What is Common Core?

What is Common Core?

What is Common Core?

The Common Core Standards can be confusing, frustrating, and stressful for teachers, parents, and even the kids. Nearly every state in the country is adopting the common core standards in one fashion or another, but what is common core really?

Common Core is a set of standards designed to make sure that students are receiving a similar education no matter where they live. Previously, certain skills might be taught in one state at different grade level than in another. Students who move from city to city, county to county, or state to state might all be at very different levels because of what was taught and when it was taught! This made for a very uneven testing field.

To combat this, most every state has adapted a common group of core skills that students should learn at age and developmentally-appropriate grade levels. So, a student that lives in one state should be learning similar materials, if perhaps in a different method, than one living in another state. This still leaves room for teacher creativity and regional differences, but the same basic concepts are taught universally.

Read below for more specific details on what standards are being taught at each grade level and how they are organized.

 

Common Core English Language Arts

Common Core English Language Arts

There are 6 Domains for the Common Core English and Language Arts. Each Domain has many standards for each grade level. These Domains are:

  1. Reading: Literature 
  2. Reading: Informational Text
  3. Reading: Foundational Skills
  4. Writing
  5. Speaking and Listening
  6. Language

There are 6 Domains for the Common Core Math. Each Domain has many standards for each grade level. These Domains are:

  1. Counting and Cardinality
  2. Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  3. Number and Operations in Base Ten
  4. Number and Operations – Fractions
  5. Measurement and Data
  6. Geometry

Each Grade Level has specific Common Core Standards for Math and English Language Arts that students must learn throughout the school year. In other words, the Common Core is basically, “What your students should learn by the end of the school year.” Use these links to learn more about your child’s Grade Level Common Core Standards in Math and English: Kindergarten Standards, First Grade Standards, Second Grade Standards, Third Grade Standards, Fourth Grade Standards, Fifth Grade Standards.

Common Core Workbooks

Common Core Workbooks

What is Common Core?

Common Core Curriculum

The Common Core  English Standards can be confusing, frustrating, and stressful for teachers, parents, and even the kids. With states now implementing the Common Core English into their classrooms, it is important that we face this challenge head on and prepare our kids effectively to succeed. Keep reading to learn more about the Common Core English Standards and how you can use the Common Core to help your child succeed in school.

 

Common Core English Language Arts              Common Core English Language Arts

There are 6 Domains for the Common Core English and Language Arts. Each Domain has many standards for each grade level. These Domains are:

  1. Reading: Literature 
  2. Reading: Informational Text
  3. Reading: Foundational Skills
  4. Writing
  5. Speaking and Listening
  6. Language

There are 6 Domains for the Common Core Math. Each Domain has many standards for each grade level. These Domains are:

  1. Counting and Cardinality
  2. Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  3. Number and Operations in Base Ten
  4. Number and Operations – Fractions
  5. Measurement and Data
  6. Geometry

Each Grade Level has specific Common Core Standards for Math and English Language Arts that students must learn throughout the school year. In other words, the Common Core is basically, “What your students should learn by the end of the school year.” Use these links to learn more about your child’s Grade Level Common Core Standards in Math and English: Kindergarten Standards, First Grade Standards, Second Grade Standards, Third Grade Standards, Fourth Grade Standards, Fifth Grade Standards.

Common Core Workbooks

Common Core Workbooks

Common Core English

Common Core English

The Common Core  English Standards can be confusing, frustrating, and stressful for teachers, parents, and even the kids. With states now implementing the Common Core English into their classrooms, it is important that we face this challenge head on and prepare our kids effectively to succeed. Keep reading to learn more about the Common Core English Standards and how you can use the Common Core to help your child succeed in school.

Common Core English Language Arts

Common Core English

There are 6 Domains for the Common Core English and Language Arts. Each Domain has many standards for each grade level. These Domains are:

  1. Reading: Literature 
  2. Reading: Informational Text
  3. Reading: Foundational Skills
  4. Writing
  5. Speaking and Listening
  6. Language

Each Grade Level has specific Common Core Standards for Math and English Language Arts that students must learn throughout the school year. In other words, the Common Core is basically, “What your students should learn by the end of the school year.” Use these links to learn more about your child’s Grade Level Common Core Standards in Math and English: Kindergarten Standards, First Grade Standards, Second Grade Standards, Third Grade Standards, Fourth Grade Standards, Fifth Grade Standards.

Common Core Workbooks

Common Core Workbooks

Free Common Core Worksheets

Wondering what all this common core fuss is about? Lots of textbook makers are quickly cranking out new versions of their textbooks to include little snippets of common core. What about us? Well, we’ve created 6 grade level appropriate workbooks, 500-900 pages each, covering each of the standards for that grade level in math and language. Each book has several activities and worksheets per standard, many of them reusable resources that you will be using for years!

Check out our free samples below!

Free Common Core Activities

Kindergarten Sample: https://www.corecommonstandards.com/core-standards/kindergarten-common-core-workbook-sample.pdf

First Grade Sample: https://www.corecommonstandards.com/core-standards/first-grade-common-core-workbook-sample.pdf

Second Grade Sample: https://www.corecommonstandards.com/core-standards/second-grade-common-core-workbook-sample.pdf

Third Grade Sample: https://www.corecommonstandards.com/core-standards/third-grade-common-core-workbook-sample.pdf

Fourth Grade Sample: https://www.corecommonstandards.com/core-standards/fourth-grade-common-core-workbook-sample.pdf

Fifth Grade Sample: https://www.corecommonstandards.com/core-standards/fifth-grade-common-core-workbook-sample.pdf

 

Free Common Core Activities

Nervous about common core? Wonder what it’s all about? Just need some free samples to get you started? Our common core workbooks are 550-900 pages each, depending on the grade level. EVERY math and EVERY language standards is covered within, and grade level activities and worksheets have been developed for each standard. There is no larger resource available for the common core standards. Don’t take my word for it, check out our free samples!

Free Common Core Activities

Kindergarten Sample: https://www.corecommonstandards.com/core-standards/kindergarten-common-core-workbook-sample.pdf

First Grade Sample: https://www.corecommonstandards.com/core-standards/first-grade-common-core-workbook-sample.pdf

Second Grade Sample: https://www.corecommonstandards.com/core-standards/second-grade-common-core-workbook-sample.pdf

Third Grade Sample: https://www.corecommonstandards.com/core-standards/third-grade-common-core-workbook-sample.pdf

Fourth Grade Sample: https://www.corecommonstandards.com/core-standards/fourth-grade-common-core-workbook-sample.pdf

Fifth Grade Sample: https://www.corecommonstandards.com/core-standards/fifth-grade-common-core-workbook-sample.pdf