Digital Delights Presents Digital Delights Presents Digital Delights Presents Apps and More That are Good for the CORE!Apps and More That are Good for the CORE!

Melissa Webb, Ed.S. & Tomeka Barron, Ed.S.Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools

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The CORE Shifts

Shift 1: Balancing Informational and Literary Text

Shift 2: Building Knowledge in the Disciplines

Shift 3: Staircase of Complexity

Shift 4: Text-based Answers

Shift 5: Writing from Sources

Shift 6: Academic Vocabulary

The CORE Shifts

Shift 1: Balancing Informational and Literary Text - Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

Shift 4: Text-based Answers - Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text

Shift 6: Academic Vocabulary - Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

The CORE Shifts

The Apps

#5: Analyze the structure of texts, including how

specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger

portions of the text relate to each other and the whole.

#6: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

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#4: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or

tone.

#7: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as

well as in words.

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#2: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze

their development; summarize the key supporting details and

ideas.

#3: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the

course of a text.

Web-Based Resources

www.makebeliefscomix.com

Demonstrate text development, point of view, and central ideas through the use of comic strip storytelling.

www.edu.glogster.comAnalyze figurative meaning by compiling visual images to demonstrate conceptual understanding. Import videos and pictures to create posters, diagrams, illustrations,

advertisements, postcards, and much more.

www.kerpoof.com

Create educational and entertaining animated videos that analyze how

characters, events, and ideas develop throughout a text.

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Digital Delights Presents Digital Delights Presents Digital Delights Presents Apps and More That are Good for the CORE!Apps and More That are Good for the CORE!

Feel Free to email us!melissa.webb@sccpss.com tomeka.barron@sccpss.com