As teachers, it is our job to encourage learners to stand up for what they believe in and help them learn lessons from life's events. A set of practice questions designed for the ELA MCAS assessment features passages that teach positive lessons. Comprehension questions and a writing prompt accompany each passage and the resource offers graphic organizers to aid learners with accommodations.

Concepts

Narrative Writing, reading comprehension, essay writing, compare and contrast

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Conduct an in-class peer review of essay responses to help writers improve their writing

Classroom Considerations

• Requires knowledge of the features of narrative and comparison/contrast essays
• Many pages only contain a few items, leaving a lot of paper blank, so review before deciding what to print

Pros

• Contains texts with numbered paragraphs for easy reference
• Offers a computer-based version of the practice test with guest login

Cons

• Asks a limited number of questions about each passage which may not fully assess student understanding

Common Core

RL.8.1 RL.8.2 W.8.3.a W.8.9.a