Common Core State Standards for Grade 9

Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities

Common Core State Standards for Grade 9: Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities is designed to help teachers address Common Core standards using effective, research-based instructional strategies in combination with ready-to-use activities. These strategies include identifying similarities and differences, writing summaries and taking notes, creating non-linguistic representations, and suggestions for homework and practice. There are a variety of suggested texts as well as identified text exemplars that can easily be used with the strategies and activities. Some additional key features of this book include:

• Each instructional strategy is described in detail and includes lists of activities that would complement the strategy.
• A list of standards and strands is given for each grade level.
• Chapters are designed to focus on specific strands and contain lists of detailed activities for the standards within the strand.
• Many activities address multiple standards within the activity.
• Each activity contains focus standards and many contain suggested works.
• Standards citations are listed at the end of each activity.
• Many standards are addressed more than once throughout the strands.
• Sample activity formats and questions can be found in the appendix.