NewsELA 2020 Reading Assessment

NewsELA 2020 Reading Assessment

Multiple Choice

Which question is answered in section “Distance-learning”?

• Why did students learn from home?

• Why had many teachers never taught online?

• Why do students need to eat healthy meals for learning?

• How did families help their students earn good grades?

Multiple Choice

Read the paragraph below from the section "Election."

Which sentence from this paragraph explains WHEN the U.S. election was held?

• The U.S. presidential election was held on November 3.

• Joe Biden, a former vice president, was elected president.

• California Senator Kamala Harris will become the first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president of the United States.

• They will be sworn in on January 20.

Multiple Choice

Which section from the article gives information about statues being removed?

• "COVID-19"

• "Distance-learning"

• "Black Lives Matter Protests"

• "West Coast Fires"

Multiple Choice

What information will the reader find in the section "West Coast Fires"?

• what happened in California

• why there were global protests

• how schools helped students learn

• who is the next president of the United States

Multiple Choice

Read the selection below from the section "Distance-learning."

Which sentence from this selection supports the conclusion that family members also struggled with distance-learning?

• Many families bought desks, supplies, and tried to help students learn at home.

• Some students found that they did not learn well unless they were in a classroom with a teacher.

• Other families found it hard to work and help students learn.

• Some families joined small groups of students and tutors.

Multiple Choice

Read the section "Election."

Which sentence from this section supports the conclusion that many people cast votes in the 2020 U.S. presidential election?

• The U.S. presidential election was held on November 3.

• Several states needed time to count those mailed-in votes.

• Joe Biden, former vice president under President Barack Obama, became president-elect.

• They will be sworn-in on January 20.

Multiple Choice

The section “Distance-learning” is mostly organized using problem and solution.

WHY do you think the author chose to organize the information this way?

• Distance-learning had challenges that people had to overcome.

• Distance-learning was really hard for students to understand.

• Distance-learning was an effect of the changes happening in 2020.

• Distance-learning happened to protect students from COVID-19.

Multiple Choice

How is the structure of the section “Black Lives Matter Protests” similar to the structure of the section “West Coast Fires”?

• Both explain a situation and then how people responded to it.

• Both express the worry people felt during these events.

• Both describe a state record that was achieved.

• Both give examples of people who lost their lives.