The document provides guidance for an activity to help participants build understanding of the Common Core Reading Anchor Standards. The activity involves participants reading and analyzing a story called "What Can a Small Bird Be?" to explore how it demonstrates different reading clusters, including key ideas and details, craft and structure, and integration of knowledge and ideas. Participants are instructed to consider questions for each cluster in pairs or groups.

1. Pathways to the
Common Core
Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, Christopher Lehman
Participants will engage in an activity
to build their understanding of the
CCR Anchor Standards for Reading
using a text.

2. Understanding the CCR Anchor Standards for Reading
with
What Can a Small Bird Be?
by the Character Education Teen Residency Project Participants

3. Strands
Clusters
Standards

4. Key Ideas and Details Cluster
• What the text
says
• Students read
for meaning
across a story

5. Key Ideas and Details Cluster
1. Review R.CCR.1 in the Participant
Notes.
2. As you reread about courage, look
for key details in the text.
3. Recount what happens in the text
with your partner.

6. Key Ideas and Details Cluster
1. Review R.CCR.2 and R.CCR.3 in your
Participant Notes.
2. What is this story beginning to be about?

7. Craft and Structure Cluster
• How the text says it
• Craft, structure, and
meaning are
interconnected

8. Craft and Structure Cluster
1. Review R.CCR.4-6 in your Participant Notes.
2. Questions to consider with a partner:
• Which words contribute to the story’s
meaning and tone?
• How do portions of this text relate to each
other and the whole?
• How does point of view shape the content
and style?

9. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Cluster
• Students develop
tools to think across
text sets

10. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Cluster
1. Review R.CCR.7 and 9
2. What texts (including diverse media and
formats) could you consider alongside
What Can a Small Bird Be?, to deepen
your understanding and thinking?

11. Using Stixy:
Create a sticky note about a
particular standard or cluster
that makes new sense to you.
I used to think _______, but
now I know __________.