CMAS grade 8 English practice
Practice for Colorado's spring state English language arts test, with the longer texts and evidence questions your child will see in middle school.
What grade 8 practice covers
Longer stories and articles, sometimes a pair of texts or three sources on one topic, with questions on how a theme develops, how dialogue and events reveal a character, where two texts on one topic disagree, whether an argument's evidence is enough, word meaning, and the evidence for an answer.
- Passage sets with question types from the state test: pick one, pick two, and two-part questions where Part B is a quote from the text.
- Three units: a story, an article, and a pair of texts or three articles on one topic, each with its own practice clock.
- Some articles have section headings and notes on hard words, as in longer texts on the state test.
- Results by area after the test, and a plain explanation for each question your child missed.