COMMON CORE
Maria C. Galvan Cruz
Cal Poly Pomona
Professor McKinney
Common Core History
Common Core has been in work since at least 2008. Former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, who was the 2006-07 chair of the National Governors Association and now leads the University of California system is who gave initiation to this project. Mrs. Napolitano initiative had a strong focus on improving math and science education, as well as the workforce. Although many do not agree with the common core and opposed to it because it may seem to show that is a way of “states’ rights to control local education”, this project to those who have been working on it is defined as “nothing short of an exhaustive and collaborative years-long effort at raising …show more content…
They also need to recount stores, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. They need to describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. Third grades should be able to determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal form nonliteral language. They also need to be able to distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters. They also need to compare and contrast the themes, setting and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters. Overall, they their range of reading level of text complexity by the end of the year they should read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and
Maria C. Galvan Cruz
Cal Poly Pomona
Professor McKinney
Common Core History
Common Core has been in work since at least 2008. Former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, who was the 2006-07 chair of the National Governors Association and now leads the University of California system is who gave initiation to this project. Mrs. Napolitano initiative had a strong focus on improving math and science education, as well as the workforce. Although many do not agree with the common core and opposed to it because it may seem to show that is a way of “states’ rights to control local education”, this project to those who have been working on it is defined as “nothing short of an exhaustive and collaborative years-long effort at raising …show more content…
They also need to recount stores, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. They need to describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. Third grades should be able to determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal form nonliteral language. They also need to be able to distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters. They also need to compare and contrast the themes, setting and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters. Overall, they their range of reading level of text complexity by the end of the year they should read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and