Appendix A
Common Core and Illinois State Standards
The curriculum unit will be taught during the social studies block and will cover both language arts and social studies standards. The statewide curriculum is aligned with Common Core and has shifted to a much stronger focus on non-fiction texts. The four main language arts standard objectives are RI.3.2: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea, RL.3.2: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text, RI.3.3: Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect and RI. 3.6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text. The intent for these standards is that students will read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts across the curriculum, including age-appropriate materials that reflect the Common Core state standards for English Language Arts that’s utilized in Illinois. The social studies standard objectives that will be addressed are from the Illinois State Standards which are: STATE GOAL 17: Understand world geography and the effects of geography on society, with an emphasis on the United States. 17.A.1a Identify physical characteristics of places, both local and global (e.g., locations, roads, regions, bodies of water), 17.A.1b Identify the characteristics and purposes of geographic representations including maps, globes, graphs, photographs, software, digital images and be able to locate specific places using each, and 17.A.2b Use maps and other geographic representations and instruments to gather information about people, places and environments.
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