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Assessments for Connections: English Language Arts
Assessments for Connections: English Language Arts

Learn about the various assessments available with Connections: English Language Arts.

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Assessments

Using assessment to check for understanding and make meaningful instructional decisions is critical to the learning process.

Find these Assessment Resources in Connections: English Language Arts.

Formative Assessments

Assessment

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Interactive

Check Quizzes

  • Three short Check Quizzes at the end of each Read in the chapter.

  • Measures close reading and the focus skill.

Project-Based Assessments

  • Alternative and authentic assessment through writing, research, debate, and presentation.

  • Demonstrate critical thinking and

    synthesis of information.

Connect to Testing

  • Prepare students for state and

    national high-stakes assessments.

  • Focus on academic vocabulary and

    focus skills taught in the chapter.

Summative Assessments

Assessment

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Interactive

Practice Performance Tasks

  • Provide an alternative assessment for students to demonstrate synthesis of the unit texts and themes.

  • Compare and make connections across multiple texts.

Unit Summative Assessments

  • Features multiple-choice and open-response questions using fresh reads or texts by unit authors.

  • Measure skill mastery at the unit level.

End-of-Course Assessment

  • Features multiple-choice and open-response questions using fresh reads of varying genres.

  • Compare and make connections across multiple texts.

  • Measure skill mastery across all four units of the text.

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