NJSLA Basics
These are the tasks that you must be familiar with for the NJSLA.
What are the RST, Literary Analysis, and Narrative tasks?
These are the number of sources that appear on the Research Simulation task.
What are three sources?
True or false:
You should write in conclusion in the body paragraphs of an essay.
FALSE!!
What kind of prompt is this: You have read three sources about different types of renewable energy and their role in reducing carbon emissions.
Write an informative essay explaining how renewable energy sources can help solve environmental problems. Use information from all three sources to support your explanation. Be sure to integrate and cite evidence effectively.
What is Research Simulation Task
What strategy can you use while reading to make notes to help you understand?
What is annotating?
This NJSLA task is concerned with you synthesizing findings of nonfiction texts.
What is the Research Simulation task?
These are the number of sources you are required to use in your essay for the LAT.
What are two?
Unlike the RST which does not use these sources, these types of sources will appear on a Literary Analysis Task.
What are fictional texts?
This, which is usually found in the last sentence of the introductory paragraph, is a term used to describe the main or central idea of your argument for both the RST and the Literary Analysis task.
What is the thesis statement?
What does process of elimination mean?
Cross out answers you know are wrong.
This NJSLA task is concerned with you understanding and creating a story.
What is the Narrative task?
The Research Simulation Task will ask you to read and synthesize only these types of texts.
What are nonfiction or informational texts?
Perspective in which a character or narrator Is speaking
What is point of view?
Which type of prompt is this?
Write an essay analyzing how each character responds to adversity. Compare and contrast how the authors use literary elements such as character development, conflict, and theme to portray resilience. Use evidence from both texts to support your analysis.
What a literary analysis?
What do you need to put after your text evidence to show where you found it?
Citation
This NJSLA task is concerned with you interpreting the meaning of fictional texts?
What is the Literary Analysis Task?
What would a possible thesis be for this prompt?
Write an essay for your school newspaper arguing whether playing video games significantly affects physical health. Your essay must be based on the ideas, concepts, and information that can be determined through analysis of the “Do Video Games Have a Major Effect on Players’ Physical Health?” sources.
Possible Thesis
Video games have a major effect on players' physical health.
In literature, this refers to the major issue or problem that characters in a story must overcome.
What is the conflict?
What kind of prompt is this? After reading a passage continue the events of the passage. Use the same point of view, style, and tone as the original text. Develop the plot, characters, and setting with descriptive details and clear event sequencing.
What is Narrative Writing?
Under what circumstance should you change your answers on a reading question?
Only if you find new information
How do you make sure you support or prove all of your ideas?
Include textual evidence
These are two common mistakes students make when answering reading comprehension
Not reading all answer choices
Not reading the question completely
In literature, this refers to the message of the story.
What is theme?
These are three possible things you may be asked to do for the Narrative Writing Task.
What are continue the story, create an alternate ending, or change the POV?
To ensure your success on the NJSLA, if you are finished early, you can do this to make sure you have completed each question to the best of your ability.
What is proofreading and reviewing your answers.