What is on the test?

TEST MATERIALS

Two Test Booklets and one Student Answer Sheet  

DURATION

2.5 hours of testing time in total 

READING

Reading selections:

Informational (200 to 220 words)-Paragraph

-News Report  

  Narrative-Dialogue (about 225 words)

-Real-life Narrative (about 600 words)

 Graphic (fewer than 150 words)

TYPES OF READING QUESTIONS :

-Multiple-Choice-Open-response (six lines each)
 

WRITING

Types of writing tasks and questions:
Long writing tasks
-News Report (one page)

-Series of Paragraphs expressing an opinion (two pages)

Two Short Writing Tasks (six lines each)

 

 Multiple-Choice Questions
-developing a main idea with supporting details-organization of ideas-language conventions