1. Core Curriculum Patti McClimans, M.Ed.

2. Common Core State Standards Leveled Books Accelerated Reader (AR) Lexile Scholastic Reading Counts! (SRC!) Fountas/Pinnell Common Core State Standards Early Learning Education Gifted Education Math

3. Leveled Titles

4.  Accelerated Reader (AR)  Lexile  Scholastic Reading Counts (SRC!)  Fountas/Pinnell

5. Common Core State Curriculum

6. Common Core State Standards School and Library Catalog

7. Common Core State Standards Kane Miller Catalog

8. Common Core State Standards UBAM Catalog

9. Nationwide educational standards to help students become ready for college or career. Approved in 48 states and territories Currently implemented in a few states Training in most states currently What is Common Core State Standards (CCSS)?

10.  English Language Arts and Mathematics  Science is currently being developed  Many states aligned (or in process of aligning) current curriculum with new standards  If your state isn’t in the “list” maybe not adopted yet or already similar – check your state’s DOE website  Subscribe to your state’s DOE email list for updates

11.  Reading:Literature (RL)  Reading:Informational Text (RI)  Reading:Foundational Skills –only K-3 (RF)  Writing (W)  Speaking and Listening (SL)  Language (L) Code.GradeLevel.StandardNumber English Language Arts (K-5 and 6-12)

12. Standard: Reading Foundational Skills Level: Kindergarten # of standard categories: 4  Print Concepts  Phonological Awareness  Phonics and Word Recognition  Fluency

13. CIA > School & Library > Core Curriculum Code.GradeLevel.StandardNumber

14.  Counting and Cardinality (CC)  Operations and Algebraic Thinking (OA)  Numbers and Operations in Base 10 (NBT)  Measurement and Data (MD)  Geometry (G)  Numbers and Operations – Fractions (NF)  Ratios and Proportional Relationships (RP)  Statistics and Probability (SP)  Expressions and Equations (EE)  The Number System (NS)  Functions (F)  Highschool standards – trig,polynomials,etc… GradeLevel.code.StandardNumber Mathematics (K-8) & Highschool

15. Standard: Measurement and Data Level: Kindergarten # of standard categories: 2 # of standards:3  Describe and Compare measurable attributes  Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category

16. CIA > School & Library > Core Curriculum GradeLevel.Code.StandardNumber

17.  A couple of titles specifically mentioned: First Encyclopedia of Human Body and All About Scabs  Greek Myths, Stories from Around the World, Folk Tales, Aesop’s Fables, Shakespeare  Great info to know for schools but also home shows Things to Know…

18.  Mention it in library meetings  Set up meetings with grade level reps  Public libraries  Gives us credibility How can this help us with schools and libraries?

19. How can this help us with Home Parties?  Helps moms pick out books for their children  Don’t need a copy of the list with you  Just let them know we are aligned and we can help you pick out appropriate books for their child  Homeschooling families will appreciate  Get leads for schools

20. Early Learning Education

22.  Animals are awesome  Colors, shapes, alphabet, numbers  Active play  Award winning read-aloud collection  Creepy Crawlies  My Community and My Home  Dinosaurs  On The Farm  Holidays  Manners  Big Machines  Monsters and Make-Believe  Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales  Let’s Read – Phonics  Space  Teacher/Parent Resource Guides  All About Water  Weather  Read Aloud Collection Themes

24. CIA > School & Library > Core Curriculum > Early Learning Education All grouped in one file with tabs at bottom…

25.  List of books to help you sell around a theme  Use LFL for HeadStart and Early HeadStart programs  Help preschools pick out books to coordinate with current curriculum How can this help us?

26. Gifted Education

27.  Creativity and Problem Solving are key themes in gifted education national standards  www.NAGC.org  Most states have gifted programs but not all have gifted funding  Great opportunity for “mini-bookfairs” for those classes since they don’t get funding  Home show moms love materials for gifted children CIA > School & Library > Core Curriculum

28. Mathematics

29.  Problem Solving  Math/Science Nights  Home parties CIA > School & Library > Core Curriculum How can we use this in our business?

30. Summary  Why is this important to us?  How can we use this to increase sales?  Resources  Your local state DOE website  www.corestandards.org  CIA link on our log-in pages