8th Grade Report Overview

The materials reviewed for the Grade 8 do not meet the requirements for alignment to the CCSSM. The materials are explicitly shaped by the CCSSM, but many aspects of focus and coherence are lacking. The limited assessments provided sometimes require students to have knowledge of above grade level topics without providing practice for those topics. Additionally, not all of the standards are assessed. There is limited connection made between supporting and major work, and there are no explicit connections made to prior knowledge. Even though all of the CCSSM are covered in the textbook, the coverage is minimal, leaving the STEM book to give greater depth to the standards. The STEM book leaves some parts of the standards out, so students will not get extensive practice on all of grade-level problems. Overall, the materials fail to focus on major work and fail to provide materials that are coherent and consistent with the standards.