Dropbox - Simplify your life. SMART Exchange - USA - Log into the SMART Exchange. Cmapp.wcpss. Common Core Support Tools. Below you will find unpacking standards documents to support teachers in their understanding of the common core and essential standards. The unpacking documents demonstrate at a granular level the knowledge and skills students are expected to master at a particular grade. Important Note: The current Standard Course of Study will continue to be taught and tested during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years. New standards and assessments are to be implemented for the first time beginning with the 2012-13 school year. Please send any thoughts, feedback, questions and ideas about additional resources that would help you start preparing to teach the new standards to feedback@dpi.nc.gov.
English Language Arts Unpacking Standards Kindergarten (pdf, 608kb) 1st Grade (pdf, 646kb) 2nd Grade (pdf, 761kb) 3rd Grade (pdf, 849kb) 4th Grade (pdf, 833kb) 5th Grade (pdf, 1.6mb) 6th Grade (pdf, 1.3mb) 7th Grade (pdf, 1016kb) 8th Grade (pdf, 1.0mb) English I & II (pdf, 1.1mb) English III & IV (pdf, 1.2mb) LEARN NC: Search results. Map skills and higher-order thinking This series of articles looks at map skills as a kind of visual literacy, considering what maps are, how they're made, and the higher-order thinking skills students need to move from simply decoding maps to fully comprehending them.
Format: series (multiple pages) Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn. Format: article By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert. Map skills In Map skills and higher-order thinking, page 1 It used to be a lot of work to make a map. Format: article/best practice By David Walbert. Resources for looking at art A guide to some of the best websites, activities, and print resources for building visual literacy through the study of art. By Melissa Thibault. Reading maps: A process guide In Map skills and higher-order thinking, page 15 In Educator's Guides: North Carolina Digital History, page 2.2 Rethinking Reports.
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