Common Core Standards: Instructional Resources

CLOSE READING AND CROSS-TEXT ANALYSIS

Build cross-text analysis skills with genre and content texts linked to matching play adaptations.

• Read more about Cross-Text Sets, Grades 1-6.

Standards-based theme sets provide four types of books, including innovative Opinion books, to develop close reading, cross-text analysis, and text-based comprehension.

• Read more about Text Connections, Grades K-2.

Introduce close reading, traditional genres, and cross-text analysis to young readers through engaging, beloved classics.

• Read more about Classic Tales, Grades K-2.

GENRE STUDIES

Engaging Big Books help young students understand and create the 3 key text types emphasized in the Common Core Standards: Informational, Narrative, and Opinion.

• Read more about My First Genre Big Books, Grades K-1.

Teach genres, literary analysis, and the writer's craft with differentiated leveled texts.

• Read more about Readers' & Writers' Genre Workshops, Grades 3-8+.

Enrich literature study with play adaptations based on traditional genres from state and Common Core Standards.

• Read more about Reader's Theater: Folktales, Myths, and Legends, Grades 1-6.

Read an original classic, perform the play adaptation, then analyze both for deeper understanding.

• Read more about Reader's Theater: Classics, Grades 5-8+.

INFORMATIONAL TEXT

Develop the ability to read informational text and understand content-area concepts. Engage students with real-world topics and photographs.

• Read more about Content Connections Big Books, Grades K-2.

Rebalance your BookRooms to meet the 50% nonfiction/50% fiction mix prescribed by new common core state standards.

• Read more about Informational Text Sets, Grades K-5.

WRITING

Ready-to-use tools, explicit mini-lessons, and detailed support help you implement a workshop model that teaches students to write informational, opinion, and narrative prose.

• Read more about Benchmark Writer's Workshop, Grades K-6.

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

StartUp, BuildUp, and SpiralUp Phonics Skill Bag Kits are a proven solution to teaching phonics in an intervention or small-group classroom setting. Ready-to-use Skill Bags include all you need to teach ONE skill in each bag.

• Read more about Phonics Skill Bags for Intervention or Classroom Use, Grades K-6.

Extend the learning with 128 Skill Bags that build word study skills to improve spelling, reading, and vocabulary. Each of 4 Word Study Kits includes a full year of sequential or targeted instruction.

• Read more about Word Study & Vocabulary Skill Bags, Grades 3-8+.

PLAYing with words helps improve language arts proficiency and strengthen foundational skills.

• Read more about Reader's Theater: Word Plays, Grades 3-6.