Common Core Implementation

While I'd rather be reading.... I need to spend some time understanding the common core state standards.  In the past year, my district has spent quite a bit of professional development time focusing on the common core.  I feel I have a pretty good understanding of the standards.  I want my focus this coming year to be on implementation, particularly in regards to Literacy.  I was listening to a podcast on Choice Literacy where the speaker recommended looking collaboratively at each standard and create a dialogue on what that standard looks like in the classroom.  To that effect, I am going to begin a series of posts on each standard.  My hope is to make that post an ongoing post in which through the comments, I can continue to shape and develop my understanding of implementation of the standard in my classroom.  I am not necessarily looking to develop lessons for the standards but rather develop ways to implement and integrate the standard into daily practice.  I am going to be focusing on the third grade standards because next year I will be teaching third grade again after a two year hiatus in fifth grade, third grade is also the first testing year, and third grade is the middle of elementary school (the beginning of intermediate).

So, to get things started....  A short video: