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Reading center activities aligned to CCSS from the Florida Center for Reading Research. via Best content in educators | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/educators

Readworks.org is a reputable source of excellent lesson plans and reading passages focused on teaching reading comprehension.  This fall, they are developing over 1000 new CCSS aligned and Lexile-leveled non-fiction and literary passages and question sets.  This free resource will be an excellent supplement for teachers.

vertical alignment of CCSS by strand, highlights changes from one grade to next by anchor standard.

This rich (and free) resource provides examples for most of the CCSS math standards to include lessons, example problems, and more. via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation

#commoncore updates from around the nation, a round-up of free #CCSS resources and more, all in latest Core Connection: http://t.co/tY85XJOu

CCSS math activities!  Drill down to the individual standards to find thousands of online activities mapped to the standards.   There are some wonderful tools and actvities here to discover.

In a press release on Monday, August 19, PARCC, the assessment consortium developing the CCSS tests, announced the release of additional paper-based sample test items in ELA and math. This is great news for us as we work to implement CCSS and PARCC-like assessment in our classrooms. On the PARCC website, you will see a list of links for each grade level and subject in the left sidebar. Visiting each link brings you to a page with a table describing the kinds of tasks that will appear on the PARCC assessment. Links to the sample items are within this table. Let us know if you have any questions!

This brand new FREE service provides excellent news-style current event articles on a variety of topics that are written at multiple levels of text complexity. You can adjust the Lexile level of the text with a few clicks! Teachers can create student accounts and assign texts. Each text has a built in quiz linked to CCSS standards. This tool should be very valuable for any teacher trying to meet CCSS standards for informational texts while addressing differentiated reading needs among her students. Take a look and let me know what you think. Here's looking at you TPSD 6-12 teachers!

This webinar underlines the emphasis on speaking in the ELA CCSS via ASCD SmartBrief http://www.smartbrief.com/news/ascd?sb_code=rss

Excellent free units made available from Odell Education. Units on Close Reading and making evidence based claims for grade 6-12 are available here. All materials are included including the texts. Each unit is designed to be 3 weeks long. The materials and models here are very well aligned to Common Core standards and could serve as excellent models for teachers adapting to teaching the new standards.

TED Education is the education site for the TED organization. TED has short videos showcasing some of the most interesting and inspiring thinkers, innovators, scientists, and artists on the web. In this case, James Watson, one of the discoverers of DNA explains the circumstances of his discovery. TED Education lessons provide lesson plans to help students think and write critically about the media, an important skill in CCSS.

A large collection of free video lessons addressing Math and ELA Common Core Standards.   Also includes commentary from teachers, sllides to use on interactive whiteboards, and more.   

Article provides an overview of shifts in reading instruction driven by the Common Core State Standards

Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others. More...

Excellent lessons and units from ReadWriteThink. Common Core aligned. Also a source of non-fiction passages.

In this section of the PARCC website, sample items are provided for English and Math at a variety of grade levels.

Mississippi is a member state in the Partnershiop for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), the organization responsible for developing the next generation assessments which will be used to assess Common Core Standards in English and math.   The site provides a wealth of resources for assessment and teaching for common core standards.

The home for the Common Core State Standards initiative.  The website is easy to navigate and provides all of the standards and appendices for Math and ELA.