The 2007 PSSA Reading, Mathematics, and Writing Item and Scoring Samplers are tools to assist you with your instructional program and the reading, mathematics, and writing assessments. The samplers include test items written to focus on the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for writing and the Pennsylvania Assessment Anchor Content Standards (Assessment Anchors) for reading and mathematics. The items in the samplers will not appear on any operational form of the 2007 PSSA; however, they do provide examples of the types of items that will appear on the 2007 reading, mathematics, and writing assessments.
The links below provide access to the following Adobe Portable document format (PDF) files:
Grade 3 Reading Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 3 Mathematics Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 4 Reading Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 4 Mathematics Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 5 Reading Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 5 Mathematics Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 5 Writing Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 6 Reading Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 6 Mathematics Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 7 Reading Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 7 Mathematics Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 8 Reading Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 8 Mathematics Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 8 Writing Item/Scoring Sampler
Grade 11 Reading Item Sampler and Scoring
Guide
Grade 11 Math Item Sampler and Scoring Guide
Grade 11 Writing Item and Scoring Sampler