2020 Updated Maine Language standards
The Language strand provides learning targets in developmental progressions for each grade K-5. The standards then move to multi-grade spans in grades 6-8 and 9-12.
Essential Topics in ELA
The language standards are first in the 2020 ELA document because they provide a starting point for selecting text, planning instruction, and supporting literacy growth with transferable skills.
Close Reading: How Does the Text Work?
This professional learning event focuses on the role of the language standards using a text-dependent technique featured in the Fisher, et. al. text Text-Dependent Questions: Pathways to Close and Critical Reading (K-5 and 6-12). Consider what to look for when selecting a text, how to prioritize passages for whole class study, and the role that language standards play in style, tone, and complexity.
Resources to support the language standards.
Professional Texts
Douglas, et al. Text-Dependent Questions, Grades 6-12: Pathways to Close and Critical Reading (Corwin Literacy). Corwin.
Douglas, et al. Text-Dependent Questions, Grades K-5: Pathways to Close and Critical Reading (Corwin Literacy). Corwin.
Lab, Purdue Writing. “OWL // Purdue Writing Lab.” Purdue Writing Lab, https://owl.purdue.edu/. Accessed 6 Oct. 2021.
Other
- Conventions and Knowledge of Language. From Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards, explains development and implementation of the language standards.
- Vocabulary. From Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards, explains that vocabulary development is more than just memorizing word lists.
- Bibliography. From Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards, provides the research and reference foundation that informed the development of the language standards.