Common Core Standards and Scope and Sequence

Common Core Standards

and creating a Scope and Sequence

What will we teach?

-Topics, published

curriculum

When will we teach it?

-how many days/

weeks/months?

-pacing of units and

lessons

How does it connect to

the standards?

What will we use to

teach this?

-Resources, materials

How will we assess

learning? How will we

use our assessments to

drive future planning?

NY State Standards and the

Common Core Standards

Standards

What are the Common

Core Standards?

Aligning NYS Standards and CCS

and moving toward the future

Power Standards

Power standards are...

-gateways or building blocks for many other skills

-skills that are essential for college/workforce readiness

-skills that are frequently tested

Example: An understanding of place value helps us understand rounding, money, addition, and subtraction.

Why create a Scope and Sequence for our curriculum?

-to integrate all the elements of curriculum planning

in one place, for each subject, across the school year.

One possible order for this process:

Resources

and Helpful Links

What do we

think about

when we

plan curriculum?

Standards are meant to guide curriculum and provide guidelines for the type and breadth of knowledge and understanding children should gain by certain ages and grades. Standards have historically been created by state governments.

The Common Core Standards Initiative is a state-led initiative to make goals and expectations clear and shared across the nation.

is here

Mathematics

English Language Arts

-greater numeracy focus in Kindergarten (skip counting by 10s and 5s, base ten and base 5, higher counting). Time also eliminated.

-focus on foundational skills in elementary ages (such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals) as preparation for higher mathematics concept

-heavier focus on conceptual understanding rather than solely procedural skill (understanding the concept of multiplication rather than only understanding the multiplication algorithm)

-taking skills outlined in NYS Standards one step further

i.e.: NYS Standards require fourth graders to be able to round numbers to 100,000. CCS require fourth graders to round numbers to 100,000,000.

Reading:•

• -Greater focus on informational texts•
• More explicit in terms of genre specific standards (in imaginative texts/literature and informational texts)•
• -Includes more critical types of content such as stories from around the world, classic myths, foundational U.S. documents, writings of Shakespeare, etc.

Writing:•

• -Greater emphasis on opinion, research, and persuasive writing•
• -Focus on the requirements of writing in the workplace

Language:•

• -Greater focus on conventions and grammar•
• -Greater focus on growing vocabulary

Speaking and Listening•**(stressed by TCRWP)

• -“The standards require that students gain, evaluate, and present increasingly complex information, ideas, and evidence through listening and speaking as well as through media.” ·
• -“An important focus of the speaking and listening standards is academic discussion in one-on-one, small-group, and whole-class settings.”
• -Partnerships, book clubs, read alouds with accountable talk

An organization called PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) is creating a common set of K-12 assessments that will replace NYS standardized tests. These new nationwide assessments will use the Common Core Standards.

*There were embedded questions on the 2011-2012 assessments.

*On last year's assessment, all questions were aligned to the Common Core Standards.

The process of creating the Scope and Sequence

pacing and order

the big picture (breadth, range)

of your curriculum

Understanding the document:

3rd grade Scope and Sequence for Math

Concepts/skills to be assessed on end-of-unit assessments

Published curriculum

Standards

Skills block (3rd and 4th grade only)

Month

a. Begin with the Math Connects curriculum. Use this curriculum to create the initial sequence of units by topic.

Common Core

State Standards Initiative Website

http://www.corestandards.org/

b. Align monthly units from Math Connects

curriculum with the NYS Standards.

Italicized standards are Common Core Standards NOT included in the NYS Standards

The Common Core Standards:

downloadable PDFs

http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards

Power standards

-are bolded in the scope and sequence

-are very often the concepts assessed in the spiraled questions

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

and the Common Core: Units of Study and the CCS

http://tc.readingandwritingproject.com/resources/common-core-standards/units-of-study-and-the-ccs

c. Align this work with

the Common Core Standards.

f. Apply a "fit test" by checking to make sure that all standards"fit" within the instructional days of the year

When will you look at this? How will it

be useful?

*Turn and Talk to your partner

d. Add in additional curriculum resources to fill in holes in the main published curriculum (based on the standards) and enhance teaching to standards (additional math curriculum resources in K-2, skills resources in 3-4)

e. Plan and describe assessment concepts