Core Ready Lesson Sets for Grades 3-5: A Staircase to Standards Success for English Language Arts, The Shape of Story: Yesterday and Today

The Shape of Story-Yesterday and Today is a book for teachers, administrative leaders, literacy coaches, ELL specialists, special educators, media specialists, reading teachers, content area teachers, professors and students of education. In it they are provided with all the lessons to turn the Common Core State Standards into meaningful instruction and learning in narrative literacy-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. Through these lesson sets, readers gain an understanding of the unique structure, craft, and terminology associated with each genre with an emphasis on classic and contemporary literature as outlined in the Common Core State Standards.