Common Core Literacy for ELA, HistorySocial Studies, and the Humanities by Katherine S. McKnight

Author:Katherine S. McKnight [Mcknight, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118710265
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

Generally the language standards contain a strong focus on the ability to effectively use Standard English through a wide variety of tasks and contexts. Vocabulary development is expected in the language standards. Both of these expectations support the development of student literacy skills and content knowledge. The introduction to the sixth through twelfth grade language standards explains these expectations in greater detail:

To be college and career ready in language, students must have firm control over the conventions of standard English. . . . They must also have extensive vocabularies, built through reading and study, enabling them to comprehend complex texts and engage in purposeful writing about and conversations around content. They need to become skilled in determining or clarifying the meaning of words and phrases they encounter, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies to aid them. They must learn to see an individual word as part of a network of other words—words, for example, that have similar denotations but different connotations. The inclusion of language standards in their own strand should not be taken as an indication that skills related to conventions, effective language use, and vocabulary are unimportant to reading, writing, speaking, and listening; indeed, they are inseparable from such contexts. (emphasis added)

(CCSS 2010, p. 51)

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