Elementary Matters: Common Core Curriculum Map Book Study--Second Grade Unit 3: Building Bridges With Unlikely Friends. Some of my teacher/ blogging friends and myself are doing a book study on this book. (If you click the book, it will take you to Amazon for more information about the book.) My own district is adopting the Common Core State Standards this year.
As I've been exploring the standards, it makes a lot of sense to teach integrated units, which is just what this book is about. These units were developed by a team of teachers just like us! On Tuesday, Yvonne from Sassy in Second did an overview of the book as well as the second grade curriculum maps. Be sure to view her overview here! On Wednesday, Jenn from Best Practices 4 Teaching blogged about Grade 2, Unit 1. On Thursday, Michelle from Teach123 blogged about Unit 2, The Wild West. Today is Friday, and it's my turn! The book is set up by grade level (K - 5) and has 6 week units for every grade level. I'm in charge of Grade 2 Unit 3 --Building Bridges With Unlikely Friends These are some of the suggested books for Unit 3. Works of fiction: 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, 276kb) 1st Grade (pdf, 161kb) 2nd Grade (pdf, 170kb) 3rd Grade (pdf, 165kb) 4th Grade (pdf, 282kb) 5th Grade (pdf, 298kb) 6th Grade (pdf, 315kb) 7th Grade (pdf, 300kb) 8th Grade (pdf, 340kb) English I & II (pdf, 303kb) English III & IV (pdf, 302kb) What does 21st century learning look like in an elementary school? Image from Technically Invisible That’s the question that was posed to me this week by the faculty at a wonderful school on Manhattan’s upper east side in preparation for some upcoming PD work. I think it’s an outstanding question that’s worth reflecting on in-depth as we all start to think about what our goals and direction are for the next school year. What does 21st century learning look like? Is an essential question and overarching topic that I hope to come back to again and again as I think about what works in real classrooms.
It’s an especially important consideration at the elementary level, because so many of the tech trends in education are tested out and geared toward middle and high schools. To me, 21st century learning in an elementary school has the same overall goals as a secondary school: it’s only the implementation that differs. You don’t have to use every program that’s out there, or introduce a new one with every unit. So that’s my thinking on this topic right now. Common Core Implementation Workbook.