This essential resource explains the key points of the CCSS reading standards, then aligns each Standard with appropriate research-based strategies, and shows you how to use those strategies to teach your students. Classroom applications and student examples will make this your go to CCSS resource. The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research. Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better. Contents: Part one: The Evolution Of Common Core State Standards -- Chapter 1 How Can Teachers Effectively Use The Standards? -- Chapter 2 Assessment And The Common Core -- Chapter 3 -- Implementation Of The Common Core Standards -- Chapter 4 -- Beginning Readers, The Teaching Of Reading, And The Common.