Common Core Assessment Workbooks

So let me start this out by saying that our district, which I LOVE, is currently 'between' ELA curricula.  This feels a lot like being 'between' jobs.  On the one hand it is amazing to have the freedom to teach without a scripted curriculum and to be without fear of the Open Court Police lurking around the corner (kind of like sleeping in when you are jobless) but on the other hand, if I am honest, I am floundering a bit trying to pace teach the standards (kind of like not eating lunch on a schedule when your are not working).  So when I saw the Common Core Assessment Workbooks I got excited.  Our report cards are due in 2 weeks and I was starting to miss out on a lot of sleep trying to think of ways to assess all of the standards from this trimester.  Enter the Common Core Assessment Workbook!  Instead of dreaming up assessments I can keep dreaming up awesome lessons for my students :)  WIN!

The workbook hits my two major standards for this kind of resource: quality and easy of use.  The assessments are good measures of the first grade standards and they are quick to administer.  Other assessments that I have seen lately have been good assessments, but they would take hours to give to the class.  I am turning mama bear when it comes to my instructional minutes!  We only have so much time to get our firsties up to standard so we can't spend too much of that time on assessments or the kiddos aren't going to have time to learn all the standards.  These assessments are solid measures of what the kids should know and will not take days to test.  The other biggie is that the book is well organized and easy to use.  Need something for NBT.3 and don't want to spend the morning dealing with formatting a greater than/less than page?  No problem!  There's an assessment for that tucked right betwen NBT.2 and NBT.4 :) 

As an added bonus there are progress reports in there too. You can make copies of the master and have one page for each student.   One thing I would love to see added to the book is a spreadsheet for the whole class so I could track the class on one page.  The included progress reports are great for conferences, IEP meetings, and SSTs.

All in all, great resource!  I hope you like it too :)