Monthly Spotlight

2019 Summer Reading Club

This summer, add new tools to your teacher toolbox. Our Summer Reading Club highlights 12 of our most popular, classroom-focused articles, filled with practical ideas to deploy next year.

Create an Account

Create an account to save your favorite resources and receive recommendations for materials based on your preferences.
Become a Core Advocate

The Core Advocates Program engages educators with the content knowledge and resources they need to support teachers and students in the transition towards a college and career ready education.

New and Notable

- 02/09/18
- 4 FILES
Math Modeling Myths (2018 February Webinar)

Ask your colleagues what it means to model with mathematics and you will probably get different answers from each one. Join us this mon…

Grades K–12
Educator Approved
- 09/30/16
- 2 FILES
Equations Procedural Skill and Fluency Mini-Assessment

This mini-assessment is designed to illustrate aspects of the standard 8.EE.C.7, specifically the expectation that students solve linea…

Grade 8
- 07/11/18
- 1 FILE
The Problem of Teaching Literacy Backwards (2018 July We…

To what extent has the half-century continuance of the opportunity gap been a result of literacy instruction in the United States being…

Grades K–12
- 04/04/18
- 2 FILES
Supporting English Language Learners with College- and C…

College- and career-ready (CCR) standards are for ALL students, but how do we help our English Language Learners (ELLs) access grade-le…

Grades K–12
Educator Approved
- 09/06/16
- 2 FILES
Number System

This mini-assessment is designed to illustrate aspects of standards 6.NS.B.2 and 6.NS.B.3, specifically the expectation that students p…

Grade 6
Educator Approved
- 07/05/16
- 1 FILE
Modeling Equivalent Expressions

What we like about this lesson Mathematically: Addresses standards 6.EE.A.2 and 6.EE.A.4 Allows students to develop an u…

Grade 6
Educator Approved
- 02/17/16
- 2 FILES
Multi-Digit Addition and Subtraction Mini-assessment

This mini-assessment is designed to illustrate the standard 4.NBT.B.4, which sets an expectation for fluently adding and subtracting mu…

Grade 4
- 05/03/18
- 3 FILES
Assessing Literacy: Using ELA Mini-Assessments (2018 May…

The Achieve the Core ELA/literacy mini-assessments were designed to provide teachers with ready-to-use assessments for their classrooms…

Grades K–12
Educator Approved
- 07/05/16
- 1 FILE
Human-Sized Number Lines: Let’s Compare Fractions

What we like about this lesson Mathematically: Addresses standards 4.NF.A.2, 4.MD.A, 4.MD.A.2 Allows students to see fra…

Grade 4
- 08/23/18
- 2 FILES
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Address to Congress Requesting a…

Includes two primary source texts, followed by nine text-dependent questions, one constructed-response writing prompt, and explana…

Grade 10
Educator Approved
- 08/23/16
- 16 FILES
Mathematics Assessment Item Alignment Modules ^©

Overview: The Item Alignment Modules are a set of professional development modules that provide users with a resource for communic…

Grades 3–12
- 08/18/17
- 10 FILES
Wonders Materials Adaptation Project

The 2017 Wonders Material Adaptation Project (MAP) provides guidance for streamlining the 2017 Wonders literacy program in grades K-6. …

Grades K–6
Educator Approved
- 02/17/16
- 2 FILES
Two-Step Problems Using the Four Operations Mini-assessm…

This mini-assessment is designed to illustrate the standard 3.OA.D.8, which sets an expectation for students to solve two-step word pro…

Grade 3
- 03/05/18
- 4 FILES
Making Materials Better: enVisionmath 2.0 (2018 March We…

Join us for an exclusive sneak peek of the yet-to-be-released adaptation guidance documents on the mathematics program enVisionmath 2.0…

Grades K–5
- 06/08/18
- 1 FILE
Collaborative Learning with Math Mini-Assessments (2018 …

Looking for ways to engage grade-level teams in content rich conversations that carry over into classroom practice? In this month&rsquo…

Grades K–12

View All

Latest Tweets From

@achievethecore

Support #ELLs in mastering the code of English! The Decodable Readers Protocol helps build foundational literacy sk… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Welcome to Achieve the Core

New and Notable