Standards+and+Resources

=The Common Core= Along with many of the states in the nation, the Common Core Standards are the basis for our curriculum.

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[|The Official Common Core Website]

=PARCC assessment= This is a quick summary page of the assessment system that we will use in Colorado for literacy. [|PARCC Grades 3-8 Testing Fact Sheet]

This is the generally summary of the type of testing we will do this year.
 * **Performance-Based Assessment (PBA)** administered after approximately 75% of the school year. The English language arts/literacy (ELA/literacy) PBA will focus on writing effectively when analyzing text. The mathematics PBA will focus on applying skills, concepts, and understandings to solve multi-step problems requiring abstract reasoning, precision, perseverance, and strategic use of tools.
 * **End-of-Year Assessment (EOY)** administered after approximately 90% of the school year. The ELA/literacy EOY will focus on reading comprehension. The mathematics EOY will call on students to demonstrate further conceptual understanding of the Major Content and Additional and Supporting Content of the grade/course (as outlined in the [|//PARCC Model Content Frameworks//] ), and demonstrate mathematical fluency, when applicable to the grade.

I recommend that families try the online model test [|PARCC Practice Test] It will be useful to see how the new assessments are structured and the types of texts that they will encounter.