Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at Work®, Grades 9-12. Nancy Frey

(4) What may be challenging for teachers? (Visit go.solution-tree.com/commoncore for an online-only reproducible you can use to conduct analyses of other standards with your collaborative team.) We will share observations of our own to seed your discussions.

      Key Ideas and Details in Literature

      Table 2.4 (page 38) lists the grades 9–12 standards for this domain. The standards contain many expected elements, as well as some more challenging demands that have implications for instruction. Anchor standard one (R.CCR.1) emphasizes the importance of citing substantial evidence directly from the text in order to support explicit and inferential levels of meaning. An important skill in rhetorical writing and speaking is the ability to link textual evidence to claims, and this standard requires students to link multiple examples to their claim. Anchor standard two (R.CCR.2) challenges students to look more broadly across the text to locate central themes, connect them to details, and to further summarize the text. These are expanded in anchor standard three (R.CCR.3), in which students in ninth and tenth grades examine complex characters for stated and unstated motivations. In eleventh and twelfth grades, students also consider the author’s choices in the purposeful development of the story—in other words, the author’s craft and artistry.

Table 2.4: Literature Standards for Domain Key Ideas and Details, Grades 9–12