http://www.middleweb.com/6330/research-adventure-the-common-core/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=research-adventure-the-common-core All About the Middle Grades Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:19:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.middleweb.com/6330/research-adventure-the-common-core/#comment-1792 Review roundup - The Stenhouse Blog Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:08:52 +0000 http://www.middleweb.com/?p=6330#comment-1792 [...] Kevin Hodgson, a sixth grade teacher in Southampton, Massachusetts, has been rethinking the way he approaches research projects with his students since his state adopted the Common Core. “The new standards not only increase the expectations of research-based reading and writing across the content areas, they also expect these skills to be taught in younger grades and with increasingly more complexity as the students get older,” Kevin explains. And if the expression “research project” elicits groans from you and your students, Kevin thinks the adventure essay and the strategies in Writing to Explore might be the cure. Read the full review here. [...]

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