Research Guides: Children's Literature: Common Core Standards

Databases

Some of the library's databases incorporate Common Core Standards - either tagging content according to standard or providing supplementary resources, such as lesson plans linked to Common Core Standards.

Britannica Library This link opens in a new window
Access to two homepages: Britannica Kids for children and young adults, and Britannica Reference Center for older students and adults.
Periodical articles display Lexile reading levels.
CultureGrams This link opens in a new window
Cultural reports on the countries of the world, US states and Canadian provinces. Supporting materials include a photo gallery, recipes, and biographies. You can view flags, maps, slideshows, national anthems, and video clips. (Grades 4-12.) (ProQuest)
Gale In Context: Global Issues This link opens in a new window
Offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and environmental and sustainability issues. (Grades K-College) (Gale)
Gale in Context: Elementary This link opens in a new window
100 full text curriculum-related magazines, newspaper and reference content. 25,000 images. (Grades K-5) (Gale)
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
More than 8,700 pro and con viewpoint articles and more than 4,700 topic overviews. This database contains lesson plans, links to state standards, links to websites, statistics, primary sources, and teacher resources. (Grades 6-13) (Gale)

Now users can take notes easily without opening a separate program. The "Highlights and Notes" tool allows you to select text from a document, highlight the important sections, add your own notes, and save to a new "Highlighted Articles" page. Within the same session, the highlighted sections can be easily viewed, printed, downloaded, or sent via email (no user account within the database is required). (Gale)
Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window
A full text database designed to provide a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current social issue. The database has more than 290 topics, each with an overview, point, counterpoint, and critical thinking guide. (Grades 6-12) (Ebsco)

What Are Common Core Standards

"The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. With American students fully prepared for the future, our communities will be best positioned to compete successfully in the global economy."

Common Core Standards

Common Core 360 - Blog
Common Core State Standards Initiative: A - Research Supporting Key Elements of the Standards / Glossary of Key Terms
English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Common Core State Standards: Printable Resources from Booklist Publications
Common Core States Standards Initiative
Common Core States Standards Initiative: B - Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks
English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Library of Congress: Common Core Standards
Search for Primary Source materials and lesson plans linked to Common Core Standards from the Library of Congress.
P21 Common Core Tookkit
A Guide to Aligning the Common Core State Standards with the Framework for 21st Century Skills
SCDOE Common Core Standards
Texts for proposed common core standards. Washinton Post, 3/10/210
A list of several dozen books and poems.

Tutorials

Using Britannica with the Common Core Standards (52:11) vimeo

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Books That Teach Common Core Standards

Common Core in Grades 4-6 by Sutton; Grabarek
Call Number: Z1037 .C66 2014
ISBN: 9781442236080
Publication Date: 2014-04-18
The Classroom Go-To Guide for the Common Core is the first in a series of comprehensive tools to tap into the vast flow of recently published books for children and teens, offering recommendations of exemplary titles for use in the classroom. Currency meets authority, brought to you by the editors of the highly regarded review sources, School Library Journal and The Horn Book Magazine. This guide includes approximately 200 selections published since 2007 for grades 4-6 recommended by The Horn Book Magazine. The titles are grouped by subject and complemented by School Library Journal s Focus On columns, which spotlight specific topics across the curriculum. Providing context for the guide, and suggestions on how to use these resources within a standards framework, is an introduction by Common Core experts Mary Ann Cappiello and Myra Zarnowski. These experts provide perspective on the key changes brought by the new standards, including suggestions on designing lessons and two samples plans. Following the introduction, you ll find a wealth of books, by category. Each section includes a listing of the top titles with brief, explicit annotations, and key bibliographic data. Focus On articles are appended to appropriate categories to support in-depth curricular development. Each of these articles includes a topic overview and list of current and retrospective resources (including some fiction), and multimedia, that will enable educators to respond to Common Core State Standards call to work across formats."

Children's Literature: Common Core Standards

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