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The Maps

The Maps are a coherent sequence of thematic units, roughly six per grade level, K–12. Common Core’s Maps connect the skills delineated in the CCSS in ELA with suggested works of literature and informational texts and provide sample activities that teachers can use in their classrooms. Each map includes an overview, essential question, focus standards selected from the CCSS, suggested texts and art or music, sample activities, links to additional resources, a list of terminology, and a standards checklist. Our K-2 maps also include a pacing guide for the teaching of reading foundations and ideas for making “interdisciplinary connections” to topics outside ELA. Read more about the components of our Maps.

Grade 2, Unit 1

spacer A Season for Chapters: In this first six-week unit of second grade, students focus on the beauty of language—in chapter books, informational texts, and poetry—all related to the four seasons.

Grade 2, Unit 1

Grade 5, Unit 3

spacer Clues to a Culture: This six-week unit focuses on aspects of Native American nations/cultures as revealed through paring of literature and informational text.

Grade 5, Unit 3

Sample Lesson Plans

One unit in each grade is accompanied by a sample lesson plan that outlines how a teacher might translate our curriculum in to a sequence of lessons. These sample lessons illustrate how to use one or more of the suggested texts to meet particular standards. In most cases the texts in the lessons are CCSS exemplar texts. The sample lessons also include an exemplar of a daily lesson plan detailing the objectives, required materials, step-by-step activities, and guidance for differentiated instruction.

Sample Lesson Plan: Grade 1

spacer The following sample lesson accompanies unit three of first grade. In this six-week unit students read literature and informational texts related to life lessons.

Sample Lesson Plan

Sample Lesson Plan: Grade 11

spacer The following sample lesson accompanies unit one of eleventh grade. The four-week unit allows students to experience the earliest American literature and note the contemporary endurance of some of its themes.

Sample Lesson Plan

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