Core Standards

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The Common Core State Standards are designed to be relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that students need for success in college and careers. This document will provide step by step instructions on how to associate the standards with lesson plans and assignments.

These instructions are for viewing the standards only. Security will give school administrators and district supervisors access to view Core Standards through the CS Viewer.

1. Under Grades/Lists there is a menu item CS Viewer.
2. Select CS Viewer
3. A list of Content Areas (English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies) will appear on the screen. At this time there are standards only for English Language Arts and Mathematics. Science and Social Studies will be added as they become available.
4. There will be a grade level at the bottom left of the window. Select a grade for which you want to view the standards.
5. When you select a Content Area on the left, a list of Domains will be displayed under the Content Area.
6. Select a Domain and one or more Clusters will appear under it. After selecting a Cluster, the standards will be listed on the right side of the screen.
7. To select a standard, click the green plus sign at the top left corner of the standard.
8. The selected standard(s) will appear at the bottom of the screen.
9. To unselect a standard, click the red X. The background color will return to the original light brown and the red X will be replaced with the original green plus sign.

To search for a specific term/word within the standards use the following steps.

1. In the upper right of the standards window is a search field.
2. Click in the field and type the word(s) for your search; then, press enter or click on the icon at the end of the search field.
3. All standards that have this word in the description will be displayed on the screen. The list will include standards from all Content Areas not just the current selected area.
4. You may select items from this list of standards as described above.