Curriculum Planning
Common Core in Action Series
Grade-level and subject-specific resources for Common Core-aligned lessons.
November 12, 2013 Updated June 24, 2015
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)