CAASPP ELA

Welcome to Albert's California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (ELA) course!

This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's CAASPP ELA prep course, including how it is organized, what standards it is aligned to, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

For testing information or details about the exam itself, visit the California Department of Education.

Albert's CAASPP ELA course is organized into themes and further broken into short, formative assessments on specific topics.

Our full subject guide includes 2 themes that align with the different Claims assessed on the exam:

Our topic quiz theme contains a set of short, formative topic quizzes. Each topic quiz is designed to be given in a single class period. The quiz questions mimic the rigor and format of the actual exam. For example, here are some topic quizzes for Claim 2.

Our Performance Tasks present students with a single, real-life scenario that requires students to synthesize multiple sources of information, critically analyze, and develop an extended response to a real-world problem.

Every question is aligned to the standards outlined in the California Common Core English Language Arts Standards. Each standard begins with the state abbreviation CA.

You can find questions aligned to learning standards using our standards search tool. In the Standards drop-down at the top of the Assessments tab, you can search for standards by name (for example, CA 11-12.RI.1) or description. When you type in characters that match one of the standards, the drop-down will populate with matching standards.

In addition to standards, each question is assigned one or more tags to help differentiate between the wide variety of questions we offer. Each question in this course is tagged by claim, depth-of-knowledge, and assessment target. For example, you could search for "claim-1" within tags and find results for all questions in the course that assess Claim 1- Reading.

To search for a tag, click the Tags drop-down within the subject and enter the tag or content you're searching for in the search bar.

For more help on finding questions using standards and tags, visit our Help Center.

CAASPP ELA uses 5 question types to provide students with a variety of practice that mimics the actual exam. These question types include:

For additional material, you can combine CAASPP ELA with our other core courses: Leveled Readings, Primary Sources, Reading Skills, and Poetry. Our core courses are aligned to California standards, so you can leverage thousands of aligned practice questions across Albert to assess, reteach, and extend student learning.

Our Help Center is available any time and provides articles written by the Albert team to answer questions you might have about implementing Albert in your classroom.