1. INTEGRATING SAT/ACT ELA AND THE COMMON CORE

2. Overview of SAT and ACT

3. ACT English SAT Writing & Language
45 minutes
5 passages
15 questions per passage
75 questions
SAT
Writing & Language
35 minutes
4 passages
11 questions per passage
44 questions

4. ACT English SAT Writing & Language
45 minutes
5 passages
15 questions per passage
75 questions
Conventions of Standard English (51-56%)
SAT
Writing & Language
35 minutes
4 passages
11 questions per passage
44 questions
Standard English Conventions (45%)

5. ACT English SAT Writing & Language
45 minutes
5 passages
15 questions per passage
75 questions
Conventions of Standard English (51-56%)
Rhetorical Skills (44-49%)
SAT
Writing & Language
35 minutes
4 passages
11 questions per passage
44 questions
Standard English Conventions (45%)
Expression of Ideas (55%)

6. ACT Reading SAT Reading
35 minutes
4 passages
10 questions per passage
40 questions
One Passage will be a
“double-passage”
SAT
Reading
65 minutes
5 passages
10-11 questions per passage
52 questions
One Passage will be a
“double-passage”

7. ACT Reading SAT Reading
35 minutes
4 passages
10 questions per passage
40 questions
One Passage will be a
“double-passage”
SAT
Reading
65 minutes
5 passages
10-11 questions per passage
52 questions
One Passage will be a
“double-passage”
Informational graphics, such as tables, graphs, and charts, accompany some passages

8. ACT Reading SAT Reading
words per passage
Prose Fiction
Social Science
Humanities
Natural Science
SAT
Reading
words per passage
Fiction
History/Social Studies
Science
*One passage or a pair of passages is a U.S. founding document or a text in the great global conversation they inspired.

9. English Grammar

10. Grammar rules
Parts of speech

11. Grammar rules
Parts of speech
Phrases and Clauses

12. Grammar rules
Parts of speech
Phrases and Clauses
Commas

13. Grammar rules Parts of speech Phrases and Clauses Commas
Other Punctuation

14. Question Types

15. What’s it about?

16. EXPLICIT QUESTIONS
According to the passage, how did Phillip feel about the movie Blade Runner?
The narrator explicitly declines to take a firm stand on which of the following issues?
Which of the following qualities does the author NOT attribute to cork?
The authors indicate that people value gift-giving because it…
According to the passage, Woolf chooses the setting of the bridge because it...

17. Inferential QUESTIONS
Based on the passage, with which of the following statements would Sontag most likely agree?
The authors would likely attribute the differences in gift-giver and recipient to which of the following:
It can be reasonably inferred that the phrase pivotal moment in likes most nearly refers to a moment of:
It can be reasonably inferred that Tiny Tim gives away all of his toys because:
In the passage, the author anticipates which of the following objections to criticizing the ethics of free markets?

18. Main Idea What is the primary purpose of the final paragraph?
The author would most likely agree with which of the following statements:
The essential claim of the passage is that…
The sixth paragraph is primarily concerned with…
Which choice best describes what happens in the passage?
The passage can be described primarily as…

19. Vocab-in-context As it is used in line 2, “form” most nearly means…
As used in line 1 and line 65, “directly” most nearly means…
As used in line 19, “capture” is closest in meaning to…
As used in line 58, “demands” most nearly means…
As it is used in line 81, the phrase “speak to” most nearly means…

20. Vocab-in-context example2
Vocab-in-context example
As used in line 68, “hold” most nearly means
A) maintain.
B) grip.
C) restrain.
D) withstand.
…Part of this is about principles. Some will argue that space’s “magnificent desolation” is not ours to despoil, just as they argue that our own planet’s poles should remain pristine. Others will suggest that glutting ourselves on space’s riches is not an acceptable alternative to developing more sustainable ways of earthly life.
History suggests that those will be hard lines to hold, and it may be difficult to persuade the public that such environments are worth preserving… 68

21. strategy
The authors use of the words “exact,” “specific,” and “complement” in lines functions mainly to…
Which of the following phrases best describes what the last paragraph adds to the passage?
The author’s use of quotations in line 43 indicates…
The authors most likely use the examples in lines 1-9 in the passage to highlight…
The authors refer to the work by Camerer and others (line 56) in order to…

22. Evidence
Make them provide evidence!

23. Creating Questions

24. III
Wrong Answers
Random
False
Irrelevant

25. Wrong Answers III Random
The choice talks about things that the passage doesn’t even mention.

26. Wrong Answers III False
The choice is explicitly contradicted by the passage.

27. Wrong Answers III Irrelevant
The choice is something the author says, but it doesn’t actually answer the question.

28. 2
It can be inferred that the “anachronism” mentioned in line 3 results from the fact that
A) computer science advanced at a greater rate than astronomy.
B) predecessors of modern PC’s were unavailable in
C) Henrietta Swan Leavitt made one of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy.
D) a common word is being used in a different sense.
One of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy was made by a computer in This may sound like an anachronism; computing machines of the early twentieth century, predecessors of our modern PC’s, were nowhere near advanced enough to be making discoveries. However, this “computer” was not a machine at all, but a woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt. 5

29. 2
It can be inferred that the “anachronism” mentioned in line 3 results from the fact that
A) computer science advanced at a greater rate than astronomy. RANDOM
B) predecessors of modern PC’s were unavailable in
C) Henrietta Swan Leavitt made one of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy.
D) a common word is being used in a different sense.
One of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy was made by a computer in This may sound like an anachronism; computing machines of the early twentieth century, predecessors of our modern PC’s, were nowhere near advanced enough to be making discoveries. However, this “computer” was not a machine at all, but a woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt. 5

30. 2
It can be inferred that the “anachronism” mentioned in line 3 results from the fact that
A) computer science advanced at a greater rate than astronomy. RANDOM
B) predecessors of modern PC’s were unavailable in FALSE
Henrietta Swan Leavitt made one of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy.
a common word is being used in a different sense.
One of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy was made by a computer in This may sound like an anachronism; computing machines of the early twentieth century, predecessors of our modern PC’s, were nowhere near advanced enough to be making discoveries. However, this “computer” was not a machine at all, but a woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt. 5

31. 2
It can be inferred that the “anachronism” mentioned in line 3 results from the fact that
A) computer science advanced at a greater rate than astronomy. RANDOM
B) predecessors of modern PC’s were unavailable in FALSE
C) Henrietta Swan Leavitt made one of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy. IRRELEVANT
D) a common word is being used in a different sense.
One of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy was made by a computer in This may sound like an anachronism; computing machines of the early twentieth century, predecessors of our modern PC’s, were nowhere near advanced enough to be making discoveries. However, this “computer” was not a machine at all, but a woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt. 5

32. 2
It can be inferred that the “anachronism” mentioned in line 3 results from the fact that
A) computer science advanced at a greater rate than astronomy. RANDOM
B) predecessors of modern PC’s were unavailable in FALSE
C) Henrietta Swan Leavitt made one of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy. IRRELEVANT
D) a common word is being used in a different sense.
One of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy was made by a computer in This may sound like an anachronism; computing machines of the early twentieth century, predecessors of our modern PC’s, were nowhere near advanced enough to be making discoveries. However, this “computer” was not a machine at all, but a woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt. 5

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