LOUISIANA TEST PREP English Language Arts Writing Workbook Grade 7

Preparation for the LEAP 2025 English Language Arts Assessment for 2017-2018!

This workbook provides extensive guided practice with a complete range of writing tasks, and will prepare students for the more rigorous reading and writing tasks on the LEAP 2025 English Language Arts assessments. Full Coverage of Louisiana's English Language Arts Standards
- Covers all the types of writing in the state standards, including arguments, informative/explanatory texts, and narratives
- Includes exercises for additional writing skills, including completing research projects and gathering information from sources
- Provides extensive practice writing in response to literary and informational texts

Preparation for the LEAP 2025 English Language Arts (ELA) Assessments
- Helps students gain the skills and experience needed for the LEAP 2025 tests
- Provides practice writing in response to passages
- Prepares students for narrative writing tasks
- Guided tasks teach students how to write effective essays and narratives
- Provides extensive experience providing written answers to reading comprehension questions
- Builds higher-order thinking skills such as analyzing and evaluating texts
- Develops the strong reading comprehension skills needed for the new assessments

Provides Ongoing Skill Development and Practice
- Ten convenient practice sets allow for ongoing skill development
- Each practice set contains two reading comprehension tasks where students write in response to passages
- Each practice set contains two writing tasks where students write a short story, personal narrative, argument, or essay
- Guided writing tasks include hints, planning activities, and review checklists to guide students and encourage strong skill development
- Each set includes additional core skills exercises that focus on key writing skills

Key Benefits of this Workbook
- Flexible format allows practice sets to be completed to suit any schedule
- Helps students transition to the more rigorous state assessments
- Develops the writing skills that are emphasized by the state standards
- More rigorous tasks encourage deeper understanding and more advanced thinking
- Tips, planning, and review activities teach the key features expected of student writing
- Format allows for review after each set to provide feedback and promote improvement