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What this is: Hundreds of samples of Common Core-aligned student work from K-12 classrooms around the country. Why it matters: The shifts require that teachers gain fluency in identifying Common Core-aligned writing techniques at every grade level.

What this is: Hundreds of samples of Common Core-aligned student work from K-12 classrooms around the country. Why it matters: The shifts require that teachers gain fluency in identifying Common Core-aligned writing techniques at every grade level.

Search Tasks NYC educators and national experts are developing Common Core-aligned tasks embedded in a unit of study to support schools in implementing the Citywide Instructional Expectations. Educators may choose to adopt these resources in their entirety or adapt the materials to best address students' diverse needs. Search a growing assortment of Common Core-aligned tasks, units and student work by keyword, grade level, subject area and Common Core Learning Standard.

A Common Core Webinar Series

The Shifts in ELA/Literacy and math provide foundational knowledge for understanding the Common Core State Standards by describing the essential changes in practice required by the standards. Below, we've shared materials that help educators grasp the Shifts in detail.

Good resource for Common Core Units

Are you searching for resources to implement the Common Core State Standards? Here you will find current, relevant, evidence-based tools and professional development to smooth your transition into a new era of teaching and learning.

The History Blueprint aims to revolutionize history instruction.  It combines innovative curriculum, assessment tools, student literacy support, and teacher professional development, aligned with the Common Core State Standards. To learn more, click on the following links:

Visual, creative ways for students to organize information to influence more critical thinking skills to guide them in thinking and writing skills to boost their experience in Common Core through technology! Try me! Sample this site and prepare for upcoming information on it, presentation scheduled: April 5, 2013 at the title 1 meeting by CJ.

Steal These Tools Free, high-quality resources for educators to implement the Common Core State Standards.

UC Davis Lessons and materials for history... Common Core

Common Core Units

Use this collection of turnkey resources to keep families up-to-date about today's digital landscape and how kids engage in this 24/7 world of media. Start by surveying your student and family community to gauge what media issues matter most to them. Next, send home the customizable flyer to promote a Family Engagement Night. Use our grade band specific presentations and scripts to guide your school community in a lively discussion about kids and media. Keep the conversation going by embedding Common Sense's blog widgets into your site's website or newsletter.

Would love to see us dig more into resources like these and build literature around them than wait for the magic CC curriculum to hit our doorstep.

Would love to see us dig more into resources like these and build literature around them than wait for the magic CC curriculum to hit our doorstep.

This site provides an extensive collection of free resources, math games, and hands-on math activities aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Our math printables are suitable for use in math centers, small group or whole class settings. Instructions for each activity are presented in large print on a task card in child-friendly language to enable students to work on tasks independently after a brief introduction to the task. All files are in PDF format and can be accessed using Adobe Reader. Also available are Math Journal Tasks (K-5), Math Vocabulary Resources (Gds. 2-5) and Math Projects (Gds. 3-5) for teachers looking for ways to support students' math writing skills while developing key concepts and skills. See our E-Books page for more information on these resources.

Learners become familiar with registers of language through class discussion and exposure to examples of a common fairy tale written in two different registers. Working in small groups, learners then translate a story into two different registers.

Fun discussion starter for common math misconceptions.

Ready made CCSS lessons