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

Articulate

Cite

Compare

Comprehend

Contrast

Delineate

Demonstrate

Describe

Determine

Develop

Distinguish

Draw

Evaluate

Explain

Identify

Infer

Integrate

Interpret

Locate

Organize

Paraphrase

Refer

Retell

Suggest

Support

Summarize

Synthesize

Trace

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 

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Comment by Jan McCoy on December 17, 2013 at 1:27pm

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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