- 10/01/13
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A Graph of the Content Standards
This detailed graphic was created by CCSSM lead writer Jason Zimba and shows the connections among mathematics standards within and acr…
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- 09/15/16
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A Teachers' Guide to the Common Core: A Resource Guide f…
As stated in this publication, "The purpose of this guide is to assist specialists and mainstream educators to engage in professi…
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- 10/31/13
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Advancing Our Students' Language and Literacy: The Chall…
This article about text complexity appeared in American Educator magazine.
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- 07/26/17
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Aligning Content and Practice: The Design of the Instruc…
Content-specific feedback is a critical part of a teacher’s professional development. The highest-impact feedback and professiona…
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- 10/27/16
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Can parents help with math homework? YES
This guest post by Jason Zimba on the Fordham Instititute website, edexcellence.net, offers examples of how parents can help students w…
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- 09/05/13
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CCSS ELA/Literacy Appendix A: Research Supporting Key El…
This appendix provides research demonstrating that while the complexity of reading demands for college and careers have risen over the …
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- 07/30/14
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CCSS ELA/Literacy Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample …
This appendix provides exemplars of reading text complexity, quality, and range & sample performance tasks related to the Comm…
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- 02/08/16
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CCSS ELA/Literacy Appendix C: Samples of Student Writing…
This appendix provides writing samples that have been annotated to illustrate the criteria required to meet the Common Core State Stand…
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- 08/23/13
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Close Analytical Reading through a Structured Journal
In this essay, lifelong ELA teacher Meredith Liben offers a strategy drawn from her experience supporting students in close readings of…
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- 09/05/13
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Common Core Math Standards Implementation Can Lead to Im…
This press release describes research by education professor Bill Schmidt that provides evidence for the claim that successful implemen…
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- 10/27/16
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Common Core standards emphasize 'math that matters most'…
This interview with Jason Zimba appeared in edsource.org.
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- 08/23/13
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Focusing on High Impact Excerpts When Reading Full Lengt…
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- 12/17/13
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Fractions Progression Module
This seven-unit module from Illustrative Mathematics presents the key ideas of the domain, Number and Operations &ndash…
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- 05/20/15
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Framework for Preparing, Implementing, and Assessing Clo…
A veteran educator presents a detailed, step-by-step guide to preparing, implementing, and assessing close reading lessons.
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- 08/20/13
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How to Achieve Deep Understanding of a Complex Text
Middle school ELA and social studies teacher Joanna Hawkins discusses the thoughtful craftsmanship it takes for teachers to create deep…
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- 02/10/15
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Implementation: Issues with a Leveled-Only Text Approach…
As stated in this piece, part of a research series on implementation, "The instructional approach of matching text difficulty levels to…
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- 02/10/15
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Implementation: The Role of Close Reading in Common Core…
As stated in this piece, part of a research series on implementation, "Close reading is an instructional approach strongly associated w…
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- 12/11/14
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Key Facts: The Development and Design of the Common Core…
This fact sheet contains key information about the development and design of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. It is bas…
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- 09/05/13
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Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics
Using concrete examples from Liping Ma's famous book, mathematician Richard Askey explores in this article from American Educator …
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- 08/23/13
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Lasting Achievements in K–8
CCSSM lead writer Jason Zimba describes the connections between key mathematical content from lower grades and how it connects to high …
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- 02/26/16
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Learning to Look: How rigorous arts classrooms provide i…
As stated in this publication, "Let us look to the methodology of our high-functioning arts programs for compelling models for restruct…
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- 08/23/13
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Mathematical Musings Forum: Questions about the standard…
This dicussion forum on the Mathematical Musings blog includes rich discussions of the mathematical content in CCR standards and i…
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- 03/26/13
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Measures of Text Difficulty: Testing their Predictive Va…
As stated in this research study of text analysis tools that measure text complexity quantitatively, "The Common Core State Standards d…
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- 08/23/13
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New Twists on an Old Standard
In this piece, Jason Zimba, a CCSS lead writer, uses specific standards as examples to explain the ways in which the CCSS and othe…
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- 05/27/15
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Observations on CCSSM Standards for Mathematical Content…
This document shows how the concept of focus in mathematics was built into the CCSSM. It shows different ways one can look at the stand…
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- 09/05/13
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Phoenix Rising: Bringing the Common Core State Mathemati…
In this article from American Educator, Berkeley mathematics professor Hung-Hsi Wu explores deficits in existing mathematics textbooks …
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- 04/27/17
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Practice What You Teach: Connecting Curriculum & Profess…
Improving teaching and advancing student learning require weaving together both the curriculum that students engage with every day and …
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- 08/23/13
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Progressions Documents for the Common Core State Standar…
The Common Core State Standards in mathematics were built on progressions: narrative documents describing the progression of a topic ac…
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- 08/23/13
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Publishers' Criteria for the CCSS in Mathematics
These documents provide criteria for selecting, developing, or revising curricular materials, textbooks, and other resources at two dif…
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- 08/23/13
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Reaching the Goal: The Applicability and Importance of t…
Research on how applicable and important the CCSS are to entry-level college courses and entering the workforce.
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- 09/05/13
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Reading Between the Lines: What the ACT Reveals about Co…
Based on data gathered from ACT results, this report focuses on steps to improve reading skills among high school students. Specificall…
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- 09/05/13
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Realizing Opportunities for English Learners in the Com…
This publication explores strategies for supporting ELL students in mastering Common Core literacy.
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- 09/05/13
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Reassessing U.S. International Mathematics Performance: …
This research study concludes that improved performance on international mathematics assessments requires building a strong mathematics…
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- 02/10/15
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Research Supporting Shift 1: Complex Text
This piece, part of a research series on the Shifts, provides a summary of key research and relevant findings related to complex t…
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- 02/10/15
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Research Supporting Shift 2: Using Evidence from Text
This piece, part of a research series on the Shifts, provides a summary of key research and relevant findings related to using eviden…
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- 02/10/15
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Research Supporting Shift 3: Building Knowledge
This piece, part of a research series on the Shifts, provides a summary of research and relevant findings related to building know…
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- 02/10/15
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Research Supporting the Common Core ELA/Literacy Shifts …
As stated in this piece, "The following selected bibliography provides key research in two areas: Research which supports the Instru…
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- 08/23/13
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Revised Publishers' Criteria for ELA/Literacy
These documents support faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards and other college- and career-ready standards in ELA…
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- 04/11/18
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Selecting and Using Academic Vocabulary in Instruction
This guidance document provides research-based strategies and classroom activities to support academic vocabulary instruction. In this …
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- 09/10/13
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Standards for Mathematical Practice
As stated in this publication, "The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe varieties of expertise that mathematics educators at a…
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- 09/05/13
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Supplemental Information for Appendix A of the Common Co…
This supplement provides new research on text complexity and offers the official grade band ranges to use for text complexity along wit…
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- 02/26/16
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Teaching Fractions According to The Common Core State St…
As stated in this piece, "This is one person’s view of how the Common Core Standards on fractions in grades 3-7 may be taught. &n…
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- 10/27/16
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The Common Core and the Potential for Mathematicians to …
This article appeared in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society .
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- 10/27/16
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The Development and Design of the Common Core State Stan…
As stated in this article published in the New England Journal of Public Policy, "As one of the lead writers of the Common Core State S…
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- 09/10/15
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The Developmental Appropriateness of the Common Core Sta…
In this piece, one of the lead writers of the CCSSM explains how the standards are developmentally appropriate. He debunks popular myth…
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- 04/04/13
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The Importance of Vocabulary and Syntax
In this essay, former teacher and principal David Liben explains the crucial role of vocabulary and syntax in teaching complex texts.…
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- 04/03/13
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The Progression of Reading Comprehension
This policy paper is intended for educators and researchers to provide information about the key components of fostering reading compre…
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- 09/05/13
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The Role of Fiction in the High School English Language …
This article, written by lead authors of the CCSS and published in the Huffington Post, clarifies the role of fiction and literature in…
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- 10/01/13
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The Structure is the Standards
This essay by CCSSM lead writers Phil Daro, William McCallum, and Jason Zimba describes the importance of the structure of the standard…
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- 08/23/13
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Thinking About Place Value in Grade 2
This piece explains and offers clear examples and non-examples of assessing conceptual understanding, using a 2nd grade math …
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- 09/09/13
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Three Core Shifts to Deliver on the Promise of the Commo…
As stated in this publication, "Three core shifts in literacy and math, deeply grounded in the Standards themselves, offer a way to foc…
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- 04/05/13
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Three Pillars of First Grade Mathematics
In this article, mathematician Roger Howe explains coherence and conceptual mathematics in the CCSS using the example of first grade ma…
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- 08/20/13
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Transitioning to the Common Core
In this piece, high school social studies teacher Lyn Cannaday provides an account of why the transition to the Common Core in her urba…
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- 10/01/13
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Units, a Unifying Idea in Measurement, Fractions, and Ba…
In this blog post, CCSS lead writer Jason Zimba discusses how the ideas of “times as much” fit in with other important doma…
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- 07/18/14
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Vocabulary and the Common Core
Vocabulary research paper and four practice exercises for teachers, coaches, and school leaders to use in PD or self-teaching on v…
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- 06/04/15
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What Common Core State Standards Say (and DON’T Say) abo…
This document explains exactly what the Common Core expects of kindergarten students in ELA/literacy. It defines key terms and clarifie…
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- 06/04/15
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What Do the Common Core State Standards for ELA/Literacy…
This document debunks myths about the kindergarten ELA/literacy standards. It explains the reasons these myths have taken hold an…
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- 08/20/13
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Which Words Do I Teach and How?
This article, by lifelong teacher and principal David Liben, provides guidance on vocabulary instruction. It is excerpted from the long…
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- 08/20/13
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Why Complex Text Matters
In this article, David Liben explores the ACT research finding that the ability to read and understand complex text is the best way to …
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- 09/11/13
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‘Both and’ Literacy Instruction K-5: A Proposed Paradigm…
An "either-or" approach to concepts like close reading and volume of reading leaves important elements out. This paper discusses …