How to Prepare for the CAHSEE-English Language Arts: California High School Exit Exam

California high school students and teachers will find in-depth preparation in this manual for the statewide English Language Arts Exam. Detailed review chapters cover all exam topics and include a short quiz to test students’ command of each chapter’s content. The topics are: Word analysis, fluency, and systematic vocabulary development in three progressive sections; reading comprehension in two sections; literary response and analysis in two sections; written and oral language conventions in two sections; writing strategies; and writing applications, the last dealing with different approaches to writing essays for different purposes. A full-length double-session practice exam is presented, complete with answers and a scoring guide to its literary response question.