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 * The common core standards help inform our work as teachers with our students. The standards help by giving us a guideline of what the students must obtain during the course of the academic school year. The standards cover all content area such as social studies, science, mathematics, literacy, visual and performing arts, and physical education/health. As a teacher we are informed by the standards on how to plan our school year ahead based on the certain guidelines and goals that the students must achieve during the year. If we plan a lesson as a teacher and it does not follow any specific standard then we know that this lesson may not be the right lesson to teach because it does not fit into the guideline of what the students need to learn. For example when I did an interactive read aloud with Miss Ray's second grade classroom I included a standard within my lesson plan.**
 * RI 2.6 Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.


 * This standard was an English Language Arts Standard and fit according with my interactive read aloud of //I Wanna New Room// by Karen Kaufmann Orloff. My lesson was an interactive read aloud that fit in with their writing unit on persuasive pieces. I asked the students questions before, during, and after the read aloud to see if the students understood the message of persuading that the author was trying to send. This standard informed me that the lesson fit in the curriculum of second grade which portrays that this lesson is a step in the right direction in second grade learning. Common Core Standards also inform us as teachers what we need to know to help our students perform and complete the curriculum for their specific grade.**