Common Core State Standard Resources
The following resources are organized by six ELA/Literacy instructional shifts.Shift 1: Balancing Informational and Literary TextsClick on the link to access text sets.
Access to NonfictionKelly Gallagher: To help build my students’ prior knowledge, I assign them an "Article of the Week" every Monday morning. By the end of the school year I want them to have read 35 to 40 articles about what is going on in the world. It is not enough to simply teach my students to recognize theme in a given novel; if my students are to become literate, they must broaden their reading experiences into real-world text. ~K. Gallagher
Visit his section called "Article of the Week" for a collection of articles Shift 2: Knowledge in the DisciplinesReading Primary Source Documents: Hints for Students This site also has access to 240 primary source documents and 206 papers and documents related to history.
American Rhetoric Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two
Shift 3: Staircase of ComplexityShift 4: Text-Based AnswersShift 5: Writing from SourcesShift 6: Academic VocabularyVisuWords website
More References for CCSS English Language ArtsWhite papers:
8 Strategies for Designing Lesson Plans to Meet the CCSS Opinion and Argument Writing Requirements Using Seminars to Teach the Common Core’s Speaking and Listening Standards 5 Easy Strategies for Increasing Text Complexity And many more... Access downloadable "White Papers" at Eye on Education website Kelly Gallagher's Food for Thought A collection of resources to build deeper readers and writers
Jim Burke's Digital Textbook: A Digital Anthology
Booklist Publications’ homepage for Common Core State Standards resources
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Sample Units - Grades 6-8
Granite School District Sample CCSS Units or Maps
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