EDREPORTS RATINGS
Independent reviews from EdReports.org give Fishtank Learning high ratings for alignment to Common Core State Standards
EdReports.org provides a tremendous service to teachers, administrators, and school leaders who seek the highest quality instructional materials for their students.
We are proud to have received high ratings from EdReports for our Kindergarten–5th Grade ELA curriculum and our 3rd–8th Grade Math curriculum.
These reviews reinforce the feedback we regularly hear from educators: that Fishtank Learning is a comprehensive and well-aligned program that is improving how they teach and how their students learn.
Check out our EdReports reviewed courses, and stay tuned for additional reports and updates!
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
Kindergarten–5th Grade
Alignment
Meets Expectations
Text Quality
Building Knowledge
USABILITY
In Progress
Fishtank Learning partially met expectations for Usability in EdReports' initial review. We recently launched Fishtank Plus to make implementation easier and more effective.
Updated materials will be reviewed again in 2020.
Text Quality
Texts are rigorous and high-quality, meeting the text complexity criteria for each grade
Materials support students’ advancing toward independent reading
Materials provide opportunities for rich and rigorous evidence-based discussions and writing about texts
Materials in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language support foundational reading development and are aligned to the standards
Building Knowledge
Materials build knowledge through integrated reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language
Materials contain high-quality questions and tasks that require students to analyze the language, key ideas, details, craft, and structure of individual texts
The questions and tasks support students’ ability to complete culminating tasks in which they demonstrate their knowledge of a topic
Materials include a cohesive, year-long plan to support students’ increasing writing skills over the course of the school year
MATHEMATICS
3rd-8th Grade
Alignment
Meets Expectations
Focus & Coherence
Rigor & Mathematical Practices
USABILITY
In Progress
Fishtank Learning partially met expectations for Usability in EdReports' initial review. We recently launched Fishtank Plus to make implementation easier and more effective.
Updated materials will be reviewed again in 2020.
Focus & Coherence
Addresses all grade-level content over the course of a school year
Devotes large majority of instructional time to the major work of the grade
Supporting content engages students in the major work of the grade
Materials are consistent with the progressions in the Standard
Materials make connections within and across domains, including attending to content mentioned in cluster headings
Rigor & Mathematical Practices
Attention is paid to conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and applications, which are treated both together and separately
Materials meaningfully connect the Standards for Mathematical Content and the Standards for Mathematical Practice, with careful attention paid to their full meaning
Materials place an emphasis on mathematical reasoning
