Friday, August 9, 2013

Common Core Literacy Standards for Science and Technical Subjects, Summarized

Through a colleague on Twitter, I came across this great post from Mark Clements about how he had taken the Social Science CCSS Literacy standards, summarized them, and re-grouped them, in an attempt to make them easier to digest for teachers who may not be very familiar with Common Core.  Since I will be working with Science teachers later this month, to introduce the CCSS Literacy standards for Science and Technical Subjects, I was inspired to follow his example with the Science standards.  Here's what I came up with.

First, the Reading standards, summarized:


Next, the Writing standards, similarly shortened:


From these restatements, I was able to group the standards into four categories:


And here's how I grouped the standards into those categories:


As with Mark Clements' Social Science summary, I present this in the spirit of beginning discussion; I'm sure someone else will be able to summarize and organize these better than I did.  If you'd like to make edits, here is a link to a Word document with these tables.