Common Core State Standards - Mission Literacy provides extensive resources for implementing the common core from a State of Michigan standpoint.

Common Core Resources from Oakland Schools

Oakland County Common Core State Initiatives    

Common Core Appendix A:  Glossary of key terms  

Common Core Appendix A Supplement  

Text Complexity:  Qualitative Measures Rubric for Informational Text  

Text Complexity:  Qualitative Measures Rubric for Literary Text  

Text Complexity:  Reader and Task Considerations  

Webbs Depth of Knowledge Levels Chart  

Depth of Knowledge Flyer/Room Poster  

Library of Congress : Extensive database of Common Core Resources that provide lesson plans, professional development ideas and tasks, the ability to search by Common Core Standard and much more.  

Common Core Reference Collection : Common Core implementation plans, transition guides, assessment tasks, exemplars and curriculum, indexed from across the U.S.  

Common Core Aligned Resources : K-12 resources aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Add your resource quality ratings and comments.

What are the shifts:

Common Core Portals

• ASCD's Common Core Resources
• Common Core State Standards Initiative
• Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)
• Achieve
• SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)
• K-12 Center for Assessment and Performance Management at Educational Testing Service (ETS)
• ELA Common CoreResources - LiveBinder
• Vicki Davis 50 Teaching and Lesson Plans that Rock Common Core Aligned
• BSHS Common Core Wiki
• Template Tasks
• Writing in Science
• History Websites with the Common Core
• California History Social Studies Project:  teaching common core with primary sources lessons and other great resources for teachers.

Web 2.0 and digital resources that can help with implementation of the Common Core

Collaborize Classroom - Collaborize Classroom® allows teachers to extend their classroom discussions to a structured and private online community.

The  SCAN tool  found at  TregoED  is another simple tool that requires minimal set up and implementation in the classroom.  Scan features a library full of scenarios that include four different points of view. Students go to a private url to participate in a guided online discussion following the four steps of SCAN (Stop and think - what are the issues?, Clarify the issues, Ask what's most important, and Now, what should be done). Along the way, students are asked to support their claims, acknowledge other points of view, and collaborate to solve the problem. This is precisely what the common core is asking us to teach our students. SCAN offers free timely lessons for teachers in all content areas. With a cheap subscription ($45/teacher/year - unlimited use) teachers can write their own lessons to address particular needs of their students or curriculum.  

Teaching Argument Writing - This Language Arts Teacher created an awesome blog on how to teach argument writing using various digital resources.