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Video Excerpts
Learn about what the Common Core State Standards mean for content area teachers and their students with these short, informative videos. |
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What does the Common Core mean for me?
Read about the Common Core State Standards for Literacy and the shifts that they require. |
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Content Area Literacy |
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Common Core "Shifts" for English Language Arts & Literacy |
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Building Knowledge in the Disciplines |
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Appendix A Excerpt: Writing |
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Academic Vocabulary |
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Appendix A Excerpt: Vocabulary |
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Rethinking Literacy |
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Primary Sources: At the Heart of the Common Core State Standards |
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Literacy in Social Studies and Science |
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CCSS Literacy Standards for History/Social Studies
Literacy standards for grade 6 and above are predicated on teachers of ELA, history/social studies, science, and technical subjects using their content area expertise to help students meet the particular challenges of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language in their respective fields. |
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Concept Organizers for Literacy in History/Social Sciences
These Concept Organizers were developed by the Delaware Department of Education to assist their teachers in more deeply understanding the standards. These grade band documents "deconstruct" the standards, one standard at a time, providing explanations of what students should know, understand, and be able to do. |
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Grades 6-8 Word PDF |
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Grades 6-8 |
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Grades 9/10 Word PDF |
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Grades 9-10 |
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Grades 11/12 Word PDF
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Grades 11/12 |
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Correlation of the Oregon Social Sciences Standards to the CCSS
Oregon's Social Sciences Grade Level Standards were adopted by the State Board of Education in August 2011. The following documents show the how the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/SS connect to Oregon's Social Sciences standards for grades 6-8 and high school. |
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Text Exemplars & Sample Performance Tasks (From Appendix B)
The text samples exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Standards require all students in a given grade band to engage with. The choices should serve as useful guideposts in helping educators select texts of similar complexity, quality, and range for their own classrooms. They expressly do not represent a partial or complete reading list. |
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Grade 6 |
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Grades 6-8 |
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Grade 7 |
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Grades 9/10 |
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Grade 8 |
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Grades 11/12 |
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High School
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Additional Resources
Disciplinary Literacy in Social Studies
A team of teachers from across Wisconsin met in late June 2011 to determine what disciplinary literacy (DL) meant in Social Studies classrooms. This site is a compilation of the work that was done by that team and is meant to be a web portal for K-12 teachers to access resources for use in their classrooms. |
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Samples of Student Writing (From Appendix C)
These student writing samples have been annotated to illustrate the criteria required to meet the Common Core State Standards for particular types of writing—argument, informative/explanatory text, and narrative—in a given grade. Some of the samples were written in class or as homework; others were written for on-demand assessments; still others were the result of sustained research projects. |
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Grades 6-8 |
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Instructional Strategies
The Common Core place more cognitive demand on students. Preparing students for the rigors of finding, synthesizing, and making meaning of information in the digital age will require shifts in instruction. Reading complex texts closely, writing, reflecting, speaking, and producing are vital to student success. The following activities help teachers across all content areas provide a framework for students to develop these skills. |
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Grades 9-12 |