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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 Writer - Writing an Essay

Module Two, Being an Active Writer - Writing an Essay, will help you to be a more active writer, whether you are writing for your job, for school, for pleasure, or for a test. An active writer is someone who thinks about his or her purpose for writing and generates ideas for writing. An active writer is someone who thinks about how to organize the essay, how to know the audience and be aware of who will be reading his or her writing, and how to revise or change ideas and edit the writing so that it will be clear for a reader. An active writer makes predictions, asks questions, notices details, and uses evidence to support what he or she wants to say, just as an active reader does.

In Module Two, the three lessons will help you learn how all of these active writing strategies can help you to write a clear, well-organized essay.