2013 NYS Common Core Assessments

Grades 3-5What 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?

Grades 3 and 4 Grade 5

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

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.

Math Common Core Assessments

Math Assessments: Content Emphasis

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

Testing Times: Grade 3

Testing Times, Grades 4 & 5

Grade 3 Test Design

Test Design, Grades 4 & 5

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.