The document provides guidance for evaluating instructional materials for California's Reading/Language Arts Framework. It outlines five types of instructional programs and details the purpose, guiding principles, and components of the Reading/Language Arts Basic Program and Reading/Language Arts/English Language Development Program for grades K-8. It also describes new evaluation criteria focusing on vocabulary, oral reading fluency, writing, and support for English learners and struggling readers.

1. Some details about Criteria for Evaluating Instructional Materials The NEW California Reading/Language Arts Framework (2007)

14. 21 st Century Skills- The New “Core” of the Core Curriculum

15. The core is now a blend

16. Teaching for understanding is at the heart of 21 st Century Skills

17. Grant Wiggins

18. THE BIG “ What makes a question BIG ?

19. THE BIG A question is big or weighty if it has significant depth and breadth….”

20. THE BIG “ Another aspect of ‘bigness’ is the time it consumes. Vital issues remain alive over days, months, and years, unlike simple or superficial inquiries.”

21. THE BIG “ We are not looking for an answer, really; we are inviting inquiry and reflection.” Grant Wiggins, Pearson Literature

25. Big Questions invite creativity, innovation, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving and decision making.

26. The emphasis on understanding must be core to all of our teaching tools

28. In their hands...

29. On their terms...

30. Digital instruction puts the world at our finger tips

32. Digital instruction can be fun!

34. Digital instruction can enhance understanding…

36. Digital instruction provides access for all…

38. When we use digital to teach we understand in a whole new way

39. BUT It’s not just enough to use digital to teach…

40. … we must also teach students to use digital

41. “ Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” Marc Prensky, 2001

42. You go to the internet second for information, rather than first… Signs of an Immigrant’s “Accent”

43. You read the manual for a computer program rather than assuming the program will teach you to use it…

44. You print emails (or have the secretary do it) before you read them…

45. You have never changed the original ring tone on your cell phone…

46. Prettygirl: Hi, hi!! KTNana3: Hi… Prettygirl: SUP KTNana3: Nada The Language of the Natives

47. Prettygirl: OMG!! My dad went out in the garage and a tarantula came out at him!!!!! KTNana3: NO WAY!!!

48. Prettygirl: OMG!! He screamed and freaked! He almost jumped to the roof!!!!!! KTNana3: LOL

49. Prettygirl: DIR… GTG… TTYL… C U!

50. There is an Access Gap

51. New Literacies Donald Leu

53. New Literacies provide a model for digital work and learning

54. New Literacies promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility

55. Creativity Collaboration Communication Innovation Decision Making Problem Solving Life and Career Skills Critical Thinking Information, Media & Tech Literacy Global, Financial & Civic Literacy 21 st Century Skills

56. Teaching for understanding is at the heart of 21 st Century Skills

57. 21 st Century Skills- The New “Core” of the Core Curriculum