educational reform leading up to CCSS:

• See Dave Edyburn's presentation on reading reform
• Becoming Internationally Competitive (9:13) - Standford Prof. Linda Darling-Hammond explains relationship between international assessments and standards.

6 curricular shifts:

• 6 Curricular Shifts via NYengage.org  (see videos below explaining each shift)

• Shift 1: Balancing Informational  texts and Literature

• Maloch & Bomer (2013) Informational Texts and CCSS - Language Arts article defining informational texts
  

• Shift 2: Building Knowledge in the Disciplines

• Shift 3: Staircase of Complexity
  

• Shift 4: Text-based Answers

• Shift 5: Writing From Sources

• Shift 6: Academic Vocabulary

more on close reading: 

more on informational texts: 

more on text complexity:

more on academic vocabulary & academic language: 

critique of common core: 

• Pushing Back on the Common Core -- Thomas Newkirk provides 7 pages of healthy criticism of the common core and how they are being used
• The Common Core's Digital Literacy Gap - Barnwell (Aug 2012)
• Why Core Standards Must Embrace Media Literacy - (2012) Beach and Baker
  

new literacies and common core:

• New Literacies and Common Core - William Kist (2012) ASCD article

• The Common Core's Digital Literacy Gap - Barnwell (Aug 2012)

• Why Core Standards Must Embrace Media Literacy - (2012) Beach and Baker

• Common Core and the fate of Digital Composition (March, 2013) Ed Week article written by teacher Joel Malley 

state-based resources:

Minnesota Academic Standards: English Language Arts K-12 2010

• Standards and related resources found of DOE website
• Common Core Appendices related to ELA Language Arts
• Appendix A: Information about complexity and rigor
• Appendix B. Text Exemplars
• Appendix C: Student writing samples
• Common Core Curriculum Maps: Provides integrated curriculum units that demonstrate best practices incorporating the Common Core Standards in grades K through 12.
• MWP and DOE Workshops

Wisconsin DPI Resources for Common Core State Standards --

assessment frameworks:

• Assessment Diaries - series of blog entries hosted on ASCD Teaching Channel where teachers share assessment teaching ideas
  
• PARCC & Smarter Balance
  
• Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. (2011). PARCC model content frameworks: English language arts/literacy grades 3–11. Retrieved from www.parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/PARCCMCFELALiteracyAugust2012_FINAL.pdf