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The Critical Words Your Students Must Know for the Common Core State Standards! by Marilee Sprenger
The Critical Words Your Students Must Know for the Common Core State Standards!
by Marilee Sprenger
http://www.marileesprenger.com/the-critical-words.html
Researchers estimate 85% of achievement test scores are based on the vocabulary of the standards. Students from poverty, ELL students, and other at-risk students are particularly in need of learning these words in ways that meet their specific learning needs.
Below are the high frequency words of the CCSS and words present in the exemplars provided in Appendix B.
Critical Verbs
Analyze
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Critical Nouns
Alliteration
Analogy
Argument
Central Idea
Conclusions
Connections
Connotative Language
Details
Evidence
Figurative Language Illustrations
Interaction
Metaphor
Mood
Point of view
Rhetoric
Simile
Stanza
Structures
Theme
Tone
Comment
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Comment by Jan McCoy on December 17, 2013 at 1:27pm
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Could we perhaps change this to read "the critical concepts children need as they move into adulthood?" If this doesn't describe the items on this list then they are not critical.
We too often think of words as though they are independent of the concepts they describe rather than thinking of concepts as thoughts and ideas that need a word to describe them. If we narrow the common core standards to a vocabularly lesson, students who are prefectly successful on assessments will fail in life.
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