Reading Sage: CCSS ELA and MATH Practice Test Online 2013-2014

Smarter Balanced CCSS ELA and MATH Practice Test Online 2013-2014 | Smarter Balanced Grade 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11 Pilot Test

Smarter Balanced just announced the start up of its online practice test portal for all grade tested on the CCSS ELA and Math. PARCC released online practice test in a different format for grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11 a few moths ago. The Smarter Balanced website is using a java style testing portal that is open for guest to try the new CCSS modern testing format for ELA and MATH.

"The Smarter Balanced Practice Tests provide an early look at sets of assessment questions aligned to the Common Core for grades 3–8 and 11 in both English language arts/literacy and mathematics. The release of the Practice Tests follows the Smarter Balanced Pilot Test, the first large-scale tryout of items and performance tasks, conducted February – May 2013"

Smarter Balanced Practice Tests Practice and Pilot Tests Portal

Common Core State Standards Practice Test

Common Core State Standards Practice Test: ELA English Language Arts and Reading

The Common Core Standards will be implemented fully in 2013-2014 in 47 states. The Standards are 1.5 standard deviations above today’s mean. Publishers (Harcourt Educational Measurement, CTB McGraw-Hill, Riverside Publishing (a Houghton Mifflin company), and NCS Pearson) and software developers (NWEA MAP) are writing and developing criterion/standards based assessments that meet the new higher standards. Teachers need to have access to assessments that give a baseline of skills and ability to meet these higher standards TODAY! The best free resource for teachers to do test prep and asses student readiness are the TAKS and CRCT released test. Teachers may want to use the grade higher to make sure they are evaluating student readiness.

I teach 4^th grade in a Title I school with 90% free and reduced lunch and my students have the highest reading and language arts score in the district as measured by percentile of student growth and number of student meeting or exceeding state assessments. My students have used the 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th grade TAKS released test and the CRCT practice test. They are a great free resource that exposes students to key Tier 2 and Tier 3 academic vocabulary.

Common Core Practice Test ELA

Common Core Sample Questions - Grade 3 English Language Arts

Common Core Sample Questions - Grade 4 English Language Arts

Common Core Sample Questions - Grade 5 English Language Arts

Common Core Sample Questions - Grade 6 English Language Arts

Common Core Sample Questions - Grade 7 English Language Arts

Common Core Sample Questions - Grade 8 English Language Arts

Common Core Sample Questions - Grade 3 Mathematics

Common Core Sample Questions - Grade 4 Mathematics

Common Core Sample Questions - Grade 5 Mathematics

Common Core Sample Questions - Grade 6 Mathematics

Common Core Sample Questions - Grade 7 Mathematics

Common Core Sample Questions - Grade 8 Mathematics

3rd Grade CRCT Language Arts Test