Analyzing Leap 2025 Assessment

Analyzing Leap 2025 Assessment/ Writing Tasks

What is the goal of English Language Arts?

The  goal of English Language Arts is for all students including those who struggle to read, understand, and express understanding of complex, grade-level texts.  

LEAP  2025  ELA  Test  Design

• Research Simulation Task

• Literary Analysis Task

• Narrative Writing Task

• Reading Literary/Informational Texts

Research Simulation Task

• mirrors  the  research  process

• presents three texts on a given topic

• selected response questions

• extended response about some aspect of the related texts (e.g., point of view/purpose, evaluate argument/claims, relationship of idea)

Literary Analysis Task*

• an  opportunity  to  show  their  understanding  of  literature 

• two literary texts

• selected response questions about the texts

• extended response that compares and/or explains key ideas or elements in the texts (e.g., differences in points of view of characters; effect of dialogue or events in passages; analysis of themes, structure)

Narrative Writing Task*

• read literary text

• selected-response questions

• create a narrative related to the text (e.g., finish the story, retell the story in another narrative form or from a different point of view

• Students should make sure that they create narrative, not expository, responses

Read Literary/Informational Texts

• passage  sets  only

• may include fiction (e.g., short stories, novel and drama excerpts, poems)

• May include nonfiction (informational texts from across the disciplines of science, history, and the arts

• ONLY selected response questions about each text

• NO writing in this session

Multiple Select

Which of the following tasks will definitely be on your LEAP 2025 Test?

• Research Simulation Task

• Literary Analysis Task

• Narrative Writing Task

• Reading Literary/Informational Texts

Multiple Select

Which of the following tasks do NOT have an extended response?

• Research Simulation Task

• Literary Analysis Task

• Narrative Writing Task

• Reading Literary/Informational Texts

Multiple Select

Which of the following tasks may or may not be on your LEAP 2025 Test?

• Research Simulation Task

• Literary Analysis Task

• Narrative Writing Task

• Reading Literary/Informational Texts

Test Outline and Time Limits

Scoring for Grade 8 Tasks

Literary Analysis Task/ Research Simulation Task Rubric

Narrative Writing Task Scoring Rubric