Core Ready Lesson Sets for Grades 3-5: A Staircase to Standards Success for English Language Arts, The Power to Persuade: Opinion and Argument

The Power to Persuade: Opinion and Argument is a book for teachers, administrative leaders, literacy coaches, ELL specialists, special educators, media specialists, reading teachers, content area teachers, and professors and graduate students. In it they get a one-stop resource for turning the Common Core State Standards into meaningful instruction and learning-a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide on how to implement the Common Core State Standards and how to ensure that all students are core ready. Included are rich, dynamic lesson sets, each with complete step by step reading and writing lessons, as well as highlights for speaking, listening, and language use. The focus is on the recognition and development of opinion and argument through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.