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Grades 6-8
Grades 6-8
Reading ACT Aspire Overview
Reading ACT Aspire Overview
ACT Aspire ELA assessments reflect the skills students are expected to have to think, reason, and analyze at high levels of cognitive complexity in order to be college and career ready; items and tasks target different
Reading 65 minutes
Key Ideas & Details
13-17 points (grades 6-7)
13-18 points (grade 8)
46-61% (grades 6-7)
43-60% (grade 8)
DOK Level
24-48%
DOK 3
Critical Standards to Cover for Reading ACT Aspire
Critical Standards to Cover for Reading ACT Aspire
JUST LIKE THE REGULAR ACT TEST, THE ACT ASPIRE IS WRITTEN TO ASSESS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AT EACH GRADE LEVEL. IT IS NOT ALIGNED TO ANY STATE STANDARDS.
Reading for Literature
Key Ideas & Details
Reading For Literature Key Ideas & Details, Grades 6-8 - RL Standards .pdfReading for Informational
Key Ideas & Details
Reading For Informational Key Ideas & Details, Grades 6-8 - RI Standards (1).pdfGrades 6-8
ACT Aspire Exemplar Items
ACT Aspire incorporates multiple question types including constructed response, selected response, and technology-enhanced items to better access student knowledge and provide more meaningful insights.
There are 3 item types used throughout the reading test.
Multiple Choice - (selected response) 1 point each
Technology Enhanced* - 1 point each
Constructed Response - 2-4 points
* Multiple Choice (MC), Technology Enhanced (TE), Constructed Response (CR)
Grades 6-8
Grades 6-8
Practice Questions
Practice Questions
FOR SAMPLE TEST QUESTIONS (2019), VIDEOS, WORKSHEETS AND MUCH MORE!
These resources are align to ACT Aspire and PARCC, but still provide great resources/questions on any given formative or summative assessment.
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Student Sandbox
Student Sandbox
The Student Sandbox provides students an opportunity to become familiar not only with ACT Aspire test questions, but also with navigating the TestNav test platform. Like the Exemplar Test Question Booklets, the Student Sandbox will present at least one test question for each reporting category for a given test.
The Student Sandbox provides students an opportunity to become familiar not only with ACT Aspire test questions, but also with navigating the TestNav test platform. Like the Exemplar Test Question Booklets, the Student Sandbox will present at least one test question for each reporting category for a given test.
Note: The Student Sandbox should be accessed with a desktop or laptop computer rather than a tablet or smartphone.
Note: The Student Sandbox should be accessed with a desktop or laptop computer rather than a tablet or smartphone.
ACT Aspire Reading Skill Targets for Students
ACT Aspire Reading Skill Targets for Students
TEACH WORD-PHRASING SIMILARITIES
MAIN IDEA & CENTRAL IDEA
THEME & MESSAGE
FIND & LOCATE
DETAILS & FACTS
INTENT & PURPOSE
ACT Aspire ELA (Reading, English and Writing) Assessment
ACT Aspire ELA (Reading, English and Writing) Assessment
Key Information
Key Information
Practice vocabulary, literary terms, and grammar rules
Encourage students to plan their essay-taking strategies in advance-including time to proofread their essays before moving on to the next section
Encourage students to read passages actively and carefully, and refer back to the passage as often as needed
Answer all parts of the question
Examples of constructed-response items in the reading test include the following:
Making claims about a passage and providing support using specific details from the text
Identifying similarities and differences between the key ideas of paired passages and providing support using specific details from both texts
Constructed-response items are scored according to rubrics that give students varying amounts of credit for responses that are correct or partially correct, enabling differentiation between multiple skill levels.
ACT Aspire Reading passages are drawn from the following text types:
• Literary narrative: Literary passages from short stories, novels, memoirs, and personal essays
• Social science: Informational passages on topics such as anthropology, archaeology, biography, business, economics, education, environmentalism, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology
• Natural science: Informational passages on topics such as anatomy, astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, ecology, geology, medicine, meteorology, microbiology, natural history, physiology, physics, technology, and zoology
DOK Resources
DOK Resources
Following Webb's framework, ACT Aspire applies
DOK 1 to items that require students to recall and reproduce information.
DOK 2 is applied to items that require mental processing that goes beyond recall--students apply skills and concepts.
DOK 3 is applied to items that require strategic thinking: planning, explaining, justifying, using evidence, conjecturing, and postulating.
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