PARCC Assessment

Test Question Examples

3rd Grade English Language Arts note:  The passage is below the question box.

3rd and 4th Assessments  Click on Elementary School Task (located on the left of the screen). Then click on any of the task.  Once you get into each task CLICK the ARROWS at the top of the screen to move to the sample questions. 

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Peek into a Classroom

Mathematics Classes in Action: Rigor Breakdown

3rd-5th Grade Skip County by Fractions   4 minutes

K-1 Counting Exercises  7 minutes

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Become a Common Core Parent Partner! 

 Support your child at home each day to ensure that he or she is fluent with whole numbers. See the chart below to see which math skills you need to help your child with this school year.

Computational Fluency
Computational fluency with whole numbers is an essential goal for school mathematics and forms the foundation for many higher level math concepts. The Common Core State Standards address whether students can perform calculations and solve problems quickly and accurately, as can be seen in the following table.

Grade	Required Fluency
K	Add and subtract within five
1	Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10.
2	Add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers. Add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
3	Multiply and divide within 100. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers. Add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
4	Add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers
5	Multiply multi-digit whole numbers

Fact Fluency Cards

Print the labels on adhesive labels (Avery 5160) and stick on blank index cards.  Or, write the problems on index cards.  Each card should have a problem on the front and the problem with the answer on the back. 

Addition and Subtraction Fact Fluency Labels

Multiplication Fact Fluency Labels

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CCGPS Timeline

The following chart outlines curriculum implementation and the associated assessment implications as Georgia moves to a National Common Assessment in 2014-2015 for ELA, Writing, and Mathematics.   

	2011-2012	2012-2013	2013-2014	2014-2015
Curriculum	Curriculum Awareness and Preparation for Transition	Teach CCGPS K-12 ELA and K-9 Math	Teach CCGPS K-12 ELA and K-10 Math	Teach CCGPS K-12 ELA and K-11 Math
State Assessment	Field Test CCGPS Items (CRCT)	Transitional Assessment with CCGPS Items	State Assessment with CCGPS Items	State Assessments for Science and Social Studies Only
National Assessment		Pilot National Common Assessment (PARCC)	Field Test National Common Assessment (PARCC)	National Common Assessment for ELA, Writing, and Math (PARCC)

Georgia is a member of the assessment consortium, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC), charged with developing the national common assessment to be implemented in 2014-2015.  This summative assessment will be a combination of performance tasks and a more traditional end-of-year standardized test.  The combination of the two assessments will determine a student's proficiency level.  You can learn more about the PARCC assessment by visiting www.parcconline.org.