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Subject: [aaslforum] RE: research simulation task on the new Common Core ELA assessments

Date: March 9, 2013 12:21:15 PM EST

Dear Patricia and All,

I, too, am hoping that school librarians will take further steps toward maximizing their knowledge and practice of coteaching reading comprehension strategies and writing (two sides of the same coin). If children and youth are not comprehending the information they access, inquiry simply cannot happen.

One of the big challenges is that few classroom teachers and school librarians have had the experience of observing or practicing coteaching. Just as students learn from modeling, by imitiation, and from practice so do adults.

My last two posted on our Building a Culture of Collaboration Blog have focused on coteaching strategies. To my way of thinking, the "how" of what we do as instructional partners is equally important to "what" we do.

Coteaching: What Does It Look Like: http://cultureofcollaboration.edublogs.org/2013/03/07/coteaching-what-does-it-look-like/

Coteaching Models: http://cultureofcollaboration.edublogs.org/2013/03/09/coteaching-models/

Best,

Judi

P.S. Thank you, Patricia, for the shoutout for my secondary book. The revised elementary book will be available this summer. While my books focus on coteaching reading strategies, all of the sample lesson plans in both books involve educators in modeling writing and students in developing writing skills.

Judi Moreillon, M.L.S., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies
Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX

http://cultureofcollaboration.edublogs.org/

New Publication Available:

Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Secondary School Libraries: Maximizing Your Impact (2012)

Author:
Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Maximizing Your Impact, Sing Down the Rain, and Read to Me/Vamos a leer

http://storytrail.com
info@storytrail.com

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Subject: [aaslforum] research simulation task on the new Common Core
ELA assessments
From: "Sarles Patricia (18K500)" <PSarles@schools.nyc.gov>
Date: Thu, March 07, 2013 5:31 am
To: "aaslforum@ala.org" <aaslforum@ala.org>

I just finished doing a lot of self-educating about the new Common Core ELA assessments, in particular the Research Simulation Tasks and Performance Tasks that will both be a part of the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, the two consortia that are designing these new tests which will begin in 2014-2015.

I think school librarians can contribute enormously to helping teachers and students prepare for the research simulation portion of these assessments. For the PARCC test for example, the Research Simulation Task is one third of the test, and for Smarter Balanced's test, one fourth of the test.

So I am thinking that Judi Moreillon's book:

Coteaching reading comprehension strategies in secondary school libraries : maximizing your impact
by Judi Moreillon
Chicago : American Library Association, 2012.

looks like a good book for preparing me to help my teachers and students with this part of the test.

Does anyone know of a comparable book that would help librarians with co-teaching writing, in particular for grades 6-12? Students will have to write "two analytic essays" for the Research Simulation Task after "analyzing an informational topic" for the PARCC test for example, and if I can help with that that'd be great as well.

Thanks,
Patricia

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Patricia Sarles, MA, MLS
Librarian
Jerome Parker Campus Library
100 Essex Drive
Staten Island, NY 10314
718-370-6900 x1322
psarles@schools.nyc.gov
http://www.scoop.it/t/help-with-the-common-core-state-standards/
http://paper.li/psarles/1332609247

The new power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of the many. - John Naisbitt, Megatrends

The Internet may be the world's greatest library, but let's face it - all the books are scattered on the floor. - D.C. Denison, Boston Globe

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - Mitchell Kapor

To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction ... The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The Purpose of Education