SUPPLEMENTAL SUPPORT
As per the CWCS Curriculum Policy, all students in grades Kindergarten through twelve (K-12) will be provided and use Concepts and Skills Review Materials at their grade level. Although Concept and Skills Review curricula alone is not intervention curricula, it can be used as a foundation to assist parents in scaffolding student's instructional level concepts to student's grade level concepts in order to close academic gaps and bring a student to grade level. Training is available for ESs and Parents to assist with scaffolding strategies.
We encourage families to use quality, state adopted curriculum along with the CA State Common Core Standards to ensure content mastery.
Families who choose not to use the state adopted curriculum must use CWCS approved concepts and skills review curriculum to ensure content alignment to state standards and to fill in gaps that non-state adopted curriculum may have.
The following programs have been approved by CWCS for Concepts and Review and in most cases, can be provided at no or reduced cost to your Education Specialist's instructional funding budget for your student.
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Program
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Subjects
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Grade Levels
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Publisher
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Vendor
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On Core
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Math
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K-12
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Houghton Mifflin
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Rainbow Resource
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Common Core Coach
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ELA and Math
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1-8
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EPS School Specialty
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Ready Common Core
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ELA and Math
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1-8
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Curriculum Associates
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Study Island
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ELA and Math
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TK-12
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Edmentum
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Computer Aided Instruction - OML
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Moby Max
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ELA and Math
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TK-8
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Moby Max
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Computer Aided Instruction - Free
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IXL
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ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies
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TK-12
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IXL Learning
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Computer Aided Instruction - OML
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CAASPP: Smarter Balanced
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ELA and Math
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3-8 and 11
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Smarter Balanced
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Free Online Resource
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Additional Resources
The following information can also help parents understand more about the California State Standards.
What are the biggest ideas in Common Core? The biggest ideas in Common Core come in these "big shifts" in instruction. We encourage all Parent-Teachers to begin incorporating these shifts into their instructional methodology:
- Increased and Integrated Technology (starting with computer navigation and typing in Kindergarten; reminder: 3rd graders will be expected to type a full page essay in a single sitting);
- Rigor and Relevance (the new standards are more focused to allow time to go deeper in understanding);
- Text Complexity & Expository Text (quantitative, qualitative and student task);
- Increased Writing (Consider My Access online writing program)