<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <pre style="word-wrap:break-word; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma; color:black"> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: BLAST OFF TIPS OF THE WEEK From: Just for Teachers <JustforTeachers@FLDOE.ORG> To: JUSTFORTEACHERS-L@LSERV.FLDOE.ORG CC: </pre> <div> <div class="WordSection1"> The Florida Department of Education is excited to share weekly tips about the Common Core State Standards. Reading Elementary School Kindergarten students should draw, dictate, and write to share their opinions about a book or a topic they are writing about. Students build the background knowledge necessary to respond through ongoing modeled reading by the teacher. Middle School Students in grades 6-8 should write arguments that focus on discipline-specific content in content-area classes such as social studies or science. Students should introduce their position about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish their position from the opposition, and organize evidence logically in their responses. Students build background knowledge through close and wide reading of complex texts in order to respond with logical positions. High School Students in grades 9-10 should write arguments focused on discipline-specific content in content-area classes such as social studies or science. Students should introduce precise and specific positions and compare them with opposing positions, and organize their writing so it reflects clear relationships among the position, counterclaims, reasons, and evidence presented. Students build the background knowledge necessary to respond with precise and specific position through close and wide reading of complex texts and are allowed extended time to sufficiently organize their writing to reflect these clear relationships. Students with Disabilities Provide students with a rubric for writing assignments to ensure that they have an understanding of the expectations and requirements. Providing a visual model or example of expected products is also a very good strategy to assist in helping them plan out their thoughts and ideas before beginning their writing assignments. Mathematics Elementary School Second grade students should be able to draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Middle School Sixth grade students should be able to display numerical data in plots on a number line, including dot plots, histograms, and box plots. High School High School students should be able to summarize categorical data for two categories in two-way frequency tables and represent data on two quantitative variables on a scatter plot, and describe how the variables are related. Students with Disabilities When teaching abstract concepts like measurement, data and graphing use hands-on items like manipulatives or objects to help students visualize quantities and grouping of like items. </div> </div> </body> </html>