Common Core Curriculum

Links to help you transition to the Common Core Curriculum

Galesburg CUSD 205 Wiki

The Curriculum Corner

Common Core State Standards Initiative

Scholastic Common Sense for the Common Core

Darke County "I Can" Statements

Common Core Progression Charts

Engage NY Video Library

Teaching the Core: A Non-Freaked Out Approach to the CCS

Education to the Core

Teacher Help for Parents

A Year of Many Firsts Blog

Teach Junkie: Common Core Non-Fiction

Scholastic Common Core Titles by State

PARCC Games

Get in the Fold Blog

Share My Lesson

Pathways to the Common Core videos

Read Tennessee

Georgia Common Core

Kentucky Common Core

Arizona Common Core

North Carolina Common Core

Common Core Ninja Infographic

Common Core Reading Resources

San Juan Unified School District

Common Core Informational Text Grades 4-6

Common Core Classrooms

Empire State Information Fluency Continuum

Guided Reading

Links to resources and blogs to help support Guided Reading lessons, planning, and implementation

Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention

Linda Dorn & Carla Soffos Guided Reading Plus

The 2 Sisters Daily 5 and CAFE

Jan Richardson Guided Reading

Readworks Reading Passages

Digital Readworks

Debbie Diller Work Stations and Small Group Reading

Common Lit

Get Epic

What the Teacher Wants Blog: Guided Reading Management

National Geographic Explorer

DePaul Reading/Thinking Passages

Read Theory Activities

Lesson Plan SOS Blog

Reading Resource: Lesson Plans, Tips, and Strategies for Guided Reading

Runde's Room: Guided Reading Groups

Hello Mrs. Sykes: Guided Reading Guide and Freebie

Classroom Freebies: Guided Reading Prompts

Internet 4 Classrooms: Common Core ELA Videos

Busy Teachers' Cafe: Comprehension Strategies

The Creative Chalkboard Blog: Show Me the Evidence Bookmarks

Close Read Complex Text

Questioning for Comprehension

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Cards


Links to video clips for Guided Reading



Gudied Reading in a 3rd Grade Classroom

3rd Grade Guided Reading Day 2

Guided Reading Phase 1 Grade 2 Text Features

Guided Reading Video

Instructional Strategies for Guided Reading that Enhance Students' Reading Comprehension

Self Selected Reading

A variety of read-aloud websites

Galesburg Library: Children's Room/Tumblebooks  (Click on Children's Room then Tumblebooks)

Storyline Online Stories

PBS Kids Stories

AOL Kids Stories

 Magic Keys: Children's Storybooks

American Folklore Stories

Book Pig Recommendations

Why Can't I Skip My 20 Minutes of Reading Tonight?

The Organized Classroom Blog: Classroom Library Checkout Systems

Open Mic Friday

The Curious Apple: Non-Fiction Reading Response Boards

Minds in Bloom: Books to Read Aloud for 3rd-5th Grade

Teaching is a Work of HEART Blog

KC Edventures Blog

Mem Fox Reading Aloud: Do It Like This

Mem Fox Reads Aloud

Shel Silverstein Reads Aloud

1973 Giving Tree

Scholastic Book Flix

Twisted Fairy Tales

The Monster at the End of This Book

Word Work

Some of my favorite word work ideas

Visu Words

Rockin Teacher Materials Blog

ABC Fast Phonics

Smenkens Education

Word Games

More Word Games

Starfall

Clutter Free Classroom Blog

Elkonin Boxes Video

Elkonin Boxes Introduction Video

Elkonin Boxes for Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words

Everyone Deserves to Learn Blog: Word Family Warm Up Game

Jolly Songs Video

Keen on Kindergarten Blog

Montessori Blog

Mrs. Lesser: Prefix/Suffix Activity

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas: Sight Word Twister

Teacher Bits and Bobs Blog

TPT Freebie: Word Work Homework

Kids Activities Blog

Word Work in a Fifth- and Sixth-Grade Classroom Video

Backyard Scrabble

Guess My Word Spinner Ideas

Word Work Cards

Moffatt Girls Blog: 50 pages of sight word freebies

Sight Word Showdown

Fabulous in Fourth Blog: Root Words

Printable Handwriting Worksheets

Adventures in Teaching Blog

Cup Stacking Sight Words

Word Work Centers

Sight Word Candyland

Scrabble Tiles

30 Ways to Practice Spelling Words

Magnetic Letter Boggle

All Things Balanced Literacy

Some of my favorite links to a variety of literacy activities and literacy blogs

Kahoot

Voki

Plickers

Jen Jones: Fifty Shades of the Common Core ELA

Florida Center for Reading Research

Reading Power Points

Pete's Power Point Station

PBS Kids

Educational Cyber Playground

Wartgames

Smenkens Education

Enchanted Learning

Where the Wild Things Learn Blog

Krazee 4 Kindergarten Blog

Julie Ballew: A Literate Life

The Teachers' Corner: Resources, Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Activities

What the Teacher Wants Blog

Seusstastic Blog

A Teacher's Treasure: Sub Tub

Read and Write with Rebecca

Finally in First Blog

Joyful Learning in KC: Kindergarten Blog

InTec InSights: Technology Integration Ideas for the Classroom

I Love 2 Teach Blog

Imagination Soup: New Picture Books for Summer 2013

Dots-n-Spots: 4th Grade Teaching Ideas

Kindergals Blog

Mrs. Wood's Kindergarten Class Blog

Differentiation Station Blog

The Teacher's Cauldron Blog

What's Skow-ing on in 4th Grade Blog

Teaching in Flip Flops Blog

Teaching That Makes Sense

Hello Literacy Blog

Tunstall Times Blog

World of Reading (Read and write book reviews)

4 Block Plans, Activities, and Forms

Read Theory Activities

Have Fun Teaching: Reading Response Worksheets

K12 Reader: Reading Instruction Resources

Mrs. Lewis' Learning Library Blog

Kinderdi Blog

Serenade to Second Grade Blog

Doing the Daily 5 Blog

Simply 2nd Resources Blog

Teaching My Friends Blog

Literacy & Math Ideas Blog

Wild Rumpus Schoolhouse Blog

3rd Grade Thoughts: Daily 5

Mrs. Bond's Fantastic First Grade

Monarch Madness: 2nd Grade Daily 5 Blog

The Busy Educator Newsletter

The RtI Guy

Simply Centers: Freebies

Frogs and Cupcakes Blog

Chart Chums

Sardis Enrichment School: Daily 5

1st Grade Rocks Blog

Imagination Soup

Writing

Collections of Writing Ideas, Graphic Organizers, and Links

Links specific to Trait Writing:

No Red Ink

Boom Writer

Education Northwest

Smenkens Education

Writing Fix

Lee Summit

Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snapshots

Kim's Korner for Teacher Talk

Scholastic Mentor Texts for the Traits of Writing

The Literate Learner

Dover School District

Links specific to Writing Workshop including a wealth of graphic organizers:

Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snapshots

Read Write Think Graphic Organizers

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Education Place: Graphic Organizers

teAchnology Graphic Organizers

A Day in the Life of Our Writing Workshop Video

Writers Workshop Video

Writer's Workshop Video

Writing for the Common Core and Newspaper Writing:

Tanya Rae Blog: Common Core Writing Prompts

NY Times Common Core Writing Prompts

TweenTribune | News for Kids

Times Machine: NY Times Archives

Primary Resources: Newspapers and Journalistic Writing

Scoop.It!: Creating Newspapers in the Classroom

The Write Site Newsroom

Project Write MSU Graphic Organizers

Enchanted Learning: Newspapers

Microsoft Word Newspaper Template

SparkleBox Teaching Resources

The Newspaper Clipping (Create Your Own)

NY Times Campus Weblines

Other fun links to consider for writing activities:

Professor Garfield

Smenkens Education

Corbett Harrison: Always Write

Freeology Graphic Organizers

Poetry Forms

Creative Writing Made Easy

House of Baby Piranha: Goggly Eye Writing Starter

Writing Centers

Make Beliefs Comix