Common+Core

**READING Literature Standards and Informational Standards for each grade level. **
[|K Common Core Standards] [|1st grade Common Core Standards] Unpacking documents for NC. You do not need a password to use these documents. [|2nd grade Common Core standards] [|3rd grade Common Core Standards] [|4th grade Common Core Standards] [|5th grade Common Core Standards] [|6th-12th Unpacking Documents] Click on "Standards Progression" tab. [|9th-10th Grades] Literature [|11th-12th Grades] Literature [|Quick Reference] for grades K-8 in every subject [|**IRA Guidelines**]Their interpretation of Common Core

**__ NORTH CAROLINA RESOURCES __**
[|LIVEBINDERS]Self study for ELA Common Core [|LIVEBINDERS RESOURCES]Common Core ELA NC [|Common Core ISS] Videos, crosswalks, documents, assessments, resources. [|New Tools and Resources] from CCSSO added 2/14/13 <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">New HOME BASE [|Website] and Email Address: Home_Base_Ready@dpi.nc.gov <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Vision of NC Schools] NC State Board of Education outlines new goals. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|**K-12 NC SCOS**]- Most updated curriculum based on Common Core <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Archived RttT]Weekly DPI Updates <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">NC [|ELA Scoop] The Informational Text Edition NCDPI

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Taxonomies
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Marzano's New Taxonomy]<span class="gmw_"> The article explains The New Taxonomy and how it differs from Bloom's Taxonomy. The Common Core Curriculum and NC Standard Course of Study <span class="gm_ gm_02bdd73f-3204-1fb5-3d08-08365c5afe6c gm-spell">is based on Marzano's New Taxonomy and Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. PDF format. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|The New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives] by Robert Marzano. Click "To Look Inside" when you get to the Amazon site. Click on "first pages" and you can read chapter one online, free! <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|3D Bloom's Taxonomy] model <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Seinfeld] episodes used to dramatize the levels of Blooms. Entertaining!

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">NATIONAL RESOURCES
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">FREE [|INFORMATIONAL TEXT LESSON PLANS]<span class="gmw_"><span class="gm_ gm_5d8230b8-bb3a-0c9f-fcdd-87dfcadda6bd gm-spell">: Common Core Teaching and Learning Strategies: Informational Standards K-5, draft from Illinois. Just the graphic organizers in the back are worth the peek. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">FREE [|READING LITERATURE LESSON PLANS]Common Core Teaching and Learning Strategies: Literature Standards K-5, draft from Illinois. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Common Core] Everything you want to know about Common Core that is known. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Glossary] of Terms <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|APPENDIX A] ELA & Literacy in History and Social Studies - Text Complexity <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION FOR APPENDIX A:] New Research on Text Complexity <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|APPENDIX B] Text exemplars and performance tasks. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|APPENDIX C]Samples of student writing <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|mCLASS][|/Amplify] - a ton of resources all in one place!

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">WEBSITES
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|MY PINTEREST COMMON CORE BOARD] <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Kentucky ELA UNITS] - look good - posted 11.22.13 <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|ASCD][|Educore] FREE presentations and handouts to address Common Core issues (added 1/26/13) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Plan the Year]with ASCD Resources. Added 6/17/13. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Learn NC] is realigning 1600 lessons to address Common Core standards. Check here for Common Core/Essential Standards. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Scoop It!] Common Core Practitioner, dedicated to learning CCSS. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Shanahan on Literacy] Newly discovered blog by Timothy Shanahan with MANY Common Core Resources (added 1/26/13) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|ThinkInfinity] Common Core Modules

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">ARTICLES, VIDEOS, PODCASTS
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Common Core Myths] - Chris Lehman. Important reading. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Common Core Confusion] by David Coleman (1/24/12) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|I Choose C Interview]: Why we need Common Core (on You Tube) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Vocabulary, Comprehension, and the Common Core:] A Conversation with Doug Fisher Podcast Added 2/24/13 <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Close Reading in First Grade? Probably Not] Caution to be exercised, says Timothy Shanahan Added 7/25/13 <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Common Core: [|10 Colossal Errors] Added 1/7/14.

**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">TEXT COMPLEXITY/CLOSE READING **
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Guide] to Creating Text Dependent Questions for Close Reading (Added 1/26/13) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Understanding the Core: Text Complexity] by Christina Hank, cited on NC LiveBinder <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Text Complexity Resources] Kansas - many, many helpful PPTs and Videos <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Timothy Shanahan's PPT presentation] on Text Complexity and Common Core Testing (added 3/3/13) Timothy Shanahan's blog on [|Close Reading] Added 5/20/14. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|David Coleman']s take on complex texts - Videotaped. Added 4/16/13. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Measure of Text Difficulty] PDF. Testing their predictive value for grade levels. Jessica Nelson, Charles Perfetti, David Liben, and Meredith Liben <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Achieve the Core] - Passages for practicing __close reading__. Lesson plans provided. Create a FREE membership. Added 12/2/13. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Newsela]<span class="gmw_"> - website with FREE reading passages on the same topic with different <span class="gm_ gm_2bd1e7fb-ad4e-8daa-8a97-0ebd2d2800e8 gm-spell">lexiles. Added 12/2/13. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|ELEMENTARY MATTERS] Amazon links to 11/12 informational texts recommended for grades 2-3. Exemplar texts. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|CLOSE READING] Teachers ask questions they deem necessary, even right-there questions. Read FABULOUS explanation: Shanahan on Literacy. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Close Reading]<span class="gmw_"> VIDEO. My favorite is the second lesson. Could definitely be used in PD with teachers so they can analyze the components of __close reading__. Added 1/2/14. 6th grade video at 27:45 (Inferences). 7th grade ELA video at 33:40 (sensory imaging from Beowolf and how she uses kids' knowledge to pave the way into the reading*). HS ELA video at 39:36 (determining 2 sides of a debate and evidence each author uses to support her side). Added 1/2/14. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">5th Grade [|Close Reading Lesson] - awesome, energetic teacher uses learning targets and formative assessment while she uses the close reading strategy. Added 1/2/14.

//Assessment -See Assessment & Grading page on this site.// //Links on the Common Core page were working as of 4/2/13//