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CCSS & Your Curriculum

95 Linking CCSS to Your Curriculum

The go-to-program for middle school lesson plans that bridge the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) with the classroom texts teachers love, making it easy to meet state standards while teaching great literature.

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CCSS Curriculum resources and books

Align your middle school curriculum

The 95 Linking CCSS to Your Curriculum offers a customizable and flexible “how to” for integrating the critical CCSS into your existing middle school literacy curriculum.

Help students build their knowledge of target standards by citing textual evidence and recording responses in the included graphic organizer.

Support students in applying and practicing the concepts learned in the lessons as they read their existing classroom texts.

Present lessons in any order for ease of integration.

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Teachers are thrilled to use 95 Percent Group’s products because they’re prescriptive, aligned to our standards, and they don’t have to search for resources to enhance their students’ learning and abilities.

Nikki Porter, Principal


Stonewall Tell Elementary School, Georgia
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What’s included?

Your complete package includes 17 lessons for mastering standard texts (fiction and nonfiction) including graphic organizers for each.

Starter activity where teacher defines the skill

Activities for close reading using a short-prepared paragraph on topics relating to themes studied in middle school

Opportunities to promote discussion about the skill and independent student activities

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How does it work?

Each lesson provides numerous examples of the target standard embedded within a 4-paragraph text, specifically written to best address the skills in the standard.

Using carefully designed text, students learn the critical core skills to apply their knowledge to their existing curriculum.

Students apply the new skill concept from the mastery lesson as they read their existing classroom text and use our graphic organizers.

95 Linking CCSS to Your Curriculum

Explore specially designed editions Grades 6, 7, and 8, and get started today.

Grade 6 Lessons for Mastering Standards (Grade 6 Teacher’s Edition)

Grade 6 Lessons for Mastering Standards (Grade 6 Teacher’s Edition)

Gain a customizable, flexible “how to” for integrating lessons on CCSS skills directly into your school’s existing 6th grade literacy curriculum.

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Grade 7 Lessons for Mastering Standards (Grade 7 Teacher’s Edition)

Grade 7 Lessons for Mastering Standards (Grade 7 Teacher’s Edition)

Deploy this 7th grade edition as the next critical guide for integrating CCSS into your existing literacy curriculum.

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Grade 8 Lessons for Mastering Standards (Grade 8 Teacher’s Edition)

Grade 8 Lessons for Mastering Standards (Grade 8 Teacher’s Edition)

The final linking solution you need in middle school, this edition helps you seamlessly integrate CCSS into your 8th grade curriculum.

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Link CCSS to Your Middle School Curriculum

The Common Core State Standards are essential to your middle school literacy curriculum, and we can make your work easier. Learn more about how you can align CCSS to your existing middle school curriculum.

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