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- Computerized testing will NOT take place this year in grades 3-5
- Less is more - fewer standards that are more focused
- Aligned with college and workforce expectations
- Rigorous content and higher order thinking skills
- Focus on the "end" result rather than the means to get there
- Room for teachers to develop how they want to get the kids to the end goal
- Reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language are to be taught across all disciplines
- Upper elementary reading - 50% literature 50% reading for information
- There are 3 appendices (900 pages) - Reading/Writing
- Research and evidence - glossary of key terminology
- Reading text exemplars and sample performance tasks
- Annotated student writing samples
- Focus on complexity, quality and range of reading material (based on Lexile levels)
- Reading across content areas
- Anchor Standards - college and career readiness standards (by the end of high school) CCR's
- Grade Specific Standards fall under the Anchor Standards - what students should be learning at each grade level to meet the Anchor Standards by end of high school - CCSS's
- Reading, Writing, Speaking/Listening, Language are the 4 strands in ELA standards
- Reading Domains (Overarching Idea)
- key ideas and details
- craft and structure
- integration of knowledge and ideas
- range of reading and level of text complexity
- Balance between literature and informational text
- Text complexity!!
- Writing - emphasis on argument and informative/explanatory writing; writing about sources
- text types and purposes
- production and distribution of writing
- research to build and present knowledge
- range of writing
- Speaking and Listening - formal and informal talk
- comprehension and collaboration
- presentation of knowledge and ideas
- Language - general academic (ie. compare/contrast) and domain-specific vocabulary
- Math Practices instead of Anchor Standards
- create solid foundation in whole numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals
- 50% of 4th grade test will be fractions
- 8 important math practices
- Domains - Standards make up Clusters - Each cluster begins with a Cluster Statement
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- Based on Webb's Depths of Knowledge (only 4, but they correspond with Bloom's Taxonomy) DOK will appear in Level of Thinking Box on RESA document.
