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Teacher Natalie O'Neil shares the technology she uses to teach lessons that adhere to the ELA standards and prepare her students for PARCC assessments in the spring.

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Teacher Natalie O'Neil shares the technology she uses to teach lessons that adhere to the ELA standards and prepare her students for PARCC assessments in the spring.

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Learn how to make @Citelighter Your Go-Tool for Teaching Writing by @TeachNV

Learn how to make @Citelighter Your Go-Tool for Teaching Writing by @TeachNV

Most teachers can empathize with the difficulty of teaching writing. You’ve likely experienced that hair-pulling moment after reading students’ unpolished, disorganized essays that lack support and analysis. And if you’re anything like me, you’ve  probably asked yourself, “What can I do to help my students become better writers?” For years, I searched for some way to beat the writing blues. I…

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Citelighter and Common Core for Literacy Standards

  The CCSS (Common Core State Standards) are all about raising expectations and preparing students for success in the future. There are 6 major instructional shifts with the Common Core for Literacy (as seen below). These shifts have entered classrooms quickly and teachers are constantly looking for tools to support them in making these shifts organically.

The 6 major instructional shifts:

Balancing informational and literary text.

Building knowledge in the disciplines.

Staircase of complexity.

Text-based answers.

Writing from sources.

Academic vocabulary.

Citelighter's commenting function bears a natural connection to these shifts. Researching and capturing the most salient facts and quotes from high end texts is a great way to ensure that students are building knowledge in the disciplines. As for the staircase of complexity, Citelighter's commenting function encourages students to "Stop and Think" or "Stop and Jot" at a particular portion of a text, which can make them successful at pulling apart and comprehending texts with increasing lexile levels. Writing from sources refers to collecting evidence on a particular topic - but great teachers know that it's not just about "finding evidence," it's about "finding meaningful and relevant evidence." How can we make sure the evidence students collect is meaningful and relevant? We can have them add comments explaining their reasoning for choosing a specific piece of evidence!