Week 2 Assignment 2

The Common Core is a set of learning standards many schools adopted in order to ensure that they appropriately prepare their students for the future. Before the development of Common Core, school districts would each set their own expectations they believed are necessary to help students succeed in the real world. These expectations were usually broad – hard to reach and varied considerably from state to state. This caused achieving students to be unprepared for schools, colleges and jobs out for their state. Education experts worked hard to tackle this problem and established one set of standards, known as the Common Core. With the establishment of the Common Core State Standards we now have guidelines which focus on core learning skill students must acquire in order to succeed in any given school, college and job.

The Common Core for English Language Arts & Literacy is divided into 4 main content categories: reading, writing, speaking and listening and language, which are each further dividing into step by step learning goals. Each of these standards add up in preparing students with the necessary skills to succeed in the future. The reading standards cover literature and informational texts and the writing standards prepare students to convey complex information clearly. Communicating properly with others, both formally and in every day discussions, is a part of the speaking and listening standards and communicating and writing grammatically correct is included in the language standards. Each of the skills outlined in the Common Core combined, ensure that students grow up to be successful individuals who will positively contribute to society.