Designed for teachers, school leaders, and professional learning communities looking to navigate the gap between their current literacy practices and the ideals of the U.S. Common Core standards, Pathways to the Common Core by Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman can help readers:
- Understand what the standards say, suggest, and what they don’t say
- Recognize the guiding principles that underpin the reading and writing standards
- Identify how the Common Core’s infrastructure supports a spiraling K–12 literacy curriculum
- Scrutinize the context in which the standards were written and are being unrolled
