The "Reading Narrative Text" portion of the HSPA Language Arts test uses a narrative writing sample to prompt student critical thinking, analysis, and writing. 

What strategies might you present to your students in order to help them become more critical and observant readers?

For this assignment, you must complete two specific tasks related to preparing your students for the "Reading Narrative Text" portion of the HSPA:

• Identify and summarize strategies for critically reading text and identifying key items in a given passage using a checklist or mind-map

• Identify one narrative reading prompt and create appropriate multiple-choice and open-ended questions to be used by your students to practice applying the strategies you identified

The following checklist will be used to score this Cluster 4 assignment:

1. The narrative writing piece selected is contemporary or classic.

2. The piece ends with a lesson or a triumph of human nature, or includes as part of the conflict challenges of the human condition.

3. Practice prompt directions are clearly worded.

4. The directions include a scoring rubric based on the HSPA persuasive/narrative reading scoring rubric.

5. The prompt includes references to your strategies to be used to facilitate the creative writing process.

6. A sample response to each prompt is included that adheres to a "high" score of 3 or 4 on the holistic scoring rubric.