Common+Core+State+Standards+Resources

= General Resources =

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[|Concept Organizers]: Developed by Delaware Department of Education, these concept organizers break the reading and writing standards into what students should know, understand, and do. These concept organizers are helpful in breaking down the standards in order to scaffold student learning.

EduCore, a website sponsored by ASCD, contains resources such as webinars, white papers, glossary, videos, and lessons aligned with the CCSS.

You may find the EduCore page, Literacy Tools, particularly helpful for implementing the literacy standards in ELA as well as the Literacy Standards for History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects.

Achieve the Core provides professional development modules, teaching resources and research for the CCSS.

The Teaching Channel provides videos of teaching strategies as well as blogs. You can save videos in your own workspace with a free account. Once you register, you will receive email updates with suggested, new resources.

Let's Chat Core is a series on the Teaching Channel. Sarah Brown Wessling answers questions about teaching the CCSS.

NCDPI K-12 English Language Arts Wiki-- Managed by North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, this wiki provides resources and updates on Common Core implementation.

See the CCSS in action in this video from Teaching Channel. media type="custom" key="21826552" Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has released sample test items including reading and writing items as well as perfomance tasks. Be sure to hover over the "View more English Language Arts/Literacy Sample Items" to see all sample items.

Released Forms for English II EOC

Test Specifications NC Measures of Student Learning for English I, English III, and English IV

Resources for Close Reading
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"A Primer on 'Close Reading of Text'" This document, produced by the Aspen Institute, provides a clear definition of //close reading// and //text-dependent questions//. This is a good starting point for considering how to teach close reading.

[|"Common Core Teaching and Learning Strategies English Language Arts Reading Informational Texts grades 6-12."] The Illinois State Board of Education has produced this and the following document that provides strategies for teaching each of the standards in the reading strand.

"Common Core Teaching and Learning Strategies English Language Arts Reading Literature grades 6-12"

= Resources for Writing =

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National Writing Project: Literacy and the Common Core-- this page provides resources and conversation about writing in the CCSS.

= Resources for Speaking and Listening =

The cornerstone of Paideia philosophy is the seminar, "a collaborative, intellectual dialogue facilitated by open-ended questions about a text." This site provides samples of LDC/Paideia modules to teach reading, speaking and listening, and writing in a seamless way. = =