What will be expected?

• Writing Tasks

• Open Responses

• Multiple Choice

What Else you Need to Know

• Literacy Test is completed in one day

• Two booklets must be completed

• You will be given 2 test booklets and 1 student answer sheet

Types of Writing Tasks

• News Article

• Series of Paragraphs

• 2 Short Writing Tasks (need your own prior knowledge and personal experiences; not connected to the readings)

• Summary Writing is connected to the reading

What You Will Need

• Pen (Blue or Black Ink)

• Pencil

• Highlighter

READING

• You need to be comfortable reading:

  • Informational texts (200-220 words)

    • Paragraph

    • News Reports

  • Narrative texts

    • Dialogue (225 words)

    • Real-Life narrative (600 words)

  • Graphic Texts

    • (100-150 words)

• Types of questions you can expect will include:

  • Multiple Choice

  • Open-response (6 lines each)

• So focus on ...

  • understanding directly stated ideas and information (explicit)

  • making connections between information and ideas in a reading selection and personal knowledge and experience  

  • Understanding indirectly stated ideas and information (implicit)

WRITING

• Writing tasks you can expect to do:

  • News Reports

    • 1 page in length

    • Focus on the W5H, quotes, paragraph length, etc.

  • Short writing tasks

    • Six lines each

    • Support your personal opinion on a topic

  • Series of paragraphs expressing an opinion

    • 2 pages

    • Organizational

  • Summary with the reading

    • Six lines

• For the writing, you will be evaluated on:

  • Organization of ideas

  • Sentence and paragraph structure

  • Language conventions: use of capitalization and punctuation

• So Focus on:

  • Developing a main idea with sufficient supporting details

  • organizing information and ideas in a coherent/logical manner

  • using spelling, grammar and punctuation conventions in a manner that does not distract from clear communication