PSSA Reading and Core Skills Writing
PSSA Reading resource guides offer teachers the opportunity to reinforce important skills while seamlessly integrating test preparation. Each guide includes reading practices in the PSSA style and format with correlations to the both the Pennsylvania Standards of School Assessment and the Common Core State Standards. Core Skills Writing guides supplement our PSSA resources with additional practice specific to writing and editing skills. Each writing guide includes correlations to the Common Core State Standards for all multiple-choice questions.
PSSA Reading guides include:
- 6 selected passages from the literary work, each followed by:
- 9 multiple-choice questions
- 1 open-ended question
- A passage from the literary work paired with a thematically-related nonfiction piece, and a visual/graphic, followed by
- Approximately 18 multiple-choice questions
- 3 open-ended questions
- Detailed answer explanations
- Correlations to the PSSA and Common Core State Standards for all multiple-choice questions
- Charts for tracking student progress
Core Writing resource guides include:
- 6 student essays related to the literary work, followed by 10 multiple-choice editing questions for per essay
- 7 essay prompts related to the literary work
- Detailed answer explanations
- Correlations to the Common Core State Standards for all multple-choice questions
Six major skills are addressed in these writing guides: sentence structure and clarity, usage, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and organization/transition.