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Explorers: Common Core Lessons & Activities (Cp, Pm) Carole Marsh

The Explorers Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Explorers - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
- Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
- Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
- Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
- Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Tips:
- Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
- Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 , enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
- Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Explorers - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:
- Reading for Information
- Higher-Order Thinking
- Writing Problems
- Primary Source Analysis
- Vocabulary
- Graphic Organizers
- Map Activities
- & More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Explorers - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Age of Exploration: Reading Informational Text
Reasons for Exploration: Reading Informational Text GO4
Means of Discovery: Reading Informational Text
Obstacles and Rewards: Classifying Information GO5
Prince Henry the Navigator: Reading Informational TextPortuguese Explorers: Reading Informational Text GO11
Columbus Discovery: Reading Informational Text
An Early Map: Primary Source Analysis
The New World: Primary Source Analysis
Tainos: Reading Informational Text
The Age of Exploration: Graphic Organizer G
More Spanish Explorers: Reading Informational Text G
Conquistadors: Reading Informational Text GO1
English Explorers: Reading Informational Text
French Explorers: Reading Informational Text
Explorer Quotations: Point of View G
Exploring the Americas: Chronological Events GO12
Regions of Exploration: Map Activity
Explorer s Vocabulary: Vocabulary G
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)