English Language study guides

A complete overview of exam strategy for Ohio's State Test for English Language Arts II: the two-part structure, the technology-enhanced item types, pacing the test, reading the prompt and the rubric, and the five performance levels and graduation competency. How the five skills connect and how to study them.

A complete overview of language and vocabulary on Ohio's State Test for English Language Arts II: vocabulary in context, word parts, denotation and connotation and figurative meaning, grammar and usage conventions, and punctuation and sentence structure. How the five skills connect, and how they feed both the reading items and the extended-response conventions score.

A complete overview of reading informational texts on Ohio's State Test for English Language Arts II: central ideas, analyzing argument and claims, author's purpose and rhetoric, text structure and organization, text evidence and inference, and comparing and synthesizing paired texts. How the six skills connect and how to study them.

A complete overview of reading literature on Ohio's State Test for English Language Arts II: theme and central idea, plot and conflict and structure, character and point of view, figurative language and devices, reading poetry, and comparing two literary texts. How the six skills connect and how to study them for unseen passages.

A complete overview of revising and editing on Ohio's State Test for English Language Arts II: revising for clarity and organization, editing for grammar and usage, sentence boundaries and combining, word choice and precision, and the revising and editing item types. How the five skills connect and how to study them.

A complete overview of the extended response on Ohio's State Test for English Language Arts II: what the source-based essay is, analyzing the prompt and mode, writing a claim or controlling idea, using text evidence, developing and organizing the response, and Ohio's grades 6-12 writing rubric. How the six skills connect and how to study them.