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Kid Friendly Common Core Standards K-5 is from the California Dept. of Education and have PDF copies in both English and Spanish.

Common Core EdCanvas by Jessica Brooks has links to the latest implementation updates in TN including web sites, presentations, videos, and documents.

Digital Public Library

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used, through its three main elements:

1. A portal that delivers students, teachers, scholars, and the public to incredible resources, wherever they may be in America. Far more than a search engine, the portal provides innovative ways to search and scan through the united collection of millions of items, including by timeline, map, format, and topic.

2. A platform that enables new and transformative uses of our digitized cultural heritage. With an application programming interface (API) and maximally open data, the DPLA can be used by software developers, researchers, and others to create novel environments for learning, tools for discovery, and engaging apps.

3. An advocate for a strong public option in the twenty-first century. For most of American history, the ability to access materials for free through public libraries has been a central part of our culture, producing generations of avid readers and a knowledgeable, engaged citizenry. The DPLA will work, along with like-minded organizations and individuals, to ensure that this critical, open intellectual landscape remains vibrant and broad in the face of increasingly restrictive digital options. The DPLA will seek to multiply openly accessible materials to strengthen the public option that libraries represent in their communities.

  Common Core Open Resources for Math and Science   These free resources help implement the CCSS in your state and provide you with specific information to prepare teachers to equip students with the tools they’ll need to be successful on the PARCC assessments.

ReadWorks.Org  provides:

• Over 1,000 non-fiction reading passages with associated text-dependent question sets, leveled using the Lexile framework (http://www.readworks.org/books/passages)

• 100’s of easy to use lesson plans that help you explicitly teach comprehension to K-6 students (http://www.readworks.org/lessons/grades)

• All reading passages, question sets, and lesson plans are research-based and aligned with the Common Core State Standards

• Student Handouts, Graphic Organizers and Teacher Materials that can be easily downloaded and printed for your use

Visit ReadWorks often for new non-fiction reading passages, question sets, and lessons. We’re always adding more resources to help make your planning easier.

Thinking Common Core is a Scoop It site created by Catherine Schmidt with excellent articles and links to help with Common Core implementation.

Opus Math has a great deal of Common Core math resources for grades 7-8 including problem and task banks sorted by standards.

Docs Teach is a site with the National Archives that has a searchable database of historical documents.

Smithsonian Quests From the art world to the zoo, from underwater to outer space, from current problems to future solutions, your students will have the freedom to explore their interests and make connections across subjects. They’ll develop skills and enhance their learning through discovery, while earning digital badges as credentials along the way.

Watch this video to learn more:

PBS News Hour Extra Lesson Plans is a great site to use for Common Core.  Start with a current events video, read background text, and analyze the meaning and implications of the story.  Lesson plans and ideas are included on the site.

Secondary Common Core ELA Resources from Canyon School District has excellent CCSS ELA resources for grades 6-12.

CCSD Wiki Teacher is a powerful site from Clark County School District in Nevada has opened its resources to all teachers who sign up with an email account.  Correlated to CCSS are dozens of resources by subject and grade level.  Just go to your grade level and subject and at your fingertips you find – standards, student friendly learning targets, essential questions, textbook resources, teaching suggestions, and “On Demand” professional development.  This is one of the best sites I have seen for helping teachers implement Common Core standards.

Math Monday In a partnership with Make: Online, the Museum presents a weekly column discussing fun, experiential, and puzzling topics in mathematics. Collected here are the Math Monday posts from past weeks.

Common Core Resources for Students with Disabilities has a multitude of resources to help both regular education and special education teachers implement Common Core in their classrooms.

The Teacher Moves section of the TN Curriculum Center has is organized according to the needs and wants that all teachers seem to share.

• Work Smart – Stable and consistent routines that make the most efficient use of instructional time.
• Maintain a Safe Learning Environment – Effective classroom management techniques applied firmly, fairly, and with consistency.
• Build Efforts to Learn – Activities that motivate students to dedicate the energy needed to learn.
• Teach Effectively- Clear and explicit communication practices that focus tightly on specific learning targets.
• Drive Home Understanding – Approaches that make it possible for students to gain a deep and lasting understanding of content and associated practices.

37 Writing Prompts for Social Studies/History uses visual cues as prompts for student writing.  Great integration of Language Arts and Social Studies – compatible with Common Core.

Common Core Math Videos from Southeast Comprehensive Center are organized by grade levels. These videos are intended for teachers to show how to take the Math Common Core standards and apply best practices for instruction in the classroom.

Here is a collection from TN of sample Common Core writing prompts and a scoring rubric

5th grade prompts

8th grade prompts

11th grade prompts

Scoring Materials

Scoring materials for sample prompts

Just came upon a phenomenal resource for Common Core Math geared specifically to middle school teachers.  Created by teacher Alison Shook, this Livebinder has everything from tasks, teaching resources, inclusion ideas, integrating reading & writing, students activities, and even algebra resources.

Check it out at:

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=380192

Curriculum Corner Common Core ELA Checklists by Grade Level is a helpful tool for teachers implementing Common Core Standards in the classroom.  There are many other good Common Core Resources on this web site.

Using Document Cameras in the Classroom has many ideas for integrating the use of the cameras with Common Core Standards.

Common Core Math Videos from Southeast Comprehensive Center are organized by grade levels.  These videos are intended for teachers to show how to take the Math Common Core standards and apply best practices for instruction in the classroom.

E for Explore is a new web site with dozens of student learning activities relevant to Common Core.

Tumblr Writing Prompts connects story starters with photos and graphics from the Tumblr web site.

Graphing Stories  is a site by the Buzz Math group.  Print the graph handout, play the short video, and have students graph what they see.