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Communities: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Communities 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 Communities - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook:
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 Communities - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook 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 Communities - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What Is a Community?: Reading Informational Text
Land, Water, and Air: Reading Informational Text
Mapping a Community: Map Activity
Rules and Laws: Reading Informational Text
Personal & Civic Responsibility: Graphical Analysis G
Get Involved!: Comparison of Primary Sources G
Helping in Your Community: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Community Helpers: Influential People G
Community Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
Your Local History Timeline: Chronological Events G
A Human Habitat: Primary Source Analysis
Types of Communities: Graphical Analysis
The Changing Community: Comparison of Primary Sources
Communities & the Environment: Reading Informational Text
Timber!: Primary Source Analysis
Protecting the Environment: Main Idea Organizer GO4
Communities of Culture: Reading Informational Text
The Chinese New Year: Reading Informational Text
Global Communities: Data Analysis
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)