Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, 6-12 - Paperback

by Kathy Tuchman Glass (Author)

Your blueprint for skilled Common Core literacy alignment!

This all-in-one instructional resource is your best guide to building high quality, CCCS-aligned curriculum units across Grades 6-12 easily, manageably, and effectively. Master teacher Kathy Tuchman Glass provides thorough explanations and step-by-step exercises and templates centered around key CCCS ELA concepts to help you

• Challenge and engage students in all content areas using the CCCS ELA framework
• Use existing curriculum and materials to design new, CCCS-aligned units of study
• Identify CCCS ELA essential understandings for informational text, evidence-based writing, and other critical competencies
• Conduct resource-rich workshops and professional development

Author Biography

Kathy Tuchman Glass consults nationally with schools and districts, presents at conferences, and teaches seminars for university and county programs delivering customized professional development. A former master teacher, she has been in education for over twenty years and works with administrators and teachers in groups of varying sizes from one-on-one to entire school districts, from kindergarten through high school. She leads and collaborates with educators to assist with strategic planning to determine school or district objectives; design standards-based differentiated curriculum; craft essential understandings and guiding questions; use compelling instructional strategies that engage all learners; incorporate effective pre-, formative, and summative assessments into curriculum; use six-trait writing instruction and assessment; create unit or yearlong curriculum maps using state or Common Core Standards; and more.

In addition to Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, K-5, she has written Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9 (2009), Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (2007), and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics (2005), and has coauthored the Staff Development Guide for the Parellel Curriculum (2009) with Cindy Strickland. In addition, she served as a differentiation consultant for Pearson Learning′s social studies textbook series for K-5 ((c) 2013).

Originally from Indianapolis, Kathy resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her website is www.kathyglassconsulting.com.