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Nice description of instructional shifts and how parents can help their children with Common Core instructional changes.

How will your instruction change as you teach with the Common Core State Standards? This Engage NY page outlines the instructional shifts.

Achieve the Core has put together this list of major, supporting, and additional content areas with the key instructional shifts. This is helpful when deciding which areas demand the most attention.

This document from Achieve the Core (www.achievethecore.org) will help you focus your instruction in math. It lists the standards in a hierarchy for each grade. Worth a look if you find you are short on time.

Danielson for students? The PARCC Performance Level Descriptors are rubrics related to the CCSS and PARCC "claims." This might give you a great sense of how your instruction is meeting the goals of CCSS.

While this site is not the easiest to navigate, it has a wealth of information. Keep an eye out for the PLDs (Performance Level Descriptors) for each grade level (3-8). These will help guide your instruction as you move your students toward PARCC success. Use this link to get to the PLDs: scroll down and click math or language arts to see the grade level links you want. If you want to print the PLDs for a grade level, make sure you've got the paper tray full in your printer--some of them are over 30 pages long.