Common Core Standards for Elementary Grades K–2 Math & English Language Arts: A Quick-Start Guide, May/2013

Get this all-in-one tool to implement Common Core standards for both math and English language arts in grades K–2. The authors present an overall guide to the standards, covering their implications for planning, teaching, and learning. Putting this guide in every teacher's hands ensures they will know
 

1. The structure, terminology, and emphases of the Common Core standards.
2. The meaning of the individual content standards by strand in English language arts and by domain in math.
3. How the standards connect and build on prior learning, deepen understanding, promote real-world application, and prepare students for more challenging work ahead.

A practical lesson planning process to use with the Common Core standards, based on Classroom Instruction That Works, 2nd Edition, is included, along with six sample lessons—three for each subject at each of the covered grade levels.