General Parent Resources  Common Core State Standards– www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc

 Common Core Video– www.commoncoreworks.org/ COMMON page/378 CORE  K-8 California’s Common Core Standards Parent Handbook– www.smmusd.org/edservices/ RESOURCES STATE commoncore/pdf/ccsparenthandbook.pdf

 Parent Roadmaps to Common Core Standards STANDARDS (Council of Great City Schools') - http:// FOR CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS www.cgcs.org/Page/328

 Parents' Guides to Student Success (National PTA) - http://www.pta.org/parents/content.cfm? ItemNumber=2583&navItemNumber=3363 PARENT ROADMAP Common Core Grade Level Resources  A Look At Kindergarten Through Grade Six In California Public Schools– www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/grlevelcurriculum.asp

 Learn Zillion—High Quality Lessons For Review By Students All Aligned To CCSS– www.learnzillion.com Common Core Assessment  Smarter Balanced Practice Tests– www.smarterbalanced.org/ Designed to prepare all students to pilot-test/ graduate from high school ready for  Smarter Balanced Fact vs Fiction - http://www.cde.ca.gov/ post secondary education and careers. ta/tg/sa/smarterbalresources.asp

Parent/Student Home Resources Prepared by: Seventh Grade Tehama County Department of Education  Family Math Activities– http://www.orecity.k12.or.us/staff/ Educational Support Services curriculum_resources/mathematics/family_math_activities

 Everyday Mathematics- http:// Larry P. Champion everydaymath.uchicago.eduparents/ Tehama County Superintendent of Schools www.tehamaschools.org  Reading Resources- http://www2.ed.gov/ parents/read/resources/edpicks.jhtml (Adapted with permission from the National PTA) 16 Early Childhood Education Program: This Parent Roadmap Includes: TCDE’s Early Childhood Education Department is focused on preparing our students for success in school. We provide quality  An introduction to Common Core State START programs for children 0-5. Standards (CCSS).  Family Child Care Home Education Network provides subsidized care  An overview of what your child will be for children 0-3 in family child care settings. Participants must meet HERE income guidelines. learning in English language arts/literacy  School Readiness serves children 0-5 in Los Molinos, Gerber, and and mathematics. Corning with a home visiting program that includes playgroups and  Tips for talking to your child’s teacher family education. There are no income qualifications for this program. about his or her academic progress.  State Preschool enrolls 4 year olds from income eligible families. Our State Preschools are located on elementary campuses throughout the  Ideas and activities to help your child county. We accept 3 year olds, as space allows. extend learning at home.  Local Child Care Planning Council plans for child care by assessing the  Additional resources. community needs. Its members include community representatives as well as child care consumers.  California Preschool Instructional Network provides professional What are the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)? development for early childhood educators. SELPA (Special Education Local Plan Area) California has joined a national research-based movement to adopt The Tehama County SELPA, a consortium of the 14 schools districts in common standards and assessments for English language arts/literacy Tehama County, provides leadership, support, and technical assistance and mathematics. Common standards allow for collaboration among to teachers and families in Tehama County. These programs and states on best practices and professional development. Common services are identified through the IEP process and are specially learning goals provide a clear vision of what educators, students and designed to promote student achievement in the Least Restrictive Environment. Services provided include: parents in all states should aim for. These learning goals help ensure that  Leadership of countywide special education staff development to accelerate students meet college and work expectations, are prepared to succeed achievement for all students and eliminate the achievement gap in a global economy and society, and are provided with rigorous  Maintenance of a lending library for materials, curriculum, and assistive technology for standards. The CCSS include standards for English language arts/literacy county schools to support special education students  Leadership surrounding state and federal mandates regarding special education and mathematics for each grade level or subject course for K-12. In  Assistance for all districts in anticipating and responding to current and future English language arts/literacy, CCSS are organized by the College and challenges and trends in special education Career Readiness Anchor Standards. These broad standards along with  Collaboration with parents, businesses, and community partners to increase their the grade specific ELA standards (reading, writing, speaking and participation in schools and build public confidence and trust in public education listening, and language) define the skills and understandings students  Maximization of resources to improve the quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of school districts and the County Office must demonstrate to achieve literacy in all areas. In mathematics, Student Support Services content standards are organized by grade level or subject course (K-12), Student Support Services provide training, and include Standards for the Mathematical technical assistance, and direct services to Practices. These behaviors and practices schools, parents, students, and community deepen students understanding of agencies to support physical and emotional health and safety for all mathematics and enhance their problem Tehama County students. Staff provide leadership and expertise in the solving abilities. areas of school safety and crisis planning, bullying and violence prevention, substance use and teen pregnancy prevention, mental health, mentoring, nutrition, foster and homeless youth services, and truancy/drop-out prevention.

2 15 Tehama County Department of Education (TCDE) is dedicated to supporting schools and districts as they work to improve student achievement Why Are Academic Standards Important? and meet the needs of all learners. Please visit our website at www.tehamaschools.org for a complete listing of department offerings. The The Common Core State following programs offer resources that may be especially valuable for parents. Standards are important because Educational Support Services: they help ensure that all students, TCDE Educational Support Services provides administrators and teachers quality assistance in building knowledge and skills around the district no matter which state they live in, SUCCESS and school culture, goal setting and implementation, and instructional are prepared for success in practices. The goal of ESS is to build the capacity of educators to college and the workforce. They improve student achievement for all. Our services include: help set clear, consistent, and high  Professional development workshops  Administrator and teacher learning community facilitation expectations for students, parents,  English/language arts and Mathematics instructional coaching and teachers, build your child’s knowledge and skills,  District/school plan facilitation and help set high goals for all students. Having clearly  Community educational events defined goals helps families and teachers work together  Educational resources for loan to ensure that students succeed. Standards help parents SERRF After School Program: and teachers know when students need extra The Safe Education and Recreation for Rural Families Program (SERRF) is assistance or when they need to be challenged. an after school program which provides a safe, healthy and enriching Standards also will help students develop critical thinking environment for K-8 school children to participate in:  Homework Assistance/Tutoring skills that prepare them for the world beyond high  Academic Enrichment/Recreation school.  Social Skills Development  Prevention Activities Today’s students are moving beyond the basics  Youth Development ( and embracing the 4C’s—”super skills”  Character Education for the 21st century!  High Education  Career Exploration College OPTIONS: College OPTIONS provides free programs and services to strengthen the college-going culture in Tehama County, by increasing opportunities for students to pursue postsecondary education, and ensuring that all students and their families can make informed decisions about their education and their future.  Educational Planning Services o Advisors in public schools o Career Assessment Information o Information on preparing for college entrance exams and college admissions application assistance  Financial Aid Services o Scholarship information and programs o Help with financial aid applications  Regional Efforts o Programs and college awareness events for students of all ages and their families o College campus visits o Professional development for educators

14 3 How Can Parents Help at Home? College & Career Preparation  Ask your child to calculate the unit rates of items purchased from the grocery store. For example, if 2 The first column represents overarching cross-disciplinary literacy pounds of flour cost $3.00, how much does flour expectations also known as the ELA Anchor Standards. The second column, Mathematical Practice Standards, explains the cost per pound? important math processes and proficiencies students should  Use store advertisements to engage develop to prepare for success. your child in working with numbers. For ELA Anchor Mathematical Practice example, if a store advertises 30% off, Standards Standards have your child estimate the dollar amount of the discount as well as the 1. Reading 1. Make sense of problems sale price of an item.  Key Ideas and Details and persevere in solving  Have students use four 4’s and any of  Craft and Structure them.  Integration of the four arithmetic operations to write Knowledge and Ideas 2. Reason abstractly and the numbers from 0 to 20 (for example,  Range of Reading and quantitatively. 44-44=0; 4•4-4• 4 = 0. How do you get 1? 4/4+ 4 -4 Level of Text Complexity 3. Construct viable =1). 2. Writing arguments and critique  Encourage your child to stick with it whenever a  Text Types and Purposes the reasoning of others. problem seems difficult. This will help your child see  Production of 4. Model with that everyone can learn math. Distribution of Writing mathematics.  Praise your child when he or she makes an effort  Research to Build and and share in the excitement when he or she solves Present Knowledge 5. Use appropriate tools a problem or understands  Range of Writing strategically. 3. Speaking and Listening 6. Attend to precision.  Comprehension and 7. Look for and make use Collaboration  Presentation of of structure. STUDY Knowledge and Ideas 8. Look for and express ZONE 4. Language regularity in  Conventions of Standard and English repeated  Knowledge of Language  Vocabulary Acquisition reasoning. and Use

4 13 Tips for Talking With Teachers! Four Attributes of Don’t be afraid to reach out to your INTERSTATE College & Career Ready Students child’s teacher. You are still an important part of your child’s 3.14 education. Ask to see samples of your Academic Behaviors Higher Order Skills child’s work and discuss his/her progress Students possess the Students possess the ability to solve problems with the teacher using questions like: ability to organize their academic work, engage using critical thinking,

in self-assessment of reasoning and interpretation of  Is my child at the level where he/she should be at this progress toward course point in the school year? outcomes, manage their research and results, communicated in a  How is math progress measured? Can we look at time effectively, and manner that some of his/her work together? complete or College and career refine conveys clear  Which area of math is my child excelling in? ready students assignments understanding  What do you think is giving my child the most possess the ability to with precision of various trouble? How can I help? Do you have any solve real world additional activities that would support my child? and solutions. problems through the  Can you show me how you solved this problem in accuracy. conceptual class? Real World Academic application of key  Which math topics are coming up? What can I do to Application Language help get them ready for upcoming work? Students content knowledge Students  What is your preferred method of communication possess the using higher order possess the (email, phone, notes home)? ability to thinking skills. ability to  How can I keep track of his/her completed successfully demonstrate assignments? Do you communicate grades online? complete problems mastery of content area connected to real world skills and concepts through scenarios that require the appropriate use of conceptual application of academic language content knowledge, (reading, writing and Future Graduate Lane collaborative group work speaking) as defined by and use of various forms of the level of rigor within the media. standard.

12 5 Highlights of Math Progressions English Language Arts Here is an example of how students will develop mathematical skills across grade levels as they continue to In grade seven, students will continue to develop the challenge themselves throughout each year. ability to cite relevant evidence when interpreting or analyzing a text or supporting their points in speaking Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade and writing. Your child will also build academic Understand the Analyze proportional Understand the vocabulary as he or she reads more complex texts, concept of a ratio and relationships and use connections a unit rate and use the them to solve real- between including stories, plays, historical novels, poems, correct language to world problems. proportional informational books and articles. describe it. Use ratio Recognize and relationships, lines, and rates to solve real represent and linear world problems proportional equations . relationships in various ways, including using tables, graphs, and equations .

Samples of the Work Your Student Will Be Doing Sample of What Students Will Be Asked To Do

 Analyzing how the form or structure of a play or poem contributes to its meaning.  Analyzing how particular elements of a story or play interact.  Determining how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.  Using word roots to determine the meaning of words.  Conducting short research projects, drawing on several sources and identifying related questions for further research and investigation.  Writing for a range of purposes and audiences.  Engaging in a range of classroom discussions on topics and texts, expressing ideas clearly and building on the ideas of others.

6 11 Highlights of ELA Progressions

Mathematics Here is an example of how students will develop literacy skills In Grade 7, students will further develop their across grade levels as they read and write increasingly understanding of rates and ratios, using tables, challenging works of literature and informational text. graphs, and equations to solve real-world Sixth Grade Reading Seventh Grade Reading Eighth Grade Reading problems involving proportional relationships. Students cite evidence Students cite evidence from Students cite evidence from Students will also work on quickly and from the text to support the text to support analysis the text that most strongly analysis of what the text of what the text says supports an analysis of what accurately solving multi-step problems involving says explicitly and from explicitly and from the text says. They evaluate positive and negative rational numbers. They inferences drawn from the inferences drawn from the the advantages and text. They can integrate text. They compare and disadvantages of using will work with expressions and linear equations. information from different contrast a text to audio, different mediums to present Additionally, students will expand their knowledge of geometry media formats. video or multimedia a particular topic. and apply the properties of operations to solve real world versions. problems requiring scaled drawings and measurement of multi- Sixth Grade Writing Seventh Grade Writing Eighth Grade Writing dimensional objects involving area and volume. Students will Students introduce a topic, Students introduce a topic, Students introduce a topic, draw inferences about populations based on informal sampling develop it with relevant preview what is to follow, preview what is to follow, and data set creation. facts, definitions, develop the topic with develop the topic with well- quotations, and details, relevant facts, definitions, chosen facts, definitions, and provide a concluding quotations, and details, and quotations, and details, and Samples of the Work Your Student Will Be Doing statement. They organize provide a concluding provide a concluding the ideas and information statement supporting what statement supporting what  Using square root and cube root symbols to represent solutions . using formatting, graphics, has been explained. They has been explained. They  Solving multi-step problems involving rates, ratios, proportions and multimedia. The organize the ideas and organize ideas and writing maintains a formal information using strategies. information into categories. and percentages. style. The writing style is formal The writing style is formal  Identifying the unit rate of change in tables, graphs, equations, and uses appropriate and uses appropriate and verbal descriptions. transitions to create transitions to create cohesion. cohesion.  Solving problems using equations to find the value of one missing variable. Samples of Texts Students Will Work With  Using the properties of operations to generate equivalent. mathematical expressions. Literature: The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks; Roll of  Solving multi-step word problems by adding, subtracting, Thunder, Hear My Cry multiplying, and dividing positive and negative rational numbers Informational: Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction; Math in any form. Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone  Converting rational numbers to decimals using long division. What Students Will Be Asked To Do  Finding the area of two-dimensional objects and the volume and surface area of three-dimensional objects. Literature Informational Cite specific textual evidence Integrate the technical information as well as draw inferences expressed in the text of David Macaulay’s about the drake and the duck Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction from Katherine Paterson’s The with the information conveyed by the Tale of the Mandarin Ducks to diagrams and models Macaulay provides + ‐ ÷ × support the analysis of the to create a detailed summary of the perils of vanity. information, displaying a deep understanding of Gothic architecture.

10 7 Tips for Talking with Teachers! How Can Parents Help at Home?  Provide time and space away from distractions for Don’t be afraid to reach out to your your child to read independently. child’s teacher. You are still an important  Ask your child what topics, part of your child’s education. Ask to see events, or activities he or samples of your child’s work and discuss she likes. Look for books, Elementary his/her progress with the teacher using magazines, or related Middle questions like: materials online about High School

these topics that would College motivate your child to read.

?  Provide opportunities for your child to write  Is my child’s work meeting grade-level informative texts about expectations in reading and writing? topics that interest them using technology to publish  What are my child’s strengths and weaknesses in writing that is clear and purposeful. literacy?  Encourage your child to develop proficient listening and  What can I do at home to make sure that my Ln Boo speaking skills by having them mar k Driv child is successful in reading and writing in the Gram e paraphrase information, discuss content areas? misleading ideas, or deliver oral directions.  How can I help my child develop their speaking  Make time for conversation at and listening skills at home? home. Discuss current events, shared interests, and future aspirations for education and career.  Visit museums, zoos, theatres, COMMUNICATION historical sites, aquariums, and IN other educational places to PROGRESS help increase your child’s exposure to new knowledge and vocabulary.

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