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These items offer a shared reference point for understanding proficiency expectations, complementing the assessment's role in measuring learning. By analyzing items alongside performance data, educators can gain a deeper understanding of students' strengths and areas for growth. Students thrive in environments rich with diverse materials, challenges that vary in task type, and multiple avenues for demonstrating understanding. High-quality instruction, aligned with the learning goals, is the most effective way to support students' growth and prepare them for success.  \nENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS SAMPLE ITEMS  \nGRADES 9-11  \nThe ACT® English language arts (ELA) score measures overall performance on the ACT English, reading, and writing tests. The ELA score weights the English, reading, and writing scores approximately equally and is therefore reported only for students who take all three tests.  \nThe sample items below correspond to skills and knowledge expected at each performance level as described in the ELA performance level descriptors.  \n\n| \u003Cbr>Grades 9-11 – Reading |\n| --- |\n| THE ACT READING CONTENT DESCRIPTION\u003Cbr>Item tally and time:\u003Cbr>The ACT reading test is a 40-item, 35-minute test.\u003Cbr>Concept:\u003Cbr>The test measures a student's ability to read closely, reason about texts using evidence, and integrate information from multiple sources.\u003Cbr>Knowledge and skills tested:\u003Cbr>The test measures knowledge areas and related skills reflected in the reporting categories for this test (further described in a table on the next page):\u003Cbr>• Key Ideas and Details: Students read texts closely to determine central ideas and themes; summarize information and ideas accurately; and read closely to understand relationships and draw logical inferences and conclusions, including understanding sequential, comparative, and cause-effect relationships.\u003Cbr>• Craft and Structure: Students determine word and phrase meanings, analyze an author’s word choice rhetorically, analyze text structure,\u003Cbr>understand authorial purpose and perspective, and analyze characters’ points of view. They interpret authorial decisions rhetorically and differentiate between various perspectives and sources of information.\u003Cbr>• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Students understand authors’ claims, differentiate between facts and opinions, and use evidence to make connections between different texts that are related by topic. 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