Literacy and The Common Core: Recipes for Action

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By Sarah Tantillo ’87

Published Jan. 21, 2016

This guide to designing units, lessons, and objectives to meet the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts is for K-12 teachers. It includes practical strategies that teachers can use to target key standards, and describes how to analyze the standards to support instructional planning and curriculum development. Tantillo is an educational consultant and former public school teacher in New Jersey. 

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