The LEAP is a Computer-Based Longitudinal Assessment System for College and Career Readiness. The students will face a variety of new technology-enhanced questions as a part of the computer-based tests.
Some of them are Multiple choice-single correct responses, Multiple choice-multiple correct responses, Matching Tables, Drag and Drop, Hot text, Table Fill in, Graphing, Equation/numeric, Extended constructed response, Short answer, and many more.
Today, we will share several sample questions along with practice test links for Grade 7 English Language Arts that gives you an idea of questions that your students are likely to see on the test. After each sample question, an explanation follows that includes any important aspects of the task that you may need to consider with respect to the skills, processes, and information your students need to know.
Domain: Grade 7 >> Reading: Literature
Sample Question:
Some boys, beside a pond or lake,
Were playing once at duck and drake?
When, doubtless to their heart’s content,
Volleys of stones were quickly sent.
But there were some (there will be such)
Who did not seem amused so much;
These were the frogs, to whom the game,
In point of sport was not the same.
For scarce a stone arrived, ’tis said,
But gave some frog a broken head;
And scores in less than half an hour,
Perished beneath the dreadful shower.
At last, said one, “You silly folks, I say,
Do fling your stones another way;
Though sport to you, to throw them thus,
Remember, pray, ’tis death to us!”
The poem takes place next to a pond or lake, but WHEN does it occur?
- in the morning
- the reader is not sure
- in the fall
- in the spring
Answer Explanation: The first lines of the poem tell the reader that this occurs by a pond or a lake, but there is NO mention of time of day or year.
Standards: RL.7.3
Click here to practice: Reading: Literature Questions on 7th Grade
Domain: Grade 7 >> Reading: Informational Text
Sample Question: Which sentence contains coordinate adjectives?
- The loud African parrot squawked at me.
- Angry, frustrated customers stormed the store.
- The sleepy little baby rubbed his eyes.
- Adorable baby jaguars ran around at the zoo.
Answer Explanation: Answer choice two is correct. Commas go between coordinate adjectives. Since you can place an “and” between angry and frustrated, they are coordinate adjectives.
Standards: RI.7.7
Click here to practice: Grade 7 Reading: Informational Text Questions
Domain: Grade 7 >> Writing
Sample Question: Skunks are omnivores meaning that they eat both plants and animals. They can be found eating nuts, berries, roots, leaves, grasses and even some types of fungi (mushroom-like plants). For animals, they enjoy dining on rodents such as mice and rats, insects, earthworms, frogs, lizards, toads and birds. Sometimes when they are unable to find live animals to eat they become scavengers eating dead animals left behind. When they live close to people’s homes, skunks sometimes will even get into trash cans eating garbage.
Which word does the writer need to define to help the reader better understand the paragraph?
- omnivores
- fungi
- scavengers
- rodents
Answer Explanation: Answer choice one is the correct answer. If the reader is not clear on what an omnivore is, then he/she cannot fully understand the remaining part of the passage.
Standards: W.7.2.D
Click here to practice: 7th Grade Writing Questions
Domain: Grade 7 >> Language
Sample Question: After working in the yard mowing and planting shrubs for eight hours in the hot sun, Doreen decided to call it a day.
What is the meaning of the underlined figure of speech?
- go to bed
- stop working
- talk to a friend on the phone
- watch the sun set
Answer Explanation: Answer choice two is correct. This is a common idiom that means to decide the work day is complete.
Standards: L.7.5
Click here to practice: Language Questions for 7th Grade
