Communities – Common Core Lessons and Activities

Common Core

by Carole Marsh

How to Use the Communities - Common Core Lessons and ActivitiesWork 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!Click to view sample pages from this book.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.To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click .Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.The Communities - Common Core Lessons and Activities bookReading for InformationHigher-Order ThinkingWriting ProblemsPrimary Source AnalysisVocabularyGraphic OrganizersMap Activities& More!Here is the Table of Contents for the Communities - Common Core Lessons and ActivitiesWhat Is a Community?: Reading Informational TextLand, Water, and Reading Informational TextMapping a Map ActivityRules and Reading Informational TextPersonal & Civic Graphical Analysis GGet Involved!: Comparison of Primary Sources GHelping in Your Problem-Solution-Results GO9Community Influential People GCommunity Vocabulary GO10Your Local History Chronological Events GA Human Primary Source AnalysisTypes of Graphical AnalysisThe Changing Comparison of Primary SourcesCommunities & the Reading Informational TextTimber!: Primary Source AnalysisProtecting the Main Idea Organizer GO4Communities of Reading Informational TextThe Chinese New Reading Informational TextGlobal Data AnalysisCommon Core State Standards CorrelationsIncludes Graphic OrganizerGraphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download .(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)

24 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 1, 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.