The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) focus on the integration of literacy and content-area instruction; many of the CCSS guidelines are devoted to reading standards for informational texts, and with each ascending grade level, the standards become more rigorous. For example, with prompting and support, kindergarten students should be able to identify the main topic of an informational text and retell key details. By second grade, though, students should be able to use this skill while reading texts with multiple paragraphs.
Although this aspect of the standards may be commonly known, there is another aspect that is less well known. The CCSS also advocate for building background knowledge through extensive reading; the guidelines state that “within a grade level, there should be an adequate number of titles on a single…
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