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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 - Strategies for Analyzing Words in Texts

Module Three, Being an Active Reader - Strategies for Analyzing Words in Text, will help you to be both a more active reader and an active writer. In these lessons, you will learn more about how to use the practices you have learned to figure out unfamiliar words and language in texts. Active readers and writers know how to use the clues in texts to analyze unfamiliar words. They also know how to look at the structure of words, in order to decide how the parts of words work together to make meaning. Finally, they know how to analyze the way an author uses figurative language to create a special effect in what he or she is writing.