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Welcome to CAHSEE English Language Arts: Stepping Into Your Future. We know your goal is to pass the CAHSEE. Our goal is to help you do this.

In order to pass the CAHSEE, as well as other English Language Arts tests, and to use what you learn here in your future school or work, you will need to become an active reader, writer, and test taker.

In this course, each module consists of a series of interactive lessons and related activities that will help you learn practices (actions you can take) for being a more active reader, writer, and test taker.

To learn more about what we mean by being an active reader, writer, and test taker, click on the resource below.

Be sure to take the English Language Arts Pre-Assessment first. Click on English Pre-Assessment below. How you do on this assessment will help you to know the areas where you are strongest as well as the areas where you need additional help. When you are done with all of the modules, be sure to take the English Post-Assessment. Then you will be able to see how you have grown as an active test taker in English Language Arts.

Click on Module One, Being an Active Reader, to get started with the course.

1. Being an Active Reader
2. Being an Active Writer - Writing an Essay
3. Being an Active Reader - Strategies for Analyzing Words in Texts

Being an Active Reader - Start here!

MODULE ONE, Being an Active Reader, will help you to be a more active reader, whether you are reading an article, job application, story, or doing a test item. An active reader is someone who thinks while he or she is reading. Active readers make predictions with text as well as ask questions about text. You will learn how all of these active reading strategies will help you to pay attention to and better understand what you are reading. Each of the three lessons in Module One also has a special section on using active reading strategies when taking tests so that you can be an active test taker as well as an active reader.