Common Core in Action Series

This collection of blog posts highlights lesson plans, ideas, and other useful resources to help you bring Common Core-aligned lessons into your classroom. We're actively building this repository of ideas every week, so make sure to bookmark this page. You can also follow #CCSS or #CCSSChat on Twitter for the latest updates.

Assessment

• The State of the Common Core

All Grades/Anchor Standards

• 11 Tips on Teaching Common Core Critical Vocabulary
• Common Core in Action: Writing for an Audience
• Common Core in Action: ELA
• Ideas for Implementing Literacy Common Core in the Non-ELA Classroom
• Use Arts Integration to Enhance Common Core
• Using QR Codes to Differentiate Instruction
• Common Core in Action: Reviving the Civic Mission of Schools

English Language Arts

Grades K-5

• ELA Common Core Resources for Elementary Educators
• Planning a Lesson, Telling a Story (Writing, K)
• Inquiry, Curiosity, Exploration, and the Common Core (Speaking and Listening, Grade 3)
• Modeling: Essential for Learning (Reading Informational Text, Grade 4)
• Common Core in Action: Examining 2 Texts in the Social Studies Classroom (Reading Informational Text, Grade 5)

Grades 6-8

• Common Core ELA Resources for Middle School Educators
• Common Core in Action: Narrative Writing
• Argumentative Writing Is a Key Focus in Common Core Standards
• New Standards for ELA: Common Core for Middle School ELA
• Inquiry, Curiosity, Exploration and the Common Core (Speaking and Listening, Grade 6)
• Planning a Lesson, Telling a Story (Writing, Grade 6)
• Modeling: Essential for Learning (Reading Informational Text, Grade 6)
• Common Core in Action: Examining 2 Texts in the Social Studies Classroom (Reading Informational Text, Grade 7)
• How to Design Projects Around Common Core Standards (Writing, Grade 8)
• Common Core in Action: Teaching Online Ethics (Writing, Grade 8)

Grades 9-12

• Science Teachers are Implementing Common Core for ELA Standards
• Teaching Students to Analyze Complex Nonverbal Texts
• Argumentative Writing Is a Key Focus in Common Core Standards
• Uncovering "Complex Text" in the Common Core
• The Gettysburg Address: Literary Nonfiction and the Common Core
• Modeling: Essential for Learning (Reading Informational Text, Grades 9-10)
• Inquiry, Curiosity, Exploration and the Common Core (Speaking and Listening, Grades 11-12)
• Planning a Lesson, Telling a Story (Writing, Grades 11-12)
• Common Core and Planning: Organizing a Unit of Instruction (Reading Informational Text, Grades 11-12)

Math

Grades K-5

• 5 Open Education Resources for K-5 Common Core Math
• Common Core Standard: Third Grade Math Strategies
• Meaningful Connections: Objectives and Standards

Grades 6-8

• Common Core in Action: Math in the Middle School Classroom
• Meaningful Connections: Objectives and Standards

Grades 9-12

• Common Core Math: Best Resources for High School Educators
• Assessing the Common Core Standards: Real Life Mathematics