What is the Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project?
Early on during the development of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Common Core recognized that these important and influential standards would have the potential to raise achievement for many students if they were paired with first-rate curriculum materials. We therefore set out to create tools that teachers could use to develop strong, CCSS-aligned English language arts (ELA) curricula. The result is Common Core’s Curriculum Maps in ELA: a coherent sequence of thematic curriculum units, roughly six per grade level, K–12. The unit maps connect the skills outlined in the CCSS in ELA with suggested works of literature and informational texts and provide activities teachers could use in their classrooms.
