More Common Core Aligned Resources

English Learners

Stanford University’s Understanding Language

• The site includes papers and teaching resources for ELA, science, and math.
• A teaching resource: Stanford University’s Understanding Language Project ELA Unit
• The Understanding Language Project at Stanford University has published an instructional unit aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA) that shows instructional approaches that are likely to help English learners meet the CCSS ELA standards. The unit, Persuasion Across Time and Space, includes more than 230 pages of resources, complete with full student handouts.

A paper: What Does Text Complexity Mean for English Language Learners and Language Minority Students?

Visual Arts

Six Shifts in ELA/Literacy – What it Means in Visual Arts

Technical Resources

Shanahan On Literacy

• (Dr. Timothy Shanahan is one of the primary authors of the CCSS)
• An exceptional blog that offers balanced and reasonable insight and explanation of the CCSS and their implications to instruction and learning.

Literacy Design Collaborative

• The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) incorporates literacy into middle and high school content areas. Designed to make literacy instruction the foundation of the core subjects, LDC allows teachers to build content on top of a coherent approach to literacy. The LDC framework is used by teachers as common templates to create LDC tasks, modules, and courses designed to teach students to meet CCSS literacy standards while engaging in demanding content.
• There are several sample modules in ELA, H/SS, and science and technical subjects

California Department of Education: CCSS literacy web page

• The CDE CCSS Literacy Web Page has been updated. Resources on this page are now organized by content area: general, history/social studies, science, and technical subjects.
• A document by David Coleman, one of the lead writers of the CCSS, has just been posted to this page: Guiding Principles for the Arts: Grades K–12 (PDF). This document elaborates on the relationship between the standards and the arts.