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2013 NYS Common Core Assessments Grades 3-5. What you need to know to prepare your students. Dates. ELA: April 16-18 Math: April 24-26 Science, Gr. 4: Performance: May 30; Written: June 3. ELA. Range of Informational Texts. ELA Design. Grades 3 and 4. Grade 5. How Long Will it Take?.
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2013 NYS Common Core AssessmentsGrades 3-5 What you need to know to prepare your students
Dates • ELA: April 16-18 • Math: April 24-26 • Science, Gr. 4: Performance: May 30; Written: June 3
ELA Design Grades 3 and 4 Grade 5
How Long Will it Take? Grades 3 and 4 Grade 5
Writing Rubrics 2 Point 3 Point See page 14 of the guide • 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
Fine Print at the bottom Grade 3 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. • 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.
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
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
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.