Free Teacher Guides, Downloads & Forms

For your convenience, we have provided below one-click links to all of our free teacher guides, downloads and forms.

The Core Knowledge Sequence

The Core Knowledge Sequence is our tried and true guide to what every child needs to know in Language Arts, American and World History, Geography, Visual Arts, Music, Math, and Science, Preschool - Grade 8.

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The Core Knowledge Preschool Sequence: Content and Skill Guidelines for Preschool (large file)

The Core Knowledge Sequence: Content and Skill Guidelines for Kindergarten-Grade 8 (large file)

Forms, Brochures & Samples

Want to learn more about our philosophy and available products? Check out the free downloads below:

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2010 Catalog

2010 Order Form

Core Knowledge Works Brochure (large file)

Teaching Kids to Read

Thumbelina Read-Alouds

Thumbelina Sample Activity Pages

Quick Links Resource Guide

Core Classics Teacher Guides

The Core ClassicsTM series includes stories that have been loved for generations. Faithful to the style, plot, and themes of the originals, Core Classics are designed for use as classroom editions of the literary works listed in the Core Knowledge Sequence. The Teacher Guides below are provided for free to support classroom use of these classic works.

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Frederick Douglass

Don Quixote

Gulliver's Travels

King Arthur and the Round Table

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Robinson Crusoe

Robin Hood

Sherlock Holmes

Treasure Island

Purchase Rats, Bull & Flying Machines Guide

Grace Abounding Teacher Guides

The definitive textbook on the African-American cultural tradition, in a lavishly illustrated 931-page edition. With Grace Abounding students will gain insight into every facet of the African-American literary and arts tradition, tracing its development from African roots, through Emancipation, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, all the way to the emergent voices of the twenty-first century. The Teacher Guides below are provided for free to support classroom use of this anthology.

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Unit 1: Origin: Out of Africa

Unit 2: Let My People Go, 1619-1865

Unit 3: Up from Bondage, 1866-1939

Unit 4: Civil Rights and Beyond, 1939-Present

Supplemental Information

Appendix B: Biblical Literacy, from the 1999 K-8 Sequence:  The Core Knowledge Foundation provides this appendix in response to many requests for a more comprehensive selection of topics from the Bible than is provided in the Core Knowledge Sequence. The topics listed below are not an integral or required part of a Core Knowledge school program. This list of Biblical topics that are widely alluded to in speech and writing has an educative purpose: it is designed to help students understand these allusions when they encounter them. No reasonable person will interpret this list as intending religious indoctrination.

A distinction needs to be made between teaching the Bible and teaching about the Bible. Teaching the Bible as a guide to faith is the job of the home (if the home so chooses) or church, not the schools. Teaching about the Bible in historical context is something schools can do to help produce literate and historically informed citizens.

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Appendix B: Biblical Literacy