North Carolina Core State and Essential Standards
Example: Kindergarten Reading Common Core Standards
Key ideas and details
Craft and structure
Integration of knowledge and ideas
Range of reading and level of text complexity
Information and Technology Essential Standards for Kindergarten
Sources of Information
Informational Text
Technology as a Tool
Research Process
Safety and Ethical Issues
Research Process which emphasizes the importance of identifying questions is the obvious partner of the key ideas and details standard. Using KWHL charts would be one way to encocurage students to form questions.
Informational text which encourages classification of fiction and non-fiction material and locating appropriate factural information dovetails with the craft and structure standard. Students can be introduced to online library catalog to assist them in differentiating library materials. Age-appropriate online sources of information like Kids InfoBits can be added to sources of factual information to be considered.
Technology as a tool and safety and ethical issues can both partner all of the reading standards, but are particularly suited to integration of knowledge and ideas. Students can be taught Internet safety, evaluating the information they find, and respect for the work of others when they use online resources to gather information. This would be a good time to introduce Searchasaurus and NCWiseOwl. With teacher assistance, they can use Powerpoint and Word documents and Web 2.0 tools like VoiceThread to organize and present what they have found.
As elementary library media specialists, we do this type of comparison constantly as we plan lessons for our students. For years, we used the American Library Association's Information Power as a guide. Using curriculum maps for content suggestions and basing many lessons on literature that supports the curricular areas, we then use Information standards to design our lessons. Middle and high school library media specialists are also familiar with all standards so that they can assist teachers with web sites and other materials to enhance their lessons.
This is great Dana. Thanks for the specific ideas on how to teach the particular strands. I was just thinking today that I was surprised that the ELA curriculum did not have anything about copyright or proper use and that is an area where the two must work together to make sure students get the whole picture.
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ReplyDeleteI loved your comparison of the Kindergarten Reading Common Core Standards to the Information and Technology Essential Standards. Your organization with highlighted key topics and color coding is great for easy reading and comprehension. I loved your reference to Information Power.
Dana,
ReplyDeleteWhat an excellent idea to list the Standards at the beginning of your post. Your connections are well made. Kudos on mentioning Information Power.
Dana,
ReplyDeleteLove your organization of your blog. Appreciate your connecting at the Kindergarten level to assist us in reaching the youngest students. Thanks for the insight.
Hi Dana,
ReplyDeleteThank you for directly linking the ITES standards with the Reading Common Core standards. Many of the areas do align with each other. I will need to learn how to highlight because it really helps when reading a blog.
Thank you! :)
I loved your comment, "...respect for the work of others when they use online resources to gather information." Teaching students proper etiquette when there is so much independence "in the cloud" might very well be our greatest challenge to successful implementation of the ITES standards.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your clear illustrations of how media specialists can work with classroom teachers to connect their learning objectives with the ITES. We can play an important role in collaborating with teachers to help them incorporate the ITES in their lessons.
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