Common Core State Standards
Trust Heinemann to help you meet and exceed Common Core State Standards
For more than three decades Heinemann has supported teachers as they refine their craft and adjust to the shifting educational landscape. In establishing new national principles and goals in education, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) promise to play a powerful role in shaping our teaching environment.
To help you find your way Heinemann offers:
Essays from master teachers
- Lucy Calkins explores how the reading workshop addresses the CCSS and how it can support smarter, not more, test prep (from the Units of Study for teaching Reading series)
- Lucy Calkins offers guidelines to help determine your school's particular pathway to implementing the Common Core in this special excerpt from Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement
- Steve Leinwand reflects on the CCSS for Mathematics and the long overdue shift of the foundation
- Karen Worth, Jeff Winokur, and Martha Heller Winokur consider the natural relationship between science and literacy and how it improves science learning and meets the CCSS
- Carol Jago explains why the Common Core Standards for Reading Literature require grade 6–12 students to read complex texts (from With Rigor for All, Second Edition.)
- Tom Newkirk calls for our profession to apply vigilance and engagement in a careful "translation" of the CCSS publisher guidelines in his opinion piece "The Text Itself"
- Tom Newkirk talks back to the Common Core in this online-only postscript to Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones
- Gretchen Owocki sets a course to maximize the potential of the CCSS by focusing on meaningful teaching and learning in "Considering the Crossroads"
Sample chapters to related books and materials
- Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman's Pathways to the Common Core
- Steven Zemelman, Harvey "Smokey" Daniels, and Arthur Hyde's Best Practice, Fourth Edition
- Kylene Beers and Robert Probst's Notice & Note
- Gretchen Owocki's Common Core Lesson Book
- Steven Leinwand's Sensible Mathematics, Second Edition
- Lester Laminack and Reba Wadsworth's Bullying Hurts
- Jim Burke's English Teacher's Companion, Fourth Edition
- Leslie Blauman's Kid-Tested Writing Lessons
- Christopher Lehman's Energize Research Reading and Writing
- Jeffrey Wilhelm, Michael Smith, and James Fredricksen's Get It Done!
- Jeffrey Wilhelm, Michael Smith, and James Fredricksen's Oh, Yeah?!
- Jeffrey Wilhelm, Michael Smith, and James Fredricksen's So, What's the Story?
- Lucy Calkins and Colleagues' Curricular Plans for the Reading Workshop, K–8
- Lucy Calkins and Colleagues' Curricular Plans for the Writing Workshop, K–8
- George Hillocks, Jr's Teaching Argument Writing
- Carol Jago's With Rigor for All, Second Edition
- Peter Smagorinsky, Larry Johannessen, Elizabeth Kahn, and Thomas McCann's
Teaching Students to Write Essays That Define, 6–12 - Peter Smagorinsky, Larry Johannessen, Elizabeth Kahn, and Thomas McCann's
Teaching Students to Write Argument, 6–12 - Peter Smagorinsky, Larry Johannessen, Elizabeth Kahn, and Thomas McCann's Teaching Students to Write Research Reports, 6–12
- Peter Smagorinsky, Larry Johannessen, Elizabeth Kahn, and Thomas McCann's Teaching Students to Write Comparison/Contrast Essays, 6–12
- Peter Smagorinsky, Larry Johannessen, Elizabeth Kahn, and Thomas McCann's Teaching Students to Write Personal Narratives, 6–12
- Peter Smagorinsky, Larry Johannessen, Elizabeth Kahn, and Thomas McCann's Teaching Students to Write Fictional Narratives, 6–12
Correlations and crosswalks to instructional resources
- A correlation to Heinemann Professional Books and Resources
- Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell's The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades PreK–8: A Guide to Teaching
- Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis' The Primary Comprehension Toolkit, K–2
- Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis' The Comprehension Toolkit, 3–6
- Linda Hoyt and Tony Stead's Explorations in Nonfiction Writing, K–2
- Cathy Twomey Fosnot and Colleagues' Contexts for Learning Mathematics, K–6
- Regie Routman's RRIR:Transforming our Teaching Through Reading/Writing Connections, K-6
- Regie Routman's RRIR: Transforming our Teaching Through Reading to Understand, K-6
- Regie Routmans's RRIR: Transforming our Teaching Through Writing for Audience and Purpose, K-6
