Check out this FREE Common Core Math Guide that has specific examples for each standard, the learning objective (I Can Statement), and examples of assessment for mastery, emerging, and novice! Want a different grade? Here is what has been published so far Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Grades 6-8 Coming soon! Feel free to pin to help others find this FREE resource! *** This guide was compiled with Carl Jones, Karen Smith, and Virginia McClain *** Receive monthly tech tips, exclusive freebies and more sent directly to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter
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Wait no longer! 4th Grade is here! Check out this FREE Common Core Math Guide that has specific examples for each standard, the learning objective (I Can Statement), and examples of assessment for mastery, emerging, and novice! Want a different grade? Here is what has been published so far Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Grades 5-8 Coming soon! Feel free to pin to help others find this FREE resource! *** This guide was compiled with Carl Jones, Karen Smith, and Virginia McClain *** Receive monthly tech tips, exclusive freebies and more sent directly to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter
I seriously LOVE these guides! We worked so hard to be sure that the standards are presented in an easy to read, easy to understand and easy to use way. :-) The guide has the specific standards listed with the I Can Statement and has examples of assessments for mastery, emerging and novice learners.
Please share the goodness- pin this post, e-mail the link to this post, and tweet away! :-)
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The second grade math common core guide is ready!!! Kindergarten and First Grade have been released and grades 3-8 is coming soon! Check back for more. This guide has it all! The standards, I Can Statements, Examples, Assessment Guides. Best of all this is a free resource! Want the rest? Subscribe to the posts on the right hand side! Ready for even more goodies? Subscribe to our newsletter below! Receive monthly tech tips, exclusive freebies and more sent directly to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter
It's here! The First Grade Math Common Core Guide is here and ready for download! This guide breaks down the the learning standards in an easy to understand way. It has the learning standards, I Can Statements, Assessments (Mastery, Emerging, and Novice) and specific examples of what each standard means. Parents as well as teachers have loved these guides. :-) Stay tuned: Grades 2-8 coming in the next few days! Subscribe so you don't miss a single post!
**** This guide and the other grade level guides were created by myself, Karen Smith, Carl Jones, and Virginia McClain ****
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This guide to Math Common Core is sure to please all Kindergarten teachers. It features specific examples for each standard, a learning target (I Can Statement) for each standard AND an three examples of assessment for every standard. Did I mention that this is a FREE guide?
Feel free to share the link to this post with all of your favorite Kindergarten teachers and parents! This is the first post in an upcoming series of posts for each grade level! Check back for more, or better yet subscribe, follow, and share! Have a great day!
**** This guide and the other grade level guides were created by myself, Karen Smith, Carl Jones, and Virginia McClain ****
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Technology has the power to take a mediocre lesson and make it jaw dropping. To take an uninterested student and get them involved and excited. Technology can change EVERYTHING. However, it is so important for us to keep the focus on the learning, on the engagement, on the skills and the take away. We need to only incorporate technology where it enhances the learning, when it breaks down barriers and takes learning to a new level. We do not want to have the focus of any lesson to be the use of technology. If you objective for the day is to "make a Prezi" you are sadly missing the boat. We need to focus on the learning at hand and look at ways where the technology can bring your teaching to life.
Better Lessons- Common Core: National Education Association
The College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing
The Production and Distribution of Writing
K-5
6. Use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others
6-12
6. Use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others
When I read this statement the tool that stands out (actually, it is more like standing on the roof top yelling its name!) is Google Apps for Education, Google Docs in particular. Google Docs allows you to collaborate with up to 50 people at one time and share your document with up to 200 other collaborators. When you share you can designate if you are giving editing rights, commenting rights, or just viewing rights. This tool is in the cloud and is a free. That means that as long as you have the internet, you are seeing the same thing as all of your classmates- as Google always gives you the latest version of the software. It evens the playing field between your wealthiest student and your poorest student. Google Docs keeps track of every single revision made on the documents- so you can look back at any time and see who contributed, what they wrote, and at what time. You are also able to restore the document at any time. AMAZING!
With the integration of Google Hangouts, you can "hangout" with up to 9 different people and work on the same document from 9 different locations all while seeing their face and hearing their voices.
Check out these links for more information on Google Apps for Education. But keep in mind, it isn't the tool that we need to focus on, it is the learning, the collaboration and the empowerment that matters.
Level It Books- Scan the barcode of the book and you will be given the Lexile score among other information
iBooks- Great source of digital text, particularly books in the Gutenberg Project. You are able to book mark, highlight, add notes, find specific words, change text size, have words read aloud and define words.
Khan Academy- Thousands of video tutorials explaining mathematical concepts and practice problems available to support students in developing their understanding of math.
INFOhio Common Core Toolkit- Tools outlined here require a password that is available to every public school student and teacher in Ohio. Contact your technology coordinator or librarian for the password.
Watch, Know, Learn. Videos from all over the web compiled in one place. The videos are teacher approved and rated then compiled and sorted by grade level and common core standard. AMAZING! They also have videos for many of the text exemplars!
It's Monday and that means freebies! Wahoo! One of my favorites. :-) This weeks freebie is something every parent and teacher needs!
Preparing for the Common Core is a huge task as any teacher can tell you. Sometimes, even understanding what the standards are trying to say can be a big problem. In collaboration with several others we have created 9 different math common core guides. These guides would be a great resource for parents to understand what is being asked, what developing, proficient, and advanced skills look like. You can grab all of these at MrsFullenkamp.com on the Common Core Resource Page or by clicking the links below.
If you are anything like me, you are a little bit panicky about this whole common core thing! ;-) I've been trying to add all of the quality resources that I have found to one central location. I haven't really added anything with people selling stuff because there is nothing worse than finding something amazing and then realizing that it costs more than you make in a week. :-) I know it is a necessary evil, but see what you can get for free before you buy lots of things! Check out these resources and let me know the ones that I need to add!
Have you heard of WatchKnowLearn.org? This site takes all of the video content online and then breaks it down for the classroom. They have all of their videos divided into 16 categories including math, science, language arts, history, social studies, computers and technology and many more.
In each of these categories they are broken down further into ten different categories. For example, I click math and then it is broken down into 12 different categories including everything from addition, money, measurement to calculus and the history of money. Once I clicked on measurement, I went to time, and then telling time to the quarter hour there are 4 reviewed videos that are rated by teachers and ready for the classroom.
Today when I went there was an AWESOME update. They now have classrooms for each grade level. I went to the first grade classroom and they have all of their videos aligned to the Common Core. Let me say that again. ALL OF THEIR VIDEOS ARE ALIGNED TO THE COMMON CORE! Are you serious!?!? Now you can go in there and search for all of the text exemplar videos that are teacher rated and ready for use. Think about how much time that will save you!
You can find this and other common core resources on my website here. Do you have any other free resources that I should include?
