Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, Grades 6-12

15 Must-Have Skills Every Student Needs to Achieve

Jim Burke, Barry Gilmore

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781483390291
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

Analyze, argue, compare/contrast, describe, determine, develop, evaluate, explain, imagine, integrate, interpret, organize, summarize, support, and transform...

Can a mere fifteen words turn today's youth into the innovative, ambitious thinkers we need? Yes, contend Jim Burke and Barry Gilmore, coauthors of Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, because these are the moves that make the mind work and students must learn if they're to achieve academically. It's that simple.

Or is it? To arrive at these fifteen critical reading, writing, and thinking processes, Jim and Barry combed through the standards, research, and secondary curriculum—and that's for starters. Then, for each of these powerhouse processes, they developed a lesson structure, assignments, and activities so you can teach with potency, right away, and immediately cultivate in students discipline-specific habits of mind.

Here's the best part yet: Jim and Barry distill each intellectual process into a potent concision that nevertheless spans subject areas:

• Before, during, and after sections offer essential questions, lesson ideas, and activities to assist you in instruction.
• Two sample student pieces illustrate not only what to look for but the process for getting there.
• Culminating tasks include producing an analytic essay, visual text, argument, narrative and informational writing, poetry, descriptive science writing, and explanatory writing in math.
• Every chapter has a correlation chart to Webb's Depth of Knowledge to deepen understanding and a reproducible rubric to aid in assessment.

At the end of the day, what we want is for our students to know how to think at high levels in any discipline in school or any arena in life. In Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, Jim and Barry translate these processes into remarkable instructional protocols. Use the book and you'll know for yourself what a revolution they've created.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• CONTENTS with list of student samples
• Publisher Note
• Introduction The Language of Learning Words That Make the Mind Work
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Analyze break something down methodically into its parts
• 2 Argue provide reasons or evidence to support or oppose
• 3 Compare/Contrast identify similarities or differences between items
• 4 Describe report what one observes or does
• 5 Determine make a decision or arrive at a conclusion after considering all possible options, perspectives, or results
• 6 Develop improve the quality or substance of
• 7 Evaluate establish value, amount, importance, or effectiveness
• 8 Explain provide reasons for what happened or one’s actions
• 9 Imagine create a picture in one’s mind; speculate or predict
• 10 Integrate make whole by combining the different parts into one
• 11 Interpret draw from a text or data set some meaning or significance
• 12 Organize arrange or put in order
• 13 Summarize retell the essential details of what happened
• 14 Support offer evidence or data to illustrate your point
• 15 Transform change in form, function, or nature to reveal or emphasize
• Appendix 1 The Other Words
• Appendix II Academic Writing Moves
• Appendix III Working With the Words Across Disciplines
• Appendix IV Academic Moves: Etymology
• Appendix V Teaching by Design Using Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Model Created by Jim Burke
• Appendix VI Standards Correlation Chart (Texas, Florida, Indiana, and Virginia) Compiled by Judi Reimer
• Appendix VII Anchor Charts
• Appendix VIII Graphic Organizers
• Glossary
• Index
• Publisher Note