Communities: Common Core Lessons & Activities

Common Core

by Carole Marsh

How to Use the Communities - 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 Communities - Common Core Lessons and Activities book
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 Communities - Common Core Lessons and Activities
What Is a Community?: Reading Informational Text
Land, Water, and Reading Informational Text
Mapping a Map Activity
Rules and Reading Informational Text
Personal & Civic Graphical Analysis G
Get Involved!: Comparison of Primary Sources G
Helping in Your Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Community Influential People G
Community Vocabulary GO10
Your Local History Chronological Events G
A Human Primary Source Analysis
Types of Graphical Analysis
The Changing Comparison of Primary Sources
Communities & the Reading Informational Text
Timber!: Primary Source Analysis
Protecting the Main Idea Organizer GO4
Communities of Reading Informational Text
The Chinese New Reading Informational Text
Global Data Analysis
Common Core State Standards Correlations

Includes Graphic Organizers

24 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 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.