Comprehensive Common Core curriculum for World History, Grades3-5
The Alexandria Plan is Common Core's curriculum tool for theteaching of United States and World History. It is a strategicframework for identifying and using high quality informationaltexts and narrative nonfiction to meet the expectations of theCommon Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA)while also sharing essential historical knowledge drawn from thevery best state history and civics standards from around thecountry. The curriculum is presented in this four volume series:Common Core Curriculum: United States History, Grades K-2;Common Core Curriculum: World History, Grades K-2; Common CoreCurriculum: United States History, Grades 3-5; and CommonCore Curriculum: World History, Grades 3-5.
Features of each book include:
* Learning Expectations, which articulate the key ideas, events,facts, and figures to be understood by students in a particulargrade span.
* Suggested anchor texts for each topic.
* In depth text studies, comprised of text-dependent questions,student responses, and assessments based on a featured anchortext.
* Select additional resources.
* Concise Era Summaries that orient both teachers and students tothe historical background.
The curriculum helps teachers pose questions about textscovering a wide range of topics. This volume, Common CoreCurriculum: World History, Grades 3-5, introduces upperelementary students to 18 key eras in world history, from thediscovery of fire to modern globalization, through stories thatthey will treasure forever.
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