NCS Mentor for VA Scoring Practice

Grade 8 -Practice Set 1

Paper 1

My Score: Composing/ Written Expression _________ Usage and Mechanics________

Assigned Score: Composing/ Written Expression _________ Usage and Mechanics________

Paper 2

My Score: Composing/ Written Expression _________ Usage and Mechanics________

Assigned Score: Composing/ Written Expression _________ Usage and Mechanics________

Paper 3

My Score: Composing/ Written Expression _________ Usage and Mechanics________

Assigned Score: Composing/ Written Expression _________ Usage and Mechanics________

Paper 4

My Score: Composing/ Written Expression _________ Usage and Mechanics________

Assigned Score: Composing/ Written Expression _________ Usage and Mechanics________

Paper 5

My Score: Composing/ Written Expression _________ Usage and Mechanics________

Diagnostic Reading Test

Diagnostic Reading Test

Part 1: http://www.readingsoft.com/

                                 Write your score on a piece of paper.

Part 2: http://www.readingsoft.com/quiz.html
                                  Write your score on the same sheet of paper.


Part 3: http://diagnostics.aceministries.com/

Writing TEI Practice- STAR

TEI Practice

http://star.spsk12.net/english/8/TEI/Quiz1/quiz.html

Essay Writing

Respond to the following prompt.

     The school board plans to add one and a half hours to school 
each day. Do you agree or disagree with extending the school day? Use specific details and examples to convince the school board to accept your position.

December 5, 2013

Directions: Use your own paper to record your answers for ALL of the activities below.

A. Diagram the following sentences. 

1. Act quickly

2. The car stalls frequently.

3. Both Dexter and his friends competed relentlessly.

4. The student wrote flawlessly but talked incessantly.

5. The wise professor thought very deeply.

B. Go to this website to learn more about sentence diagramming.

http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=WCN8207

http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=WCN8207

C. Complete the following subject/verb agreement activities

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/agreement_add1.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/agreement_add2.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/agreement_add3.htm

http://www.eslcafe.com/quiz/sva1.html 

November 26, 2013

TEI Video  Demonstration
http://vaassessments.com/v/WritingDemo/

Writing Practice Tool
https://vastatic.testnav.com/vatrngqc/testnav-7.5.18.16/epatLogin.jsp?testnavTestId=8115&testnavFormId=Practice%20Test

Stand Alone Items Guide
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/practice_items/sample_excerpts_reading-writing.pdf

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Today, we will continue to work on identifying subjects and predicates.

Click on the following links to reveal the activity.

Use your own paper to complete each activity.

1. http://englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Complete%20Subjects%20and%20Predicates.pdf

2. http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Simple%20Subjects%20and%20Predicates.pdf

Welcome!

Today you will review subjects and predicates.

Part 1 Use your own paper to complete the following activities.

Name _________________________________ Period _________ Date ____________

Subjects and Predicates

A. Directions: In the blank before each of the following sentences, write “S” if the underlined word

or group of words is the subject; write “P” if it is the predicate. You do not have to write the sentences for this.

1. _____ Kathy and Joe have known each other for years.

2. _____ They played tag in the school yard.

3. _____ A favorite game of theirs was baseball.

4. _____ The two friends were often captains of the opposing teams.

5. _____ Would you believe they never fought over the games?

Directions: In the following sentences, underline the complete subject once and the complete

predicate twice. In order to do this, you will need to copy the sentences for this activity.

6. Joe and Kathy were in many of the same classes in middle school and high school.

7. One of their favorite classes was band.

8. They were not in the same sections in band, though.

9. The younger of the two was Kathy.

10. Joe often acted much younger than Kathy, though.

11. Teachers at their school enjoyed having the two in class together.

12. They remained close friends all through high school.

13. Their choices in colleges separated them.

14. Joe went to school in a college in another state.

15. Kathy chose to go to college close to home.