1st Edition

Self-Regulation and the Common Core Application to ELA Standards

310 Pages
by Eye On Education

310 Pages
by Eye On Education

310 Pages
by Eye On Education

The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts created new challenges for teachers and pre-service instructors. Self-regulated learning, using one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to reach goals, can help students become independent, self-directed learners. This book provides educators the support they need to apply the principles of self-regulated learning in their teaching for... Read more
Foreword. Preface. Part I: Linking the Common Core and Self-Regulation. Chapter 1: Spirals and Crosswalks. Chapter 2: Theory Based Instruction: Self-Regulation of Learning. Chapter 3: Self-Regulation in a Classroom Context. Part II: Elementary School. Chapter 4: The Road to Independence Begins With Strategic Help Seeking (Kindergarteners and First Graders). Chapter 5: Writing From Informational Text: Strategies for Goal Setting, Planning, & Self-Monitoring (Grades 2 and 3). Chapter 6: Building Academic Language: Inferring Meaning from Context and Morpheme Clues (Grades 4 and 5). Part III: Middle School. Chapter 7: The Self-Regulated Writer Reads Like a Writer (Grades 6, 7, and 8). Part IV: High School. Chapter 8: A Dimensional Crosswalk: From the Common Core to Self-Regulation. Chapter 9: A Strategic Approach to Research Projects (Grades 9 and 10). Chapter 10: Beginning a Research Paper: Synthesizing Resources (Grades 11 and 12).

Biography

Dr. Marie C. White is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Chair of Childhood and Adolescent Education at Nyack NYC. Dr. Maria K. DiBenedetto is a high school science teacher in North Carolina. Both authors have extensive experience in teacher education and are experts in self-regulated learning.