The Best Test Prep for the New Jersey Hspa: Language Arts (Test Preps) (Paperback)

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HSPA LANGUAGE ARTS

Review of reading skills
I. Strategies for the Language Arts Section
II. Reading Narrative Text
III. Reading Persuasive Text
This review is designed to prepare you for the Language Arts section of the New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment. The review contains information about the types of passages you will be asked to read and the kinds of questions you will be expected to answer. You will also find tips and strategies to help you answer the questions quickly and accurately. Studying this review, together with taking the two practice tests in this book, will help you develop the skills you need to perform well on the Language Arts section of the HSPA.
Types of Passages
The Language Arts section of the HSPA requires the student to interpret two types of text: narrative and persuasive. Since these types differ in content and require specialized reading skills and approaches, this review provides a section on each type, along with passages, sample questions, and detailed explanations on how to read and answer these practice questions.
Types of Questions
Each section of text in the Language Arts section of the HSPA will be followed by 12 questions. The total number of Language Arts questions is 24. With each type of passage, you will be asked to answer multiple-choice Language Arts questions that require you to have read and fully understood the text.
A smaller group of questions gauges your ability to discuss in writing the issues raised and implied by a text. Open-ended questions require you to read between the lines, working at an inferential level and making
connections between the ideas within the text and relevant ideas outside of the literal text.
Open-ended questions are scored using a point scale running from 0-4. These levels reflect varying degrees of accuracy and completeness. The evaluation of open-ended responses focuses on your thinking ability and your demonstration of a particular level of reading comprehension. A score point of 0 means the response is irrelevant or off-topic. A score point of 1 means the response demonstrates minimal understanding of the task, does not complete the requirements, and uses the text very little or not at all. A score point of 2 means the response may correspond with all the requirements, but with only partial understanding and uses text incorrectly or unsuccessfully, with an inconsistent or flawed explanation. A score point of 3 means the response demonstrates an understanding of the text and completes all requirements while presenting the writer's conclusions or opinions, using examples from the text for support. A grade of 4 demonstrates a clear understanding of the text, completes all requirements, and provides an especially insightful explanation or opinion that builds off of the text. You will find many samples of successful and unsuccessful responses in this book to help you prepare for the open-ended questions.
I. Strategies for the Language Arts Section
Before the test, you should use this plan:
1. Study th