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Try PARCC test questions live online! This is a peek into the future, and it should help us understand how to prepare students for the testing environment they will encounter beginning in the spring of 2015.

Create online assessments for free. PARCC like to some degree.

This is the PARCC page where you can click on links that take you to the actual online "live" samples of PARCC questions. You can click on math only questions for grade bands (3-5, 6-8, high school), or ELA only questions.

Try some "live" math problems online from Smarter Balanced. Not PARCC, but the rigor is good.

ERB may just have the online solution to student writing practice for PARCC. It's a subscription service, but worth investigating.

PARCC is the organization New Jersey is associated with for State testing, but the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is also a good resource for Common Core standard-related assessment items.

Whether it's ELA or Math Common Core resources you seek, this page from the Northern Valley Curriculum Center is a wealth of links.

While this site is not the easiest to navigate, it has a wealth of information. Keep an eye out for the PLDs (Performance Level Descriptors) for each grade level (3-8). These will help guide your instruction as you move your students toward PARCC success. Use this link to get to the PLDs: scroll down and click math or language arts to see the grade level links you want. If you want to print the PLDs for a grade level, make sure you've got the paper tray full in your printer--some of them are over 30 pages long.