ACTION CCSS

Reorganize Classrooms to Teach to the Common Core State Standards for Reading and Language Arts, PreK—12

This standards-based CCSS transition model accelerates teacher learning and student achievement while teaching to the Common Core State Standards for reading and language arts. A formative assessment solution that can be implemented quickly, ACTION CCSS provides:

• Student Assessment and Ongoing Formative Assessment
• Curriculum Based on the Common Core State Standards
• Text and Student Leveling
• Teacher Coaching
• Real-time Data Tracking

Put the Common Core State Standards in the hands of teachers, students, and parents today and every day!

Student Assessment and Instruction

Teachers Learn to Use the Common Core State Standards to:

• Determine the highest level of text complexity each student is able to handle
• Establish which standards each student is able to use independently
• Organize the learning environment to ensure all students are increasing both the level of text complexity they can handle and their ability to use each of the standards independently.

Daily Progress Monitoring

School Leaders Are Able to Track Rate of Reading Growth for Every Student, Classroom, and School

SchoolPace, the web-based student data-tracker, provides daily monitoring of “real-time” actionable data so teachers can adjust interventions as needed, student by student. Principals and district leaders can monitor the average rate of reading growth by classroom.

SchoolPace Daily Dashboard Provides Real-time Reports

• Every subgroup and student
• Every class and grade
• Every teacher and school
• Every day

Teachers Use an Assessment System that Focuses on Common Core State Standards Every Day

ACTION CCSS provides a framework to guide districts and teachers as they learn how to use the Common Core State Standards to organize for instruction and assessment. Teachers receive five days of hands-on experience and modeling.

Teachers Become Reading Experts

• Your teachers will be able to level students using CCSS and test student ability to apply acquired skills to “cold reads”
• Your teachers will be able to use the Common Core State Standards for direct instruction of reading.

Books Leveled to Common Core State Standards

A standards-based leveling system in which each book’s level of complexity is clearly marked enables students, parents, and teachers to gauge the level of text complexity a student is currently able to handle and work to increase it. This allows all stakeholders to share in the responsibility for students making adequate yearly progress.

Most national leveling systems are based on “characteristics of text,” such as average number of words per sentence and a frequency rank for the vocabulary used. Although these indicators are correlated with what a reader needs to know and be able to do, they are not as instructionally useful or reliable as standards-based leveling systems.

Virtually every book in print from 200+ publishers has been leveled based on what a reader needs to know and be able to do to decode and understand it.

• 12,000 BEST titles have been hand-selected and hand-leveled by a team of reading specialists.
• Collections are balanced for literacy/information, boy/girl interests, ethnic group representation, social studies, science, language arts and, when available, include the genres required by Common Core State Standards for that grade level.
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