What is

Common
Core?
Common Core is a set of
high-quality academic
standards in
mathematics and English
language arts/literacy.
These learning goals
outline what a student
should know and be
able to do at the end of
each grade.
The standards were
created to ensure that all
students graduate from
high school with the skills
and knowledge
necessary to succeed in
college, career, and life,
regardless of where they
live.

Common Core
Standards
Research- and
evidence-based
Clear, understandable,
and consistent
Aligned with college
and career
expectations
Based on rigorous
content and
application of
knowledge through
higher-order thinking
skills
Built upon the strengths
and lessons of current
state standards
Informed by other top
performing countries in
order to prepare all
students for success in
our global economy
and society

A First Grade

Parents Guide
to

Idahos
Common Core
Standards

2016-2017
Meghan Lowe

Idahos Common Core

Standards for English
Language Arts
Key Ideas and Details:
Ask and answer questions
about key details in a text.
Retell stories, including key
details, and demonstrate
understanding of their central
message or lesson.
Craft and Structure:
Identify words and phrases in
stories or poems that suggest
feelings or appeal to the
senses.
Identify who is telling the story
at various points in a text.
Integration of Knowledge and
Ideas:
Use illustrations and details in
a story to describe its
characters, setting, or events.
Compare and contrast the
adventures and experiences
of characters in stories.
Range of Reading and Level of Text
Complexity:

With prompting and support,

read prose and poetry of
appropriate complexity for
grade

Idahos Common Core

Standards for Math
Instructional time should focus on four
critical areas: (1) developing
understanding of addition, subtraction,
and strategies for addition and
subtraction within 20; (2) developing
understanding of whole number
relationships and place value,
including grouping in tens and ones;
(3) developing understanding of linear
measurement and measuring lengths
as iterating length units; and (4)
reasoning and composing and
decomposing geometric shapes.
Operations and
Algebraic Thinking

Number and
Operations in Base
Ten

Measurement and
Data

Geometry

Add and subtract

within 20
Work with addition
and subtraction
equations.
Understand place
value.
Use place value
understanding and
operations to add
and subtract.
Measure lengths
indirectly and by
iterating length units.
Tell and write time.
Represent and
interpret data
Reason with
shapes and their
attributes

What You Can Do to

Help Your Child
The Common Core State Standards
provide clear and transparent
benchmarks that parents can use to
track if their children are on the path
toward college and career readiness.
These standards provide a great starting
point for parents to have a conversation
with their childs teacher about what
their child should be learning in the
classroom and how families may be
able to help their children outside of
school. Additionally, online resources
such as Be a Learning Hero are
designed to assist parents in helping
their children. Parents can search by
state, grade, subject and type and access
resources to support children outside of
the classroom.

Questions?
Feel free to contact me with any
questions or concerns you may
have. My phone number and
email are listed below.
Phone: 208-954-0680
Email: meghanlowe@u.boisestate.edu