Standards & Targets

Common Core Literacy Standards

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Great resource for Common Core State Standards at a glance.

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Developing Targets that Improve 
Student Learning

• Determining what students must know and be able to do is the first and most crucial step in lesson planning. 
  
• Additionally, why waste our most valuable commodities, time and energy, on lessons that are not derived directly from state standards? 
  

The following guide adapted from Richard Stiggins, Classroom Assessment for Student Learning (2004), is designed to help educators think through the sometimes daunting process of breaking standards into manageable, usable targets.