Scoring Rubric for Text Based Writing Prompts

This scoring rubric for writing can be used with any of the ELA mini assessments developed by Student Achievement Partners at Achieve the Core.

Reading Closely and Writing to Text

Teachers, and students, are now familiar with reading closely and writing to text.  We need to be…in many classrooms across the country, these skills and strategies are the basis for the reading, writing, listening and speaking that is happening in our classrooms.  Are your students prepared to navigate a new testing environment and show they can read closely and write to texts? Are your students ready to take the new PARCC performance and end of year assessments in the not so far away months or March and April? A close reading of the ELA Practice Test for 3rd grade may leave you wondering…

Achieve the Core has a comprehensive set of mini assessments for the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards that can help students approach the new tests with confidence. One 3rd grade mini assessment includes a 22 page excerpt from the book, Because of Winn-Dixie, with seven text-dependent questions, and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS. There are mini assessments for grades K-8, and here are a few for 3rd grade…

 Grade 3 fiction/literary Mini-assessment for Mrs. Mack by Patricia Polacco

  Grade 3 nonfiction Mini-assessment for “Cactus Jam” by Ruth J. Luhrs

  Grade 3 fiction/literary Mini-assessment for “The Fisherman and His Wife” by Lucy Crane