Common Core and Content Learning

From Choice Literacy:

A new podcast with Georgia Heard, who discusses the surprising connections between nonfiction, poetry, and the Common Core:

http://www.choiceliteracy.com/public/1708.cfm 

Persuasive writing is a key focus in the Common Core, and Heather Wolpert-Gawron has suggestions for minilessons to home in on persuasion skills:

http://bit.ly/sxOxPJ 

  

Franki Sibberson has suggestions for previewing nonfiction with students:

http://www.choiceliteracy.com/public/818.cfm 

Happy Clicking and Learning!