Gearing+Up+for+Common+Core

ARKANSAS RESOURCES
Arkansas Department of Education CCSS Wiki - contains a step by step guide for the transition to CCSS. (Click on What Every Arkansas Educator needs to Know…… Then Click on the EXCEL VERSION – You will have to use the navigation tool at the bottom of the EXCEL file to navigate between pages.)

Arkansas Targeted Interim Assessment Project - On left margin, click on literacy or math guidelines.

Arkansas Frameworks

GENERAL RESOURCES
Common Core Information

Crosswalk of the Common Core Standards and the the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner - From the American Library Association.

NETS - you will have to scroll down to get to the 6-8 grade Profile for Technology Literate Students

Lexile Numbers

This chart contains the Lexile Ranges for Common Core reading - (it is a good idea to always check subject matter before purchasing - don't purchase on Lexile levels alone)
 * ** Grade **
 * Band ** || ** Current **
 * Lexile Band ** || ** "Stretch" **
 * Lexile Band ** ||
 * K–1 || N/A || N/A ||
 * 2–3 || 450L–725L || 450L–790L ||
 * 4–5 || 645L–845L || 770L–980L ||
 * 6–8 || 860L–1010L || 955L–1155L ||
 * 9-10 || 960L–1115L || 1080L–1305L ||
 * 11–CCR || 1070L–1220L || 1215L–1355L ||

New York City Department of Education Standards and Curriculum2

Common Core Presentation - just some other information....

**Here are some Common Core Resources: (sent through a listserv - I just copied and pasted onto this page)**
CommonCore.org has moved it’s First Edition curriculum maps to a new location, in favor of the Second Edition, for which they now charge. You can still find the original maps for free here: [] Download the ATOS-2000 scale converter here. [] [] []
 * 1) Links to Free First Edition Curriculum Maps from CommonCore.org
 * 1) Both Lexile and ATOS (Renaissance Learning’s or Accelerated Reader’s measure of readability) protest that you can’t compare the two reading levels because they are designed to measure slightly different things. Yet, ATOS provided me with this pdf that converts their scores to a 2000-based score which they say “roughly” translates to Lexile. In other words, if you know an ATOS rating, you can estimate the Lexile from this. Still, in practical terms, an internet search on the book’s title is likely to turn up both scores.
 * 1) The Common Core standards emphasize three criteria for evaluating a text: Quantitative (Lexile score), Qualitative and Reader/Task. Here is a one-page summary of the criteria that makes it easy to justify to administrators/teachers why a book is appropriate for a certain lesson. Download the Evaluating Texts for Common Core tool here.
 * 1) FAQ: List of Common Core Required Texts:

Mastery Connect - all the CCSS in one easy to use widget
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 * You can also download an app on most smartphones...do a search for common core standards...Mastery Education app has been recommended to download. **