The document discusses the Common Core Standards (CCS) for K-12 education in the United States. It provides information on the development of the CCS by education experts across states, and the goals of ensuring students graduate with skills to succeed in college and careers. It also describes how the CCS provide clear frameworks for teachers while allowing flexibility in how they are implemented locally. Finally, it discusses tools for evaluating instructional materials and assessments to determine alignment with the CCS.
2. COMMON CORE STANDARDS
Common Core Standards (CCS) are a clear set of high quality
academic standards in Mathematics and English Language
Arts/Literacy (ELA).
The standards is developed by teachers, parents, school
administrators, and experts from across the States and led by
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and National
Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA).
The standards was created to ensure that all students
graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge
necessary to succeed in their future life.
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3. COMMON CORE STANDARDS
The Common Core is informed by the highest, most effective
standards from states across the United States and countries
around the world. The standards define the knowledge and
skills students should gain throughout their K-12 education in
order to graduate high school prepared to succeed in entry-
level careers, introductory academic college courses, and
workforce training programs.
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4. COMMON CORE STANDARDS
CCS provide a clear and consistent framework for educators,
and also a way for teachers to measure student progress
throughout the school year and ensure that students are on
the pathway to success in their academic careers.
The actual implementation of the Common Core, including
how the standards are taught, the curriculum developed, and
the materials used to support teachers as they help students
reach the standards, is led entirely at the state and local
levels.
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5. COMMON CORE STANDARDS IN
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
The standards establish what students need to learn, but they
do not dictate how teachers should teach. Teachers will
devise their own lesson plans and curriculum, and tailor their
instruction to the individual needs of the students in their
classrooms.
The standards establish guidelines for English language arts
(ELA) as well as for literacy in history/social studies, science,
and technical subjects. Because students must learn to read,
write, speak, listen, and use language effectively in a variety
of content areas, the standards promote the literacy skills and
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8. Range of Text Types for K–5
Literature
Stories Dramas Poetry
Includes children’s adventure
stories, folktales, legends,
fables, fantasy, realistic fiction,
and myth
Includes staged dialogue and
brief familiar scenes
Includes nursery rhymes and
the subgenres of the narrative
poem, limerick, and free verse
poem
Informational Text
Literary Nonfiction and Historical, Scientific, and Technical Texts
Includes biographies and autobiographies; books about history, social
studies, science, and the arts; technical texts, including directions,
forms, and information displayed in graphs, charts, or maps; and digital
sources on a range of topics
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9. Literature:
Stories, Drama, Poetry
Informational Texts: Literary
Nonfiction and Historical, Scientific,
and Technical Texts
K A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog by Mercer
Mayer (1967)
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie
DePaola (1978)
My Five Senses by Aliki (1962)
Truck by Donald Crews (1980)
1 “Mix a Pancake” by Christina G. Rossetti
(1893)
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard
Atwater (1938)
A Tree Is a Plant by Clyde Robert Bulla,
illustrated by Stacey Schuett (1960)
Starfish by Edith Thacher Hurd (1962)
2-3 “Who Has Seen the Wind?” by Christina
G. Rossetti (1893)
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White (1952)
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder
by Walter Wick (1997)
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca
(2009)
4-5 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by
Lewis Carroll (1865)
“Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence
Thayer (1888)
Discovering Mars: The Amazing Story of the Red
Planet by Melvin Berger (1992)
Hurricanes: Earth’s Mightiest Storms by Patricia
Lauber (1996)
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10. Range of Text Types for 6-12
Literature
Stories Dramas Poetry
Includes the subgenres of
adventure stories, historical
fiction, mysteries, myths,
science fiction, realistic fiction,
allegories, parodies, satire, and
graphic novels
Includes one-act and multi-act
plays, both in written form and
on film
Includes the subgenres of
narrative poems, lyrical poems,
free verse poems, sonnets,
odes, ballads, and epics
Informational Text
Literary Nonfiction and Historical, Scientific, and Technical Texts
Includes the subgenres of exposition, argument, and functional text in
the form of personal essays, speeches, opinion pieces, essays about
art or literature, biographies, memoirs, journalism, and historical,
scientific, technical, or economic accounts (including digital sources)
written for a broad audience
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11. Literature:
Stories, Drama, Poetry
Informational Texts: Literary
Nonfiction and Historical, Scientific,
and Technical Texts
6-8 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
(1869)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark
Twain (1876)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by
John Steinbeck (1962)
9-10 The Tragedy of Macbeth by William
Shakespeare (1592)
“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1817)
“Farewell Address” by George Washington (1796)
“Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln (1863)
11-
CCR
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1925)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora
Neale Hurston (1937)
“Politics and the English Language” by George
Orwell (1946)
“Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry” by
Rudolfo Anaya (1995)
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12. The role of technology becomes more
fully integrated into teaching and
learning
CCS MEDIA DEVELOPMENT ?
Use technology and digital media
strategically and capably
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16. What media can be used?
Teaching K – 3 : BrainPop &
Curiosityville
For grades K-2 try Puppet
Pals, Comic Life, Wixie, Sock
Puppets or GarageBand.
For grades 3-5, add in iMovie
or Keynote.
If you teach grades 6-12, add
in Microsoft Office.
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17. EVALUATION
Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool (IMET)
This ELA/Literacy IMET is designed to help educators
determine whether or not instructional materials are aligned to
the Shifts and major features of the Common Core State
Standards (CCSS).
When to use the IME
1. Purchasing materials
2. Evaluating materials currently in use
3. Developing materials.
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20. EVALUATION
Assessment Evaluation Tool (AET)
ELA/literacy AET is designed to help educators determine
whether or not assessments and sets of assessments are
aligned to the shifts and major features of the Common Core
State Standards (CCSS).
When to use the AET
1. Purchasing assessments
2. Evaluating assessments in use
3. Developing assessments.
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