Understanding Elementary

Progress Reports for

English Language Arts (ELA)
& Math

November 2016
 Why were changes made to the elementary progress report?
New federal & state legislation
Minnesota Common Course Catalog created to describe courses
offered, teachers who taught them and students who completed them

How will grades be reported in ELA & Math?

Strand-level reporting

2016-17 K-5
Elementary What supports are in place for teachers and families?
Progress Rubrics
Reports ELA
Math
Progress Report Companions for Families

The Golden Circle

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards--English Language Arts
Four Strand Areas
The Reading Strand is
divided into 3 Substrands:
1. Reading--Literature
2. Reading--Informational
Text
3. Reading--Foundational
Skills

MN ELA Standards
 How will students be graded in ELA this
year?
Comprehension: Making meaning

Phonemic Awareness, Phonics,&

Fluency

Types of writing, writing process

Sharing ideas through

conversations, presentations,
technology

Grammar, vocabulary, spelling

 Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards in Mathematics
Four Strand Areas

1. Number & Operation 2. Algebra

3. Geometry & Measurement 4. Data Analysis & Probability

MN Math Standards
 How will students be graded in Math this
year?
Understand numbers, ways of representing
numbers, relationships among numbers, and
number systems
Understand meanings and relationships of
operations
Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates
Fractions, decimals, ratios, percents...

Recognize, create, describe and use

patterns and rules to solve real-world
and mathematical problems.
Use number sentences involving
operations and unknowns to represent
and solve real-world and mathematical
problems; create real-world situations
corresponding to number sentences.

Describe, classify, and compose and decompose Collect, organize, display and interpret data
representations of lines, angles, shapes and figures.
Use concepts of measurement in real-world and
mathematical situations