Parent Resources for Common Core Homework

Here are some resources to help parents and students doing homework or coursework aligned with the Common Core State Standards Initiative:

  • A Parents' Guide to Student Success – a grade-by-grade guide that explains key items that children should be learning in English and math. This guide features activities parents can do at home to support their child’s learning, and highlights questions parents can ask their child’s teacher.
  • State Assessment Guides – a guide by the National PTA showing states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards. It provides state-specific information about assessment consortium, testing timelines, sample test questions, impacts on students, new accountability systems and ways for parents to get involved and support their child’s learning at home.
  • Common Core Video Series – a video series is designed to educate parents on the Common Core State Standards and empower them to support the transition at school and at home. The video series includes a video on math and the Common Core.
  • Learn from the Teachers – a website where teachers, parents, and students can find lessons and information taught in the classroom. Review grade-specific lessons, find practice problems and share resources with teachers to help learn what your child is learning in the classroom. Find math assessments, lessons and more on the website.
  • Parent Road Maps – detailed information for parents from grade to grade. Know what the Common Core expectations are for you're child at every grade in math, science, and language arts to stay one step ahead.
  • Tips for Parents – find tips for math by students' grade and the subject they are learning. This site provides comprehensive guides to each subject with practice problems and explanations.
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