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Common Core Crosswalk

Compare Your Plan to the Newest Standards

Compiled by Mary Ratzer, Learning Curves Inc.

Students who are college and career ready in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening:

(- Reflect/Evaluate, – Motivated, Independent Reader, – Social & Ethical Responsibility)*

  • Demonstrate independence
  • Build strong content knowledge
  • Respond to varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline
  • Comprehend as well as critique
  • Value evidence
  • Use technology and digital media strategically and capably
  • Understand other perspectives and cultures

Integration of knowledge and ideas:

(- Connect, – Literature and Literacy)*

  • Use their experience and their knowledge…and logic to think analytically, address problems creatively, and advocate persuasively
  • Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats to address a question or solve a problem

 Research to build and present knowledge:

(- Focus, – Investigate, – Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation)*

  • Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a selfgenerated question) drawing on several sources and rating additional, related focused questions that
    allow for multiple avenues of exploration
  • Develop factual, interpretive, and evaluative questions for further exploration of the topic
  • Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research
  • Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information avoiding plagiarism

Production and distribution of Writing:

(- Express, – Construct, – Social & Ethical Responsibility)*

  • Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others
  • Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient texts
  • Explore and inquire into areas of interest to formulate an argument

Comprehension and collaboration:

(- Literary Response and Expression, – Literature and Literacy)*

  • Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on other’s ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively
  • Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally

Presentation of knowledge and ideas:

(- Express, – Literature and Literacy, – Social & Ethical Responsibility)*

  • Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience
  • Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding

* Inquiry terms added by HFM BOCES SLS

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