Landforms

Common Core

by Carole Marsh

You are purchasing the paperback version of this book. The Landforms Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Landforms - Common Core Lessons and Activities
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!


Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Landforms - Common Core Lessons and Activities Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Landforms - Common Core Lessons and Activities

What Are Landforms?: Reading Informational Text
Continents & Classifying Information GO4
Bumps and Reading Informational Text
Research & Presentation G
Describing Main Idea
Describe It!: Compare & Contrast G7
Landform Regions of North Classifying Information
Earth s Moving Concepts & Processes GO5
The Landform Graphic Organizer G

Landforms Created & Classifying Information Mesas & Ordering Events
Save the Beach!: Primary Source Analysis
Reading Informational Text
In the Interpreting Visual Information
Fault Lines & Comparison of Sources
Human Activity & Cause & Effect GO5
Land & Water Vocabulary
Common Core Correlation

Includes Graphic Organizers

24 pages, Paperback

Published December 20, 2013

About the author

Carole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children’s book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia.

In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.