1. Common core and parcc
Jaclyn Cordasco

2. What is common core?
The Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy (ELA). These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. - standards/

3. What is its purpose?
To prepare students for college and career readiness
To combine the importance of content and skills
Written to create consistency among states. This holds all students to the same level of rigor and allows students to move from one state to another without creating learning gaps.

4. Who participated in writing them?
Governors and state commissioners of education
Teachers had input with assistance from The National Education Association (NEA), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

5. Misconceptions The Common Core tells teachers what they have to teach.
Teachers are still free to use their best practices and knowledge of their students to make instructional decisions.
It is a national curriculum and a federal takeover of education.
It is not a curriculum. It is a set of standards. How the standards will be met is left up to schools and teachers.

6. How to read the math standards
Each grade level standard has a domain, clusters, and standards.
Domain: Larger group of related standards
Cluster: A subcategory beneath the domain that summarize smaller groups of related standards
Standard: The individual skill or concept that defines what students should be able to achieve
does a great job explaining how the standards are written and can be read here.

7. Math domains grades K-5 Counting and Cardinality (K only)
Operations and Algebraic Thinking (K-5)
Numbers and Operations in Base Ten (K-5)
Measurement and Data (K-5)
Geometry (K-5)
Numbers and Operations-Fractions (3-5)

8. Mathematics
There are major clusters, minor clusters, and additional clusters in mathematics at each grade level, meaning not all content is equally emphasized.
All clusters must still be addressed in instruction in order to avoid gaps in learning.
Click to see the major, minor, and additional clusters for grades K-8
Clusters by Grade Level

9. Common core standards of mathematics
To look at standards for any grade level, K-12 for mathematics, click here.

10. How to understand reading standards
does a great job explaining how the standards are written and can be read here.

11. Reading anchor standards
Reading: Literature
Reading: Informational Text
Reading: Foundational Skills
Writing
Speaking and Listening
Language

12. Common core standards-ela
To look at standards for any grade level, K-12 for English Language Arts, click here.

13. PARcc testing
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is an assessment created by a group of states in order to assess whether students are on track for career and college success.

14. Practice test
You can take a short tutorial to see the layout and question types for PARCC in the link below. BE SURE to choose the Grades 3-5 online student tutorials for math or ELA. online tutorial To take a practice test, click on the link Practice PARCC tests

15. Mathematics standards and parcc
In order to see how students are assessed from grades 3-5 on the Common Core Standards for Math, take a look at the Performance Level Descriptors.

16. Reading standards and parcc
In order to see how students are assessed from grades 3-5 on the Common Core Standards for ELA, take a look at the Performance Level Descriptors

17. Resource links http://achievethecore.org/