are listed at the end of each activity.Many standards are addressed more than once throughout the strands.Sample activity formats and questions can be found in the appendix.

Table of Contents:
Contents Introduction 1 Instructional Strategies and Activities: An Overview 2 Grades 9-10 Common Core State Standards 3 Grades 9-10 Common Core State Standards Text Exemplars 4 Grade 9 Strategies and Activities for Reading Literature 5 Grade 9 Strategies and Activities for Reading Informational Text 6 Grade 9 Strategies and Activities for Writing 7 Grade 9 Strategies and Activities for Speaking and Listening 8 Grade 9 Strategies and Activities for Language 9 Grade 9 Strategies and Activities for Reading Literacy in History/Social Studies 10 Grade 9 Strategies and Activities for Reading Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects 11 Grade 9 Strategies and Activities for Writing Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Appendix A: Summary Frames Appendix B: Position Paper Format Appendix C: Stem Questions Appendix D: Hypothesis Worksheet Appendix E: Primary Source Analysis Appendix F: SMART Goals Appendix G: Products and Performances List Appendix H: Verbs to Question References About the Author

About the Author :
Michelle Manville taught elementary and middle school for 16 years in Missouri and served as the curriculum coordinator for her district for 10 years. She also served on many local and state curriculum committees and was a Missouri Select Teacher as Regional Resource curriculum trainer for two years.

Review :
I am excited to have Manville’s book as a rich resource for my teachers as we continue our transition to the CCSSs in our district. Teachers will immediately appreciate the multitude of activities, especially as they are asked this year to implement new activities on each under-touched Common Core standard and on standards on which students are underperforming. As the person responsible for curriculum and instruction, I can be confident that Manville’s laser-like attention to providing only research-based activities will help ensure success! Classroom teachers and reading specialists will find these new resource books full of rich and targeted activities designed to strengthen students’ skills as they meet the requirements of the Common Core State Standards. Michelle Manville is a consummate professional Missouri educator who understands student needs and suggests effective strategies and literature to meet them. The skills learned from Manville’s ninth-grade literacy and writing activities for history and social studies will be very beneficial to freshmen students in their geography and English courses. Today's classroom teachers are eager to help students not just meet but master the standards, but many are unprepared, ill-equipped, or misguided. This book solves that problem. Michelle Manville provides ELA teachers with a wealth of useful resources and research-based strategies that allows them to deliver rigorous, meaningful, and creative instruction in their classrooms.