This document provides further resources for learning more about the Common Core State Standards Initiative, partnerships that support Common Core assessments, measuring text complexity, and finding global documents and informational texts to support teaching with nonfiction. Links are included to the Common Core website and tools, as well as sites for primary sources, world newspapers, and measuring text complexity.

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FURTHER RESOURCES
More on the Common Core
Common Core State Standards Initiative http://www.corestandards.org/
Partnership for 21st Century Skills Common Core Toolkit
http://www.p21.org/tools-and-resources/publications/p21-common-core-
toolkit
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers
http://www.parcconline.org/ and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
http://www.k12.wa.us/smarter/
Measuring Text Complexity (Kansas DOE)
http://www.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=4605
Resources for Teaching with Global Documents & Informational Texts
Nonfiction Resource Guide (Primary Source)
http://resources.primarysource.org/nonfiction and other regional
guides: http://www.primarysource.org/resourceguides
Primary Source World
http://www.primarysource.org/primarysourceworld
World Digital Library
http://www.wdl.org/en/
Online Newspapers
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/