Research Guides: Curriculum Resources for PK-12: Curriculum Standards

Michigan Standards for
Curriculum Development

Common Core State Standards

Common Core State Standards Initiative

National and International Standards

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards
International Literacy Association Standards
Includes: Standards for the Preparation of Literacy Professionals 2017, Standards for Reading Professionals-Revised 2010, Standards for Middle and High School Literacy Coaches, and Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing.
ISTE Standards
National Core Arts Standards
National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
Only part of this publication can be viewed online at the site. The EMU Library has the full standards in print form.
National English Language Arts Standards
World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages
National Mathematics Standards
National Physical Education Standards
National Standards for Civics and Government
Next Generation Science Standards
Next Generation Science Standards - on NSTA site
This NSTA site offers the standards along with resources for curriculum planning, professional learning, and classroom use.
Educating for American Democracy
Seven themes map out the disciplinary and conceptual terrain, as well as the skills and dispositional learning needed to support healthy civic participation.

Selected print books on using the Common Core in the ERC

Meeting Common Core Technology Standards by ISTE
Call Number: ERC T 47 .M6772 2016 (K-2 volume)
ERC T 47 .M6775 2016 (grades 3-5)
ERC T 47 .M6774 2016 (grade 6-8)
ERC T 47 .M6773 2016 (grades 9-12)
Publication Date: 2016
Shows teachers how to integrate the tech-related language found within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into their everyday curriculum.

Selected Ebooks on Using the Common Core

Teaching Young Adult Literature: Integrating, Implementing, and Re-Imagining the Common Core by Judith A. Hayn (Editor); Jeffrey S. Kaplan (Editor); Amanda L. Nolen (Editor); Heather A. Olvey (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015
Provides strategies on using Young Adult Literature to meet Common Core standards.

Selected books on using the Common Core available for check out

Pathways to the Common Core by Christopher Lehman; Lucy Calkins; Mary Ehrenworth
Call Number: 3rd Floor, LB 3060.83 .C36 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Provides insight for using the Common Core Language and Literacy standards.
The Path to Get There by Douglas Fisher; Nancy Frey; Cristina Alfaro; Joseph McDonald
Call Number: 3rd Floor LB 3060.83 .F57 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Standards in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects are explained in detail, including examples of lessons designed to ensure that students master each standard.
Text Complexity by Douglas B. Fisher; Nancy Frey; Diane K. Lapp
Call Number: 3rd floor LB 1573.7 .F56 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Guides teachers on how to craft instruction pitched to students' comprehension capacities, curriculum themes, and teachers' own assessments on what students need next. Updates to this new edition include a rubric for analyzing text complexity and new ideas on close, small group, and independent reading.
The Common Core: Teaching K-5 Students to Meet the Reading Standards by Maureen McLaughlin; Brenda J. Overturf
Call Number: 3rd floor LB 1576 .M29 2013
Publication Date: 2012
Explains the key points of the CCSS reading standards, then aligns each Standard with appropriate research-based strategies.
Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, PreK-2 by Lesley Mandel Morrow (Editor); Timothy Shanahan (Editor); Karen K. Wixson (Editor); Susan B. Neuman (Foreword by); Jennifer Renner Del Nero (Introduction by)
Call Number: 3rd Floor LB 1576 .T428 2013, 3rd Level
Publication Date: 2012
Provides a theoretical background and detailed explanation of each of the CCSS/ELA standards, as well as practical suggestions, classroom vignettes, models, instructional resources, and unit ideas to implement the standards.
Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading by Kylene Beers; Robert E. Probst
Call Number: 3rd floor LB 1576 .B423 2013
Publication Date: 2012-11-01
Identifies signposts that help readers understand and respond to character development, conflict, point of view, and theme; provides text-dependent anchor questions that help readers take note and read more closely; offers model lessons.
Kid-Tested Writing Lessons for Grades 3-6 by Leslie Blauman; Harvey Daniels
Call Number: 3rd floor LB 1576 .B4984 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Offers research-based writing lessons that incorporate mentor texts and support the Common Core State Standards.