CCSS Collaboration: How Librarians Can Collaborate with Teachers on Common Core

Authors

  • Cody Lawson
  • Faye LaDuke-Pelster

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.15.3.14

Abstract

Librarians play a crucial part in planning and implementing effective literacy instruction that serves the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for both ELA (English Language Arts) and social studies. The CCSS are a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and ELA, developed by a collaborative group of teachers, school chiefs, administrators, and other education experts.

Author Biography

Cody Lawson

Cody Lawson is an Assistant Professor and Faye LaDuke-Pelster is an Associate Professor, College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, at Black Hills State University in South Dakota.

References

P. J. Dunston and K. N. Headley, “Think-Alouds,” in Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Theory, and Practice, edited by B. Guzzetti, 655–56 (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO, 2002).

Don Holdaway, The Foundations of Literacy (Sydney: Ashton Scholastic, 1979).

American Association of School Librarians, Implementing the Common Core State Standards: The Role of the School Librarian (Chicago: American Association of School Librarians, 2013), 4.

Kathy Schrock, “Teaching Media Literacy in the Age of

the Internet: The ABCs of Website Evaluation,” Classroom Connect (December 1998/January 1999), www.schrockguide.net/critical-evaluation.html.

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Published

2017-09-28

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2017): Fall

Section

Features

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