Common Core State Standards
What's New
- Click here to visit the NEW Common Core State Standards webpage for the Monterey County Office of Education.
Resources for Developing CCSS Lessons and Assessments
Listed below are the States with Common Core resources. Most States have general information about Common Core, but the following States have more extensive information, which is listed, as of 6/5/12.
Connecticut:
- Units of Study for K-12th grade in the areas of Reading and Writing (also Math)
- PreK crosswalks
- Publisher Criteria for Materials
- Pacing Guides
Delaware:
- Writing Rubrics
- Scavenger Hunt activity
- Text Passage Analysis
Hawaii:
- Performance-based Tasks
- Kindergarten Observation Record
- Resources for Teachers
- Significant Shifts for ELA
Idaho:
- Unpacked Kindergarten Standards
- Writing Rubrics for grades 5, 7, 9
Illinois:
- Research Article on Closing the Expectations Gap
- Resources for Teachers (websites)
- Parents Guides to CCSS by grade level
Kansas:
- Bloom's Taxonomy Supports
- Templates to Analyze Text
- Activities for Implementing Standards
- Lesson Plan Templates
- Text Complexity—many resources
Maine:
- Basic activities for deepening understanding of CCSS
- Process for creation of Performance Based Assessments
- Peer Editing Protocol
- Mini-courses of key components of ELA standards
- Analyzing text to read like a writer
- How to develop question for argument writing
Maryland:
- Essential skills and foundations needed for each standard at every grade level
- Sample performance assessments template
Missouri:
- Several training interactive activities for getting to know CCSS
- Presentations for K-2,3-5, 6-8, 9-12, and other content areas to build background
Montana:
- Curriculum Guide protocol
- Instructional Materials Toolkit
New Hampshire:
- ELA graphic
- State Implementation Framework
- Template for Implementation
- Quick version of Understanding the ELA standards
New York:
- Shifts in the standards for both Math and English Language Arts
- Sample units of instruction for elementary, middle school, and high school
- Preschool and Common Core
- Rubrics to evaluate units of instruction
Ohio:
- ELA Gap Analysis Template and Documentation for Process
- Unit on Close Reading of Gettysburg Address
- Curricular support for developing units of study based upon CCSS
- Preschool (TK?) standards based upon Kinder CCSS
- Teacher Inventory on use of Research skills
Oregon:
- RtI supports
- CCSS Facilitator Training Notes, Presentations, and Handouts
Tennessee
Vermont:
- Sample units for specific titles
- Templates for developing units
- Text Complexity presentation
- Graphic Organizer of ELA Domains
- Integration of Literacy Across the Content Areas presentation
- K-1 presentation
- Explicit Instruction template
- Complex Texts in Science presentation
- Trainer Notes for Text Complexity
Washington:
- Grade Level Highlights (could be used for parent education)
- Graphic Organizer of ELA Skills/Concepts
