Be Core Ready: Powerful, Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards

Be Core Ready: Powerful, Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving Common Core State Standards

Pam Allyn

“The Common Core State Standards are a Bill of Rights for all children.”

With this call to action, Pam Allyn provides practical strategies for how to implement core ideas for the classroom, school, and home communities. All students can be college and career ready scholars–reading, writing, speaking, listening, and using language in real world ways. This book answers all your questions about how to master core teaching and core learning. And

it’s all about what you, your school, your students, and their families can do right now to become Core Ready.

Continue on with the Core Ready Program:

• Be Core Ready: Powerful, Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards

• Lesson Set books full of Core Ready lessons for Grades K-2; 3-5; and 6-8.

“In this informative yet accessible book, Pam Allyn draws upon her extensive understanding of the Common

Core State Standards and the changes they demand for literacy education to offer innovative strategies and

implementation techniques that develop college and career readiness and inspire all students to become ‘curators

of ideas’ and lifelong readers, writers, speakers, and listeners. I will definitely use the Core Ready Series in my

ongoing work with teachers and city schools.”

–Ernest Morrell, Professor of English Education and Director of the Institute for and Minority Education,

Teachers College, Columbia University

"Let Pam Allyn help you conquer the Common Core by going to the core–the core of what readers do when truly

engaged with books.”

–Carol Jago, Past President, National Council of Teachers of English

"Help is here. As educators scramble to prepare themselves for the Common Core State Standards, Pam Allyn

has produced an invaluable resource. Written in a clear, compelling, and accessible manner, Allyn brings years of

research on literacy and teaching to help educators respond to the higher standards created by the Common Core.

By following the advice she offers and applying the ideas presented, educators will find that we not only have no

need to fear the Common Core, but we can embrace it as a way to address the learning needs of our students.”

–Pedro Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of English and

Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, New York University

An inspiring book filled with thought-provoking insights into the Common Core State Standards. Pam explains

the necessary ‘shifts’ I need to make in my teaching and alleviates ‘core anxiety’ by providing innovative, userfriendly,

and easy to implement ways to fill any gaps that may exist in current classroom practices. I can’t wait to

share this uplifting resource with all of my teacher friends!”

–Valerie Palacio, Grade 2 Teacher

Pam Allyn is an authority in the field of literacy education and the world’s expert in home and school literacy connections. As a renowned motivational speaker, expert consultant, author, teacher, and humanitarian advocating for children, she is transforming the way we think about literacy as a tool for communication and knowledge building.

Pam currently serves as the executive director of LitLife, a national literacy development organization providing research-based professional development for K-12 educators. She founded and leads LitWorld, a groundbreaking global literacy initiative which reaches children across the United States and in over 60 countries. Her methods for helping all students achieve success as literacy learners, including the most diverse learners, has brought her acclaim both in the United States and internationally.

Pam is the author of 11 books for educators and parents including the award-winning What To Read When: The Books and Stories To Read With Your Child-And All The Best Times To Read Them (Penguin Avery), Pam Allyn's Best Books for Boys (Scholastic), and Your Child’s Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age (Penguin Avery). Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Oprah Radio, the Huffington Post, The New York Times and across the blogosphere.