Be Core Ready : Powerful, Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards. This item is unavailable.Be Core Ready : Powerful, Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards

KEY BENEFIT: Provides a transformational solution for how all students can achieve and exceed Common Core Standards through the new Core Ready program, a series of lesson sets organized around the groundbreaking 4 Doors to Core Ready. All Core Ready students will ascend the staircase of literacy learning, thanks to the lessons and action steps provided by Pam Allyn’s Core Ready approach. This book sets the stage for the author’s Core Ready program, but can also stand alone as a seminal guide to what to teach and how to teach it in the era of core literacies. The following books in the series, all chock full of Core Ready integrated literacy lessons, include The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique, The Shape of Story: Yesterday and Today, The Road to Knowledge: Information and Research, and The Power to Persuade: Opinion and Argument.

KEY TOPICS: Common Core Standards, close reading, text complexity, differentiation for ELL and special needs students, persuasive writing, classic and contemporary literacy analysis, early literacy skill building, meaningful assessment, and the role of new media in literacy learning

MARKET: Teachers, administrative leaders, literacy coaches, ELL specialists, special educators, media specialists, reading teachers, content area teachers, professors, students of education, plus parents and caregivers.

Pam Allyn is an authority in the field of literacy education and the world’s expert in home and school literacy connections. As a renowned motivational speaker, expert consultant, author, teacher, and humanitarian advocating for children, she is transforming the way we think about literacy as a tool for communication and knowledge building.

Pam currently serves as the executive director of LitLife, a national literacy development organization providing research-based professional development for K-12 educators. She founded and leads LitWorld, a groundbreaking global literacy initiative which reaches children across the United States and in over 60 countries. Her methods for helping all students achieve success as literacy learners, including the most diverse learners, has brought her acclaim both in the United States and internationally. 

Pam is the author of 11 books for educators and parents including the award-winning What To Read When: The Books and Stories To Read With Your Child-And All The Best Times To Read Them (Penguin Avery), Pam Allyn's Best Books for Boys (Scholastic), and Your Child’s Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age (Penguin Avery). Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Oprah Radio, the Huffington Post, The New York Times and across the blogosphere.