Common Core State Standards for Grade 9: Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities is designed to help teachers address Common Core standards using effective, research-based instructional strategies in combination with ready-to-use activities. These strategies include identifying similarities and differences, writing summaries and taking notes, creating non-linguistic representations, and suggestions for homework and practice. There are a variety of suggested texts as well as identified text exemplars that can easily be used with the strategies and activities. Some additional key features of this book include: -Each instructional strategy is described in detail and includes lists of activities that would complement the strategy. -A list of standards and strands is given for each grade level. -Chapters are designed to focus on specific strands and contain lists of detailed activities for the standards within the strand. -Many activities address multiple standards within the activity. -Each activity contains focus standards and many contain suggested works. -Standards citations are listed at the end of each activity. -Many standards are addressed more than once throughout the strands. -Sample activity formats and questions can be found in the appendix.