The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a group of states working together to develop a set of assessments that measure whether students are on track to be successful in college and careers. Administrations of the PARCC assessment included three Prose Constructed Responses (PCR), one per task for English Language Arts/Literacy. This document is designed to help educators understand the scoring of constructed response items. The following are included: (1) Task Types, Scoring Rubrics, Anchor Sets and Annotations Overview; (2) Scoring Process Overview; and (3) Released Items.