Pennsylvania Core

Standards 101(aka: Everything you’ve always wanted

to know but were afraid to ask.)

Assess your current thoughts and comfort with

the PA Core Standards

PA Core ELA Standard

CC. 1. 2. 3. A

PA Common Core

Grade Level

English Language

Arts

Standard Categories:1 Foundation Skills2 Reading Informational Skills3 Reading Literature4 Writing5 Speaking and Listening

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ELA Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content

5

E. 03. B-K. 1. 1. 2

Grade

Assessment

Anchor

Eligible ContentAnchor

Descriptor

Reporting CategoriesA = Literature TextB = Informational TextA-K and B-K = Key Ideas and DetailsA-C and B-C = Craft and Structure/Integration of Knowledge and IdeasA-V and B-V = Vocabulary Acquisition and UseC = WritingD = Language

ELA Instructional Shifts#1 Balancing Informational and literary text

#2 Building knowledge in the disciplines

#3 Increasing text complexity

#4 Text-dependent questions and answers (close reading)

#5 Writing from sources

#6 Building academic vocabulary

Math Standards

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Standards for Mathematical Practice

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning

of others.4. Model with mathematics.5. Use appropriate tools strategically.6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure.8. Look for and make sense of regularity in repeated

reasoning.

In English Language Arts:• Incorporate into instruction more text

dependent questions that require students to read a text closely to determine what it says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it.

• Have students read more non-fiction and complex texts.

• Focus writing instruction substantially on writing to inform and structure an argument, not only writing stories.

In Mathematics:• Focus instruction more on the few key

topics emphasized in each grade in the standards.

• Emphasize problem-solving and real-world application.

• Rigor: In major topics pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency and application with equal intensity.