1. COMMON CORE Standards and Strategies Flip Chart
Overview of CCS
Flip Chart Introduction
Benefits
Layout and Organization
Suggestions for Use

2. What are the Common Core Standards?
The Common Core Standards define the rigorous skills and knowledge in English Language Arts and Mathematics that K-12 students need to master. These standards are based on College and Career Readiness Standards and are intended to prepare students to become competitive in the global marketplace.

3. What guidelines were followed in the development of the CCS?
The Standards must:
Be focused and coherent
Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills
Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards
Be internationally benchmarked so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society
Be based on evidence and research

4. Why are the Common Core Standards important?
Currently, students in each state are learning at different levels and with different expectations.
All students must be prepared to compete with not only their American peers in the next state, but with students from around the world.

5. Why should the Common Core Standards be taught?
American students are falling behind academically when compared to students from other countries.
International comparisons show that:
In 2003, the United States ranked 15th in Reading.
In 2003, the United States ranked 24th in problem solving.
In 2006, the United States ranked 25th in Mathematics.
In 2006, the United States ranked 21st in Science .

6. Why should the Common Core Standards be taught?
Teaching the Standards ensures that American students receive a world-class education that prepares them with the skills and knowledge to compete in the 21st century.
The Standards are aligned to the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards and therefore prepare students to enter college or the workplace.

7. What is the Common Core Standards and Strategies Flip Chart?
The Common Core Standards and Strategies Flip Chart is a resource that offers information and strategies to effectively implement the Common Core Standards (CCS).

8. The Common Core Standards and Strategies Flip Chart:
What are the benefits of using the Common Core Standards and Strategies Flip Chart?
The Common Core Standards and Strategies Flip Chart:
Offers a practical guide for implementation of the Standards
Presents an easy-to-use reference for the CCS
Develops, within educators, an understanding of the knowledge and skills students need to be successful in Mathematics and English Language Arts

9. What are the benefits of using the Common Core Standards and Strategies Flip Chart?
Provides a portrait of what students should know and be able to do at the college and career readiness level
Includes teaching and learning strategies to achieve mastery of the Common Core Standards
Offers effective instructional strategies for addressing all learners

10. What are the benefits of using the Common Core Standards and Strategies Flip Chart?
Serves as a resource for best practices for teaching, learning, and assessment
Supports curriculum writing, planning, and professional development
Builds a common language associated with the Common Core Standards
Offers questioning stems and a framework for developing higher-order thinking skills

11. Layout and Organization
Easy-to-use flip chart format
16-tabbed sections for locating information quickly
Compact tool for planning high-quality instruction

12. Layout and Organization
Provides an introduction for each tabbed section
Contains bulleted information for easy reference

13. Layout and Organization
Contains effective strategies for:
Using the Flip Chart
Classroom Management
Accommodations
Student Motivation
UDL
Diverse Learners
Assessments
Response to Intervention

14. Layout and Organization
The CCS for Mathematics and the CCS for English Language Arts sections include:
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards
Common Core Standards

15. Layout and Organization
The CCS for Mathematics
and the CCS for English Language Arts Elementary
level charts also include Clarifying Activities for
each standard.

16. Layout and Organization
The vocabulary section includes strategies for teaching vocabulary as well as Mathematics and English Language Arts terms that students need to know to be successful in those subjects.

17. Layout and Organization
The Higher-Order Thinking Skills tab includes a questioning framework and prompts at each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

18. Layout and Organization
Features a Differentiated Instruction checklist on the back of the chart

19. Elementary Flip Charts
Available for:
Kindergarten
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5

20. Secondary Flip Charts Available for: Grades 6-8 Mathematics
Grades 6-8 English Language Arts
Grades 9-12 English Language Arts

21. Comprehensive Standards Flip Charts
Available for:
Grades K-12 Mathematics
Grades K-12 English Language Arts
Grades K-5 Math and English Language Arts

22. Suggestions for Use Use the Common Core Standards and Strategies
Flip Chart to:
Become familiar with the Standards and how they are intended to be implemented
Plan and deliver standards-based instruction for English Language Arts and Mathematics

23. Suggestions for Use
Develop an understanding of the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards
Acquire a deep understanding of the key terms pertinent to the Common Core Standards
Identify strategies essential for delivering high-quality instruction

24. Suggestions for Use
Identify appropriate assessment strategies and tools to adjust instruction and improve student learning
Implement Universal Design for Learning (UDL) strategies that provide all students equitable opportunities to learn and a variety of ways to demonstrate learning

25. Suggestions for Use Incorporate questioning prompts and
wait-and-think-time strategies to build
higher-order thinking skills
Identify appropriate accommodations to support student learning
Evaluate and improve the use of differentiated instruction in the classroom

26. Suggestions for Use
Select appropriate strategies to address the needs of diverse learners
Support curriculum writing and planning
Vertically align instruction in order to prevent or close gaps in student learning

27. The Promise of the Standards
These Standards are not intended to be new names for old ways of doing business. They are a call to take the next step. It is time for states to work together to build on lessons learned from two decades of standards based reforms. It is time to recognize that standards are not just promises to our children, but promises we intend to keep.
Taken from the Common Core State Standards Initiative website at

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