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Monday, June 27, 2011

Common Core Standards

Dusting off the blog to ask for help! In my district/state kindergarten is starting the switch from state standards to the common core next year. We use Harcourt Storytown for our reading curriculum and it is aligned to our state standards. Now, I am faced with the task of converting all of the lessons from our state standards to the common core to use in my lesson plans! I did receive a packet of page numbers from Harcourt that align with the common core standards but that is not the way I am required to keep lesson plans and it is not teacher friendly at all. I have googled my eyes out looking for others that have already converted their lessons to the common core. I really don't want to reinvent the wheel! Any one out there know where I can get my hands on the lessons from Harcourt Storytown aligned with the Common Core?????
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16 comments:

  1. JanineJune 27, 2011 at 9:06 PM

    My district told us today that they are giving us a crosswalk for our reading series to correlate with the common core, but we use houghton mifflin...

    Faithful in First

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  2. ChristyJune 30, 2011 at 9:25 PM

    I feel your pain! I served on our district math committee to correlate our Next Generation Sunshine State Standards to the new CCSS. It took us two days, and that was nine people. I know that we will get a correlation from our reading department, but we use SRA OpenCourt. Sorry I can't help. :(

    www.kinderramblings.blogspot.com

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  3. RachelleJuly 6, 2011 at 12:41 AM

    Hello! My district has actually already made lessons and units for the common core, but they aren't for your reading series....they are pretty awesome though and you can find everything here:

    http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/cbl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=116&Itemid=34

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  4. RachelleJuly 6, 2011 at 12:41 AM

    Oh...that was for 1st grade and you teach kinder? Here is kinder:

    http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/cbl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=115&Itemid=34

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  5. BarbaraJuly 10, 2011 at 3:32 AM

    I teach in a Core Knowledge School in Mesa AZ and on the Core site they now have CCSS and Core Knowledge Standards allied...It is by grade level and a great guide..don't know if that helps??? Where are you located?

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    1. Sarah T.November 29, 2012 at 4:55 PM

      Barbara, I am also in the same boat. i need to convert my 4th Grade Story town to CCSS. Please send me some resources to assist me, we are kind of on our own but we are required to put it into our lessons.
      srh_tunney@yahoo.com

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  6. LuanneJuly 11, 2011 at 9:37 AM

    Thanks! I am in Florida. I am just trying to save myself hours of work - my district asks that we record the CCSS with every element of the reading program. It was easy before since Harcourt has our old standards printed in the teachers manual. But now I have to convert each element from our old standards to the new CCSS. Once my kindergarten team finishes converting all 5 teacher books we should sell it back to Harcourt!

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    1. AnonymousJanuary 7, 2013 at 12:36 PM

      Amen! We are doing the same thing in our district!!!

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  7. AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 12:26 PM

    I am doing the same for my school. I teach with this curriculum also. I have the crosswalk for the Harcourt "Go Math!" series already if you need it. I will share as I do mine if you like-if you find an easy resource PLEASE share with me by posting here!
    Michelle in Panama City

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  8. AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 12:05 PM

    I know this was posted last year but we are working on this right now and it is taking forever. We were wondering if you ever had this done. My email is is kalipari@stmary.k12.la.us if you have anything you can share with us!

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  9. Jennifer MorrowAugust 23, 2012 at 11:13 PM

    Hey guys, still working on this? They have a crosswalk out now if you're interested. We're trying to get our school to buy one for each grade rather than US do all the work.... We'd rather spend our time actually teaching!!! Let me know if anyone has seen this and it's useful...Everyday Math has theirs online, and anyone who has adopted it can see it free. C'mon Storytown!
    http://www.hmhschool.com/store/ProductCatalogController?cmd=Browse&subcmd=LoadDetail&ID=1007500000080991&level1Code=1&frontOrBack=F&sortEntriesBy=SEQ&division=S01

    morrowj@mannford.k12.ok.us

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  10. AnonymousAugust 26, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    Very disappointed with StoryTown.
    Saxon Math sent guides that included Common Cores standards for evey lesson. This should be included for free since we buy their series.

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  11. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2012 at 2:21 AM

    So I am a little late, but I found this helpful for Storytown:
    http://www.slcschools.org/departments/curriculum/language-arts/documents/Kindergarten-Correlation_2011-05-09.pdf
    We are doing the same at our school and have been looking for this for the last month!

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  13. UnknownSeptember 17, 2014 at 9:20 AM

    You just saved me WEEKS of planning...
    I'm a SEN teacher (KG1-Gr5) and have been looking for something like this and I just want to cry of joy for "founding" you...
    Thank you so very much for sharing your hard work with us.

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