Glass, an education consultant and seminar teacher who specializes in curriculum and instruction, shows middle school and high school teachers how to translate the English Language Arts Common Core Standards into teaching practices using curriculum mapping for the entire year. She explains the roles of standards in general, the major emphases of the Common Core Standards, types of literature to differentiate among them, the features of the informational text genre, definitions of text types, identifying and articulating the standards across grades, and how to group standards and use groups to determine what students need to know. She details how to teach with essential understandings, write guiding questions, create assessments, identify and teach skills, and plan differentiated lessons. She includes a unit template, lesson design template, and model lessons. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)