Activity+One


 * Sample Performance Tasks from Common Core State Standards**
 * from Appendix B
 * from CCSS Appendix B Samples for informational texts in PDF
 * from [|CCSS Appendix B]Samples for stories and poems in PDF
 * PARCC (They'll be updating this throughout as assessments develop.)

= (11 minutes) Your Task 1: =
 * 1) With your partner, select two (2) performance tasks from Appendix B.
 * 2) Create a T-chart (two columns) on your chart paper and add the following:
 * In left column:
 * The page # of each performance task
 * Verbs + nouns/noun phrases
 * 1) Read the referenced standard, and in the right column of T-chart, add...
 * the standard number
 * verbs and noun phrases from the standard

= (5 minutes) Your Task 2: =
 * 1) Create small groups of four by joining with another set of partners.
 * 2) Share what you've charted.
 * 3) Discuss: What are the elements of a performance task?

= (5 minutes) Whole Class =
 * 1) With class, create a chart listing the elements of a performance task.

= (5 minutes) Read Aloud =
 * Excerpt from Richard Elmore's "Improving the Instructional Core."
 * [[file:InstructionalCoreExcerpt.pdf]]

Note: The excerpt is used with express written permission from Richard Elmore. You may purchase a different version of the document in the book //Instructional Rounds// from Harvard University Press.