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SAT & PARCC Literacy Assessment Resources 

For students to be prepared for any summative exam, practitioners working with high school students need to utilize the Illinois Learning Standards throughout the year.  These standards are assessed in SAT and PARCC.  Both practice materials can support the high school teacher and student for college and career readiness.

SAT Overview and Practice Test

• SAT Resources
• Daily Practice App
• Practice with Khan Academy ​
• Teacher Implementation Guide   (PDF) ​​This Teacher Implementation Guide contains instructional strategies, rubrics, samples, scoring information and more.

Ninth Grade​

Tenth Grade​

PARCC 2015 Ninth Grade Sample Items
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• Sample Literary Text Tasks
  • Sample Literary Analysis Task and Sample Student Responses                                   
  • Sample Literary Text Tasks (Text Set Example) 
  • Sample Paired Text Tasks
  • Sample Narrative Tasks 
• Sample Informational Tasks
  • Informational Tasks (Short to Medium Length)​
• Sample Research Simulation Tasks and Sample Student Responses​ 
• ​Sample Student Responses for Conventions (from all 3 released items)

PARCC 2015 Tenth Grade Sample Items
Some of the passages you will see are in a very small font. This is due to the process of rendering an online item into a PDF format. Please zoom in for better viewing.

• ​Sample Literary Text Tasks
  • Sample Literary Analysis Task and Sample Student Responses 
  • Sample Literary Text Tasks (Text Set Example)
  • ​Sample Narrative Tasks and Sample Student Responses
• Sample Informational Tasks 
  • Informational Task (Short-Medium Length) Text Set Example  
  • Informational Task (Medium-Long Length) ​
  • Paired Texts Text Set Example
• Sample Research Simulation Tasks 
• ​Sample Student Responses for Conventions (from all 3 released items)

Ninth- Tenth Grade ​Resources to Assist with Creating Instructional Tasks

• Ninth Grade Writing Rubrics (not for grading purposes in the classroom)
• Tenth Grade Writing Rubrics (not for grading purposes in the classroom)
• ​PARCC Task Models:  Task Details for Grades 9-11​