The FSA is a Computer-Based Longitudinal Assessment System for College and Career Readiness. The students will face a variety of new technology-enhanced questions as a part of the computer-based tests.
Some of them are Multiple choice-single correct responses, Multiple choice-multiple correct responses, Matching Tables, Drag and Drop, Hot text, Table Fill in, Graphing, Equation/numeric, Extended constructed response, Short answer, and many more.
Today, we will share several sample questions along with practice test links for grade 7 English Language Arts that gives you an idea of questions that your students are likely to see on the test. After each sample question, an explanation follows that includes any important aspects of the task that you may need to consider with respect to the skills, processes, and information your students need to know.
Domain: Grade 7 >> Reading Standards for Literature
Sample Question: Which excerpt from the text provides the reason the Emperor agreed to buy clothes from the swindlers?
- Not only were the colors and patterns unusually fine, but the clothes that were made of the stuffs had the peculiar quality of becoming invisible to every person who was not fit for the office he held, or if he was impossibly dull.
- Life was very gay in the great town where he lived; hosts of strangers came to visit it every day, and among them one day two swindlers. They gave themselves out as weavers, and said that they knew how to weave the most beautiful stuffs imaginable.
- At the outset they asked for a quantity of the finest silk and the purest gold thread, all of which they put into their own bags, while they worked away at the empty looms far into the night.
- ‘I know I am not a fool!’ thought the man, ‘so it must be that I am unfit for my good post! It is very strange, though! However, one must not let it appear!’ So he praised the stuff he did not see, and assured them of his delight in the beautiful colours and the originality of the design.
Answer Explanation: Answer choice one is the correct answer. The passage explains that the swindlers (dishonest people) told the Emperor that if a person was wise, and worthy of their job/status, they would be able to see the fabric/costumes. But, the men never intended to make any clothes. No one was willing to admit that they saw no clothes because they did not want to appear to be unworthy. It took a child, who did not know to hide what he saw, to point out the obvious.
The remaining three answers describe the swindlers (2 and 3) and what an official thought upon seeing the “clothes.” They do not answer the question: why did the Emperor agree to hire the men (swindlers).
Standards: LAFS.7.RL.2.6
Click here to practice: Reading Standards for Literature Questions on 7th Grade
Domain: Grade 7 >> Reading Standards for Informational Text
Sample Question: In the Class Novel section of your Reader’s Notebook:
· Make a list of the most important characters in Someone Was Watching.
· Make a list of the most important characters in the AR book you’re reading.
· Compare a character from each novel. Describe how the characters are alike. Be specific.
For example:
I’m reading a novel called Mockingjay. Katniss (the main character) is like Chris because they are both trying to protect someone they love. Katniss is trying to make the world a safer place and is not sure who she can trust. Chris is searching for the truth about his sister’s disappearance, and is not sure who he can trust.
What is the reader supposed to do with the characters from Someone Was Watching?
- make a list of books read
- make a list of important characters
- make a list characters in their own novel
- make a list of items left to do
Answer Explanation: Answer choice two is the best answer. The directions ask the student to make two lists. One of important characters in the novel Someone Was Watching and their own novel. The question asks what they were to do with the novel Someone Was Watching.
Standards: LAFS.7.RI.2.4
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Domain: Grade 7 >> Writing Standards
Sample Question: Which paragraph of an essay should the thesis statement appear in?
- The introductory paragraph
- The second paragraph
- The fourth paragraph
- The conclusion
Answer Explanation: Answer choice one is the correct answer. The thesis statement, the main point or belief, should be somewhere in the first paragraph. It should be in the first paragraph because the remaining paragraphs are to explain, prove or support your thesis/belief statement. Often it is the last sentence.
Standards: W.7.1.A
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Domain: Grade 7 >> Language Standards
Sample Question: Which of the following adjectives fits best in the blank in this sentence?
After the double header game, the _________________ baseball players devoured the spaghetti dinner prepared by the team captain’s parents.
- nervous
- ashamed
- famished
- cheerful
Answer Explanation: Answer choice three is correct. The word (famished) modifies or explains the player (baseball also modifies player).
Standards: L.7.1
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