Third Grade Common Core Assessments

Third Grade Common Core Assessments

Third Grade Common Core Assessments

Have you heard the news? Core Common Standards has released a new set of workbooks to go along with the Common Core Standards Workbook series released last year. These ones don’t focus on activities and worksheets, though. These ones are all about giving you the tools you need to assess student success in each standard. Each 100+ page volume contains at least one assessment for all standards in third grade. Check out your copy of Third Grade Common Core Assessments today! They are available on USB or pdf via download.

These materials are covered in this workbook:

ELA: Reading Literature, Reading Informational Text, Reading Foundational Skills, Language, Writing, Speaking & Listening
MATH:  Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Numbers and Operations in Base Ten, Numbers and Operations – Fractions, Geometry, Measurement and Data

Third Grade Common Core Assessment Workbook

Third Grade Common Core Assessment Workbook

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Common Core Resources for Homeschool

Common Core Resources for Homeschool

Common Core Resources for Homeschool

Every school in the nation, or nearly every state and district, is in one way, shape, or form switching to common core. Some states are doing their own version, but nearly all states have adopted the national standards. What does that mean for homeschooled students? Since most homeschool students still have to take some state assessments, and since those assessments will be soon – if they are not already – aligned to the new national standards instead of old state standards, what is being taught at home might not be adequate anymore. Students might take those state tests and be unprepared for them. The changes might not seem too deep on the surface, but they have reexamined and realigned the way in which students learn, especially the WHEN part of that equation, even if teachers still have some freedom as to the HOW.

Our common core standards workbooks fit into any program. Some might use it as a supplement or as additional practice, but it also works for remediation, or as a core educational material to be supplemented with homeschool lessons and research projects. Take a look at our free samples to see if what we have fits with your homeschool student’s learning.

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Common Core Resources for Homeschool

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How to Use the Third Grade Common Core Workbook

How to Use the Third Grade Common Core Workbook

So how would a sample lesson look with our workbook? Well, there are a lot of ways to approach using our materials, depending on the strength and types of your core resources, but let’s look at our workbook as a supplement for this example.

Let’s say this week your language lessons focus on RL.3.1, a standard that says: “Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.” That’s a pretty dry way of saying that students can answer questions from text and use details from the text to get those answers, right?

This lesson might span a week, being combined with other complementary and similar standards. So, while you have one group working on some sort of reading exercise, you might pull a third of your class or a quarter of your class for a small group center. The center we have provided with this standard is called Find it in the Text. In it, we have a short story called Found Money. After reading the story, perhaps underlining during and doing pre-reading strategies prior to reading, there is a worksheet organizer with 6 questions. Each question must be answered, and a detail from the text that proves that answer must be provided. There is a blank page in the same format that allows the teacher to adapt this strategy to ANY text, like a complementary story in the textbook.

Other students could be working on the worksheets that go with this standard. There are two short stories, each half a page at grade level. There are several questions that use the same idea, requiring evidence and proof from the text to prove an answer. This might be a pre-test, post-test. It might be part of a centers rotation to work in small groups, pairs, or independently. All of these exercises are about 20-30 minutes. They can be repeated, reviewed, and directly support the learning of the standard.

This kind of lesson pattern could be repeated for each of the about 40 ELA standards, and each of the about 25 math standards in grade 3, because there are similar materials for EACH of those standards in our workbook.

 

Take a look at our free previews of the Third Grade Common Core Workbook to find things that you can use in your room in your own particular style. Every teacher has their own way of doing things, and we just want to support you! Hopefully it’s an adventure for everyone involved.

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What is Common Core?

What is Common Core?

What is Common Core?

The Common Core Standards can be confusing, frustrating, and stressful for teachers, parents, and even the kids. Nearly every state in the country is adopting the common core standards in one fashion or another, but what is common core really?

Common Core is a set of standards designed to make sure that students are receiving a similar education no matter where they live. Previously, certain skills might be taught in one state at different grade level than in another. Students who move from city to city, county to county, or state to state might all be at very different levels because of what was taught and when it was taught! This made for a very uneven testing field.

To combat this, most every state has adapted a common group of core skills that students should learn at age and developmentally-appropriate grade levels. So, a student that lives in one state should be learning similar materials, if perhaps in a different method, than one living in another state. This still leaves room for teacher creativity and regional differences, but the same basic concepts are taught universally.

Read below for more specific details on what standards are being taught at each grade level and how they are organized.

 

Common Core English Language Arts

Common Core English Language Arts

There are 6 Domains for the Common Core English and Language Arts. Each Domain has many standards for each grade level. These Domains are:

  1. Reading: Literature 
  2. Reading: Informational Text
  3. Reading: Foundational Skills
  4. Writing
  5. Speaking and Listening
  6. Language

There are 6 Domains for the Common Core Math. Each Domain has many standards for each grade level. These Domains are:

  1. Counting and Cardinality
  2. Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  3. Number and Operations in Base Ten
  4. Number and Operations – Fractions
  5. Measurement and Data
  6. Geometry

Each Grade Level has specific Common Core Standards for Math and English Language Arts that students must learn throughout the school year. In other words, the Common Core is basically, “What your students should learn by the end of the school year.” Use these links to learn more about your child’s Grade Level Common Core Standards in Math and English: Kindergarten Standards, First Grade Standards, Second Grade Standards, Third Grade Standards, Fourth Grade Standards, Fifth Grade Standards.

Common Core Workbooks

Common Core Workbooks

New Common Core Workbooks on USB

New Common Core Workbooks on USB

New Common Core Workbooks on USB

Many companies have common core workbooks, but how many of them also offer them on a handy USB drive? We are pleased to announce that our popular workbooks for grades K-6 are now available on grade level USB drives. Each drive is 2 GB, which gives you a little extra space for your own materials, as well as one of our grade level workbooks. With portability like this, you can have your common core workbook at school, at home, and on the go! No more being tied to one computer to plan your lessons or to print your materials. Anywhere you can find a USB port, you can teach your common core lessons!

On each grade level common core workbook USB, you will get the following:

  1.  A grade K, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 common core workbook. Each of our workbooks is between 500 and 900 pages long, filled with activities and worksheets that cover each grade level standard.
  2. A copy of the grade level standards posters that correlates with the grade level workbook you purchased.
  3. A how-to-guide
  4. and some extra space for your own materials! There should be 1.5 gb of extra space for your own school use!

New Common Core Workbooks on USB

New Common Core Workbooks on USB

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Common Core Ideas

Common Core Ideas

You know, common core does not have to be scary and painful for either teachers or students. If we understand the standards and how they are broken apart, we can attack each piece with fun and exciting ideas. Often, we will find that this is not NEW stuff, but rather a reorganized way to look at what we have already been teaching in years past. Your personal challenge for today (or this week, month, or year…) is to take each of these domains, look at them, and think about your favorite activity that fits into each one. If you can’t think of anything, ask a peer! Then, find lots of other ideas in our common core workbooks.

There are 6 Domains for the English Language Arts. Each Domain has many standards for each grade level. These Domains are:

  1. Reading: Literature
  2. Reading: Informational Text
  3. Reading: Foundational Skills
  4. Writing
  5. Speaking and Listening
  6. Language

There are 6 Domains for the Common Core Math. Each Domain has many standards for each grade level. These Domains are:

  1. Counting and Cardinality
  2. Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  3. Number and Operations in Base Ten
  4. Number and Operations – Fractions
  5. Measurement and Data
  6. Geometry

 

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