Curriculum Planning
Common Core in Action Series
Grade-level and subject-specific resources for Common Core-aligned lessons.
November 12, 2013 Updated June 24, 2015
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This collection of blog posts highlights lesson plans, ideas, and other useful resources to help you bring Common Core-aligned lessons into your classroom. We're actively building this repository of ideas every week, so make sure to bookmark this page. You can also follow or on Twitter for the latest updates.
Assessment
- The State of the Common Core
All Grades/Anchor Standards
- 11 Tips on Teaching Common Core Critical Vocabulary
- Common Core in Action: Writing for an Audience
- Common Core in Action: ELA
- Ideas for Implementing Literacy Common Core in the Non-ELA Classroom
- Use Arts Integration to Enhance Common Core
- Using QR Codes to Differentiate Instruction
- Common Core in Action: Reviving the Civic Mission of Schools
English Language Arts
Grades K-5
- ELA Common Core Resources for Elementary Educators
- Planning a Lesson, Telling a Story (Writing, K)
- Inquiry, Curiosity, Exploration, and the Common Core (Speaking and Listening, Grade 3)
- Modeling: Essential for Learning (Reading Informational Text, Grade 4)
- Common Core in Action: Examining 2 Texts in the Social Studies Classroom (Reading Informational Text, Grade 5)
Grades 6-8
- Common Core ELA Resources for Middle School Educators
- Common Core in Action: Narrative Writing
- Argumentative Writing Is a Key Focus in Common Core Standards
- New Standards for ELA: Common Core for Middle School ELA
- Inquiry, Curiosity, Exploration and the Common Core (Speaking and Listening, Grade 6)
- Planning a Lesson, Telling a Story (Writing, Grade 6)
- Modeling: Essential for Learning (Reading Informational Text, Grade 6)
- Common Core in Action: Examining 2 Texts in the Social Studies Classroom (Reading Informational Text, Grade 7)
- How to Design Projects Around Common Core Standards (Writing, Grade 8)
- Common Core in Action: Teaching Online Ethics (Writing, Grade 8)
Grades 9-12
- Science Teachers are Implementing Common Core for ELA Standards
- Teaching Students to Analyze Complex Nonverbal Texts
- Argumentative Writing Is a Key Focus in Common Core Standards
- Uncovering "Complex Text" in the Common Core
- The Gettysburg Address: Literary Nonfiction and the Common Core
- Modeling: Essential for Learning (Reading Informational Text, Grades 9-10)
- Inquiry, Curiosity, Exploration and the Common Core (Speaking and Listening, Grades 11-12)
- Planning a Lesson, Telling a Story (Writing, Grades 11-12)
- Common Core and Planning: Organizing a Unit of Instruction (Reading Informational Text, Grades 11-12)