Welcome!

Greetings to all of you who are interested in Common Core standards, instruction, and methods! This blog is for you! You may add to the content by forwarding your recommendation to me. Only the best will be posted. Thank you for your contributions and your interest in improving mathematics conceptual development for our students, and increasing literacy in English and writing!

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

LearnZillion Common Core Lessons

There are over 2000 lessons available on this website.  Thanks, Cheri Zullo, for the recommendation!

http://learnzillion.com/

School Librarians and the Common Core

livebinder link for librarians

Thanks, Doreen Brown, for sharing this livebinder from the PARCC site especially for school librarians!

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Unpacking the Standards

North Carolina has a grade by grade list for both ELA and Math.  I found it very helpful.  There is also a list of the text exemplars with links to websites to support those texts.

Unpacking the Standards-Math and ELA

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

ELA Standards-Aligned Question Stems

Christina Hank has a great ELA blog.  She posted these question stems created by high school teacher Robert Belprez.  Thanks, Robert and Christina!

http://turnonyourbrain.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/standards-aligned-question-stems/