Sample a PARCC-like Assessment!

https://www.readworks.org/sites/default/files/lessons/810_macy_the_elephant.pdf

Teachers at the Marshall W. Errickson School have been hard at work creating PARCC-like assessments for the students in their classrooms. They are using GAFE (Google Apps for Education) to facilitate this process and are working with the building supervisor and technology integration coordinator to become more familiar with creating online assessments. Web sites such as ReadWorks offer teachers authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages,(at no cost), providing the most critical elements needed, both text and assessment questions. For our teacher-created assessments, the text to be read appears on the left-hand side of the screen and students scroll down to read the entire text. Next, students take the assessment featured in the right-hand column. Students are reminded to refer to the text as they complete the assessments. This format is very similar to the online format found on the ELA PARCC assessments for elementary school children.

Why not sample one yourself?

Click on this link to launch the assessment page.

The text and assessment questions used in the assessment above are from Readworks at http://www.readworks.org/passages/macy-elephant