Basal Alignment Project for Grades 3-5 Takes Off

The Basal Alignment Project offers Core-aligned lessons revisions for 3rd-5th grade Basal reading series. Each lesson has been carefully aligned to the CCSS by a team of teachers, and includes quality text-dependent questions, improved tasks, and a focus on academic vocabulary.

BAP now offers 267 revised lessons, across these Basal Readers:
• HMH Collections, Journeys, Medallion/Reading, Nation’s Choice, StoryTown, and Trophies
• MH Imagine It!, Open Court, Treasures, and Treasures (CA)
• Pearson Reading Street

Nearly 13,000 teachers are using these lessons, which are available on Edmodo. Learn more about BAP.

Coming Soon: the Anthology Alignment Project for Grades 6-10

We’re pleased to announce the Anthology Alignment Project, a collaborative effort by teachers to align common Grade 6-10 Anthologies in a similar fashion to the BAP resources. These lesson materials will become available in late Spring, 2013.

Learn more about joining the Anthology Alignment Project.

Our favorite recent articles:

Straight Up Conversation: Common Core Guru Jason Zimba - Math Standards contributing author Jason Zimba is interviewed in Education Week on the biggest CCSS misconceptions and more.

Building Vocabulary Crucial to Common-Core Success, New Research Says - Describes the “renewed focus on the teaching of vocabulary, especially academic vocabulary.”

Over 70 top business leaders proclaimed their support for the Common Core State Standards in an open letter published in the New York Times on February 12th.

View the letter.