The Common Core Companion: Booster Lessons, Grades K-2: Elevating Instruction Day by Day

Janiel Wagstaff

Sep 2015 · Corwin Press

About this ebook

You can find hundreds of literacy lessons in hundreds of places—but none of them will do for students what the ones in this book do. What’s the magic bullet? Potent integration.

Divided into five weeklong learning sequences, the 50 lessons span the ELA standards, bringing a Monday-through-Friday clarity to the sometimes mysterious process of skill-building through demonstrations and practice. Follow each sequence and week by week, you’ll build the instructional potency to help students achieve a year’s worth of growth as you integrate:

1. Writing Narratives with Identifying Sensory Words in Text
2. Research with Identifying Topic and Details
3. Opinion Writing with Close Reading for Text Evidence
4. Comparing and Contrasting with Publishing Using Digital Tools
5. Informative Writing with Use of Text Features

Each of the 50 lessons is eminently dippable. But if you want to do more extended instructional planning, there are lots of additional tools—including lists of mentor texts, and If/Then and Extending-the-Work charts—within the book and on the companion website: www.corwin.com/commoncorecompanion.

About the author

JANIEL WAGSTAFF is a popular national literacy consultant and K-6 English Language Arts Coordinator/Literacy Coach for her school district. She’s been an educator for 26 years and relishes her everyday work with teachers and students. Along the way, she’s written numerous instructional books for teachers and the picture book series Stella Writes. You can connect with Janiel on Facebook at “Janiel′s Literacy Wall,” follow her blog at www.janielwagstaff.blogspot.com, or join her on Twitter: @janielwagstaff.