1.  2013 NYS Common Core Assessments Grades 3-5 What you need to know to prepare your students

2. Dates  ELA: April 16-18  Math: April 24-26  Science, Gr. 4: Performance: May 30; Written: June 3

3. ELA

4. Range of Informational Texts

5. ELA Design Grades 3 and 4Grade 5

6. How Long Will it Take? Grades 3 and 4Grade 5

7. Writing Rubrics 2 Point  Purpose: To assess the students’ ability to comprehend and analyze text.  Require no more than 3 complete sentences.  Must provide textual evidence to support your answer.  “Ask students to make a claim, take a position, or draw a conclusion, then provide two pieces of text-based evidence to support her answer.”  2 Point Rubric is on page 12 of the guide 3 Point  See page 14 of the guide

8. Fine Print at the bottom Grade 3  If the student writes only a personal response and makes no reference to the texts(s), the response can be scored no higher than a 1.  Responses totally unrelated to the topic, illegible, incoherent, or blank should be given a 0.  A response totally copied from the texts with no original student writing should be scored a 0. Grades 4 & 5  If the prompt requires 2 texts and the student only references 1 text, the response can be scored no higher than a 2.  If the student writes only a personal response and makes no reference to the text(s), the response can be scored no higher than a 1.  Responses totally unrelated to the topic, illegible, incoherent, or blank should be given a 0.  A response totally copied from the text(s) with no original student writing should be scored a 0.

9.  Math Common Core Assessments

10. Math Assessments: Content Emphasis

11. Additional Information  Grades 3-8 Mathematics Testing Program Guidance: September-to-April/ May-to-June Common Core Learning Standards  Grades K-6 Mathematics Content Emphasis Guide

12. Testing Times: Grade 3

13. Testing Times, Grades 4 & 5

14. Grade 3 Test Design

15. Test Design, Grades 4 & 5

16. Rubrics  2 –Point Holistic Rubric, page 10 of the guide  3-Point Holistic Rubric, page 11 of the guide  New Scoring Policies, page 12 of the guide

17. Math Tools  All students in grade 3 must have a ruler.  All students in grades 4 and 5 must have a ruler and a protractor.  The test will NOT tell students when to use the tools.