English Language Arts Skills Check Bundle: Prompts to Prepare for State Testing!
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Description
These Google Form tests for high school students (grades 9-12) contain passage-based prompts--including multiple choice, checkbox, matching, and short response styles--designed to mirror the types of questions that are commonly seen on state assessments. The skills checks are standards-aligned, excellent for use as summative assessments over the specific works from which the passages are selected. They work just as well well as cold readings for a more realistic testing scenario. The tests are almost entirely self-scoring, which makes grading a breeze!
Some of the topics covered include...
- repetition
- comparison
- tone
- diction (word choice), connotation, and vocabulary
- inferencing
- pronoun-antecedent agreement
- setting
- allusion
- theme
- figurative language
- author's purpose
- point of view
- development of central idea/theme/meaning
- making connection
- summarizing
- inferencing
- plot sequence
- reading comprehension
- paragraph organization (topic sentence, evidence, commentary)
- vocabulary
- punctuation
- syntax
- ...and more!
Included passages are selected from...
- Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
- "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- The Serial Podcast (Season 1)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- "Harlem" by Langston Hughes
- ...and more!
When implementing these skills checks, you may want to edit the instructions and settings to best suit your needs. When my students take these tests, I treat them as a practice, so I allow students to go back and edit their work as many times as desired to get extra practice in their weak areas and, ultimately, to increase their scores. I count them as only a minor grade.
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