The Ohio Resource Center offers free resources and lesson plans for teachers.  We are on the cusp of realigning ALL of these resources to be common core friendly, but in the meantime, I have pulled together a sample unit plan for 9-10 grade reading informational text. Using original materials created by ORC contributors, I realigned the original ...

This morning, I attended an Achieve 3000 webinar on ELA for the Common Core.  Below are the notes I took as the presentation went on–there was some repeated information (things I’ve already heard), but also a LOT of new stuff!  I draw your attention to these new bits of info with bolded, underlined, and/or italicized formatting.  I’ll post the PDF ...