Common Core Standards for Elementary Grades 3-5 Math & English Language Arts: A Quick-Start Guide

by Amber Evenson, Monette McIver, Susan Ryan, Amitra Schwols, John Kendall (Editor)

Overview

Smart implementation of the Common Core State Standards requires both an overall understanding of the standards and a grasp of their implications for planning, teaching, and learning. This Quick-Start Guide provides a succinct, all-in-one look at

* The content, structure, terminology, and emphases of the Common Core standards for mathematics and English language arts in the upper elementary grades.

* The meaning of the individual standards within each of the four ELA-literacy strands and five math domains, with an emphasis on areas that represent the most significant changes to business as usual.

* How the standards connect across and within strands, domains, and grade levels to develop foundational language arts, literacy, and mathematics learning—and prepare students for success in the critical middle school years.

Here, teachers of grades 3-5 and elementary school leaders will find information they need to begin adapting their practices to help all students master the new and challenging material contained in the standards. A practical lesson planning process to use with the Common Core, based on Classroom Instruction That Works, 2nd Ed., is included, along with six sample lessons.

LEARN THE ESSENTIALS OF THE COMMON CORE

The grade-level and subject-specific Quick-Start Guides in the Understanding the Common Core Standards series, edited by John Kendall, are designed to help school leaders and school staffs turn Common Core standards into coherent, content-rich curriculum and effective, classroom-level lessons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416614661
Publisher:	ASCD
Publication date:	03/12/2013
Pages:	263
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: About the Common Core English Language Arts Standards for Grades 3—5

Chapter 2: Reading

Chapter 3: Writing

Chapter 4: Speaking and Listening

Chapter 5: Language

Chapter 6: About the Common Core Mathematics Standards for Grades 3—5

Chapter 7: Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Chapter 8: Number and Operations in Base Ten

Chapter 9: Number and Operations—Fractions

Chapter 10: Measurement and Data

Chapter 11: Geometry

Chapter 12: Guidance for Instructional Planning

Sample Lesson 1: Reading and Speaking for Understanding: Penguins on Display (ELA, Grade 3)

Sample Lesson 2: Using Text Structure to Understand Money (ELA/Social Studies, Grade 4)

Sample Lesson 3: Reading and Writing Hurricane Katrina: Exploring Theme in Historical Fiction (ELA, Grade 5)

Sample Lesson 4: Understanding Equivalent Fractions (Mathematics, Grade 3)

Sample Lesson 5: Understanding Angle Measurements (Mathematics, Grade 4)

Sample Lesson 6: Divisions of Decimals Through Concrete Models (Mathematics, Grade 5)

References