English+Placement+Test

Please post any resources for the CSU/CCC and UC English Placement Tests here.

In order to get students motivated about college readiness, I play a clip from this radio program (it starts around 22:47 and goes for about five minutes) that focuses on college readiness rates at community colleges, specifically focusing on Latinos. media type="file" key="marketplace_cast1_20100108_64.mp3" width="240" height="20" (Sue Andres-Brown)

This year I used it as part of this PowerPoint presentation: (Sue Andres-Brown) =__California State University/California Community Colleges English Placement Test__= From the ERWC training, provided by Xiomara Melendez of CSUDH:

Essay


This template for students to use in constructing argument essays in response to a text; it would be ideal to start using this with 9th and 10th grade students. Originally created by Terry Vorwald. (Sue Andres-Brown) Somewhere, I have hard copies of sample essays for this prompt. (Sue Andres-Brown)

Multiple-Choice
This is a list of questions to use with any short text to help prepare students for the EPT reading comprehension questions--I believe it was originally created by Terry Vorwald and may have been modified by me. (Sue Andres-Brown) This is a formative assessment for reading comprehension skills created by Terry Vorwald for the English 11 PLC. (Sue Andres-Brown) This is a formative assessment for missing sentences created by Glenda Watanabe for the English 11 PLC. (Sue Andres-Brown) This is a vocabulary handout to help students prepare for the logical relationships component of the EPT. (Sue Andres-Brown) This is a formative assessment for logical relationships created for the English 11 PLC. (Sue Andres-Brown) =__University of California English Placement Test__=