Silver Medal Award Winner--ForeWord Review"s 2012 Book of the Year in EducationExplore strategies for integrating the Common Core State Standards for English language arts for grades K-2 in this interdisciplinary resource, which focuses on areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention. You"ll also learn how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at Work process. Critical chapter-opening questions guide discussion and help you leverage the CCSS to optimize student learning. Benefits - Master the CCSS for English language arts, and develop common understandings to strengthen instructional practice. - Learn the five fundamental shifts in literacy instruction necessary to enhance students" language development. - Plan successful collaborative team meetings with a variety of reproducibles to examine the standards. - Gain tools to reflect on and assess students" knowledge and understanding of writing, reading, speaking and listening, and using language. - Obtain sample student activities and peer response forms for individual and group work. - Discover how to use the CCSS to support English learners and students with special needs. - Develop high-quality formative and summative assessment strategies, including tasks for speaking and listening, questioning, writing, designing projects and presentations, and giving feedback. - Move learners through important writing stages novice (emergent) to mature (self-extending).