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 * COMMON CORE RESOURCES: (HOME PAGE) **

[|New Jersey Department of Education Website] Common Core Standards Model Curriculum PARCC (Partnership of Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) [|PARCH Blueprints and Test Specs] [|ELA/ Literacy Samples]

[|New Jersey Common Core Content Standards] [|CCSS] [|Common Core Appendix B]

[|The Bridge:] Mon thly Newsletter Update on Education in NJ from the NJDOE

[|Next Generation Science Standards]

[|Partnership for 21st Century Skills]

[|Common Core Resources from Hofstra University:] includes text exemplar

[|Achieve the Core:] Free resources for implementing CCSS

[|ASCD Resource: EduCore] - Resources for transitioning to CCSS from ACSC

[|America Achieves:] Includes lesson plans, links to websites, videos of lessons discussed by teachers, information on assessing the quality of resources

[|Common Core Shifts:] Describes the six shifts in ELA/Literacy and Math. Breaks down each shift separately and indicates what the student, teacher, and principal does.

[|Common Curriculum:] Free online resource for creating lesson plans and for creating class websites. Simple, easy to use and aligns lessons to Common Core Standards. Also, has ability to add files and website links to lesson plans. Additionally, has built-in blogging features

[|Next Generation Science Standards]

[|Essay Tagger:] Create a rubric aligned to the CCSS and then use Essay Tagger to save time grading essays. This is not an auto-grader. No file management required. Builds your roster as students turn in their work. Works with Google Drive and even tablets.
 * LITERACY AND LESSONS: **

[|LearnZillion:] Free lesson plans built from the CCSS (may take a while to load)

[|Reading Analyzer] (ATOS)

[|Reading Analyzer] (LEXILE)

[|NCLE Report - Remodeling Literacy]

[|Nonfiction and the Common Core]: blog with ideas for nonfiction as well as nonfiction award list


 * INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY: **

[|Innovations in Education:] Source for integrating technology into the curriculum and CCSS

[|Educational Technology and Mobile Learning:] AWESOME resource for mobile apps and web tools- Check it out! Good idea to go to home page and sign up for RSS feed.