The document provides information about the Common Core State Standards for New York grade 10 students. It discusses how the standards were created in 2010 to better prepare students for college and career. It also notes that over the past decade, New York schools have seen real gains in graduation rates as the standards for high school graduation have increased, though not all students graduate college and career ready. The document then outlines the six instructional shifts in English/Language Arts that are changing classrooms and provides details on the college and career readiness anchor standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language.

1. Anchors Away
A look at the Common Core State Learning Standards
Grade 10

2. Standards! What
Standards???
• The New York State learning standards were created in
2010 to help students to better prepare for college and
career:
• You can find the standards for grade 10 using this link:
• http://www.engageny.org/sites/default/files/resource/attac
hments/nysp12cclsela.pdf

3. But I have always taught
to standards, right?
• Over the past decade, New York State schools have made real
gains in graduation rates even as the Board of Regents raised
the standards for high school graduation.
• In classrooms across the State, talented teachers and
administrators are providing students with excellent learning
opportunities and have helped many students overcome
daunting challenges to graduate.
• Unfortunately, however, not all of our students graduate
college and career ready. Only about 75 percent of kids who
enter high school graduate four years later. That’s just not good
enough. (King)

4. Standards Video from
Commissioner King:
• http://www.engageny.org/sites/default/files/styles/mediu
m/public/media-vimeo/79229675.jpg?itok=iMVLj892

5. 6 Instructional Shifts in
ELA that are changing the
ELA classroom
•Six Shifts in ELA/Literacy
• Balancing Informational and Literary Text
• Building Knowledge in the Disciplines
• Staircase of Complexity
• Text-Based Answers
• Writing From Sources
• Academic Vocabulary

6. College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standard for Reading
• Through the reading of literature and nonfiction texts
students will gain cultural knowledge, references, and
images; they will also be able to sustain the ability to
evaluate arguments while addressing the skills needed to
work through complex texts.

7. College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standard for Writing
• Overall students exposure to the various forms of writing
will increase their ability to understand formal structure,
task, and purpose.
• Students will be introduced to a variety of styles of
writing along with strategies to elevate sophistication.
• The revision process will also allow for the ability to look
at one’s work and a peer’s with a critical eye.

8. College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standard for Speaking
and Listening
• Students will be given opportunities to participate in rich
conversations as a whole class as well as a small group.
• Through discussion students will synthesize and analyze a
multitude of ideas to support and defend their arguments using
appropriate evidence.
• They will be able to attentively listen to others as they speak
and transform their own ideas based on the merits of the
conversation .

9. College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standard for Language
• Ultimately students will be able to have a strong
understanding of all the standard conventions of the
English language and choose words based on myriad of
qualifications.
• This sophistication will allow them to access many types
of information and apply skills and strategies for better
understanding.