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From http://hechingerreport.org/for-teachers-of-english-learners-common-core-means-double-the-work/

For teachers of English learners, Common Core means double the work
by Margaret Ramirez
June 16, 2015

On a recent chilly spring morning at John F. Kennedy Magnet School, fourth-grade bilingual teacher Kristin Pascuzzi distributed a series of “mystery” photos to her excited students and asked them to discover what they had in common. They gabbed and scratched their heads, studying the images that included a doorknob, a tiger’s razor-sharp incisor, a seesaw and a flagpole.

…In revamping her lessons to teach the new Common Core standards, Pascuzzi has spent much of the academic year embedding more science and informational texts into her English language arts (ELA) and literacy instruction. As a bilingual teacher, she juggles the simultaneous tasks of helping her English language learners speak, read and write a new language.

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