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spanExplorers – Common Core Lessons and Activities book/spanMeet the newCommon Core State Standards/emfor ELA as well as Literacy ;amp; Writing in History and Social Studies! This book is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing inference, text-dependent questions and more into your daily instruction.spanHere’s how it works!/spanWork through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core State Standards expectations.Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire – you can decide how in-depth to go.Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor ofCommon CoreState Standards, right before your eyes!spanExplorers- Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:/spanReading for InformationHigher-Order ThinkingWriting ProblemsPrimary Source AnalysisVocabularyGraphic OrganizersMap Activities ;amp; More!spanTips for using and reproducing the book pages:/spanUse some of the pages – or use them all – based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 inches, enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.Use the CCSS correlations grid to easily see whichCommon Corestandards are covered in each lesson.divCopyright 2013. Soft cover, 24 pages, 8-1/2 x 5-1/4, reproducible. Middle/high school.ISBN:978-0-635-10617-9span style=”font-size: small;”Table of Content includes:/span/divdivAge of Exploration: Reading Informational Textbr /Reasons for Exploration:Reading Informational Textbr /Means of Discovery: Reading Informational Textbr /Obstacles and Rewards:Classifying Informationbr /Prince Henry the Navigator:Reading Informational Textbr /Portuguese Explorers:Reading Informational Textbr /Columbus’ Discovery:Reading Informational Textbr /An Early Map:Primary Source Analysisbr /The New World: Primary Source Analysisbr /Tainos:Reading Informational Textbr /The Age of Exploration: Graphic Organizer/divdivMore Spanish Explorers:Reading Informational Textbr /Conquistadors:Reading Informational Textbr /English Explorers:Reading Informational Textbr /French Explorers:Reading Informational Textbr /Explorer Quotations:Point of Viewbr /Exploring the Americas: Chronological Events/divdivRegions of Exploration: Map Activity/divdivExplorer’s Vocabulary: Vocabularybr /Common Core State Standards Correlations/div