Hey Students!

Here are a few websites that link to online test practice for the MCA II/GRAD reading test. You do not have to go in order, but remember which ones you have completed. Many of these require passwords, so open this blog in two separate windows so that you can click back to the blog without exiting your testing window.

1. Click here for the Minnesota Department of Education link which contains an online exercise. When it asks for a Learning Locator Number, type in: AS115355
When you find the assignment (called "On Your Own: A Blanket, A Granny, A Homestead"), a bicycle should pop up. Then, click on the music note to begin.

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2. Click here for a link to a reading practice website.

3. Click on the link here to practice identifying author purpose and tone.

4. Click here for 20 exercises in reading comprehension.

5. Click here to practice using context clues.

6. Click here for practice identifying topics.

7. Click here for practice with topics and paraphrasing (putting things in your own words).

8. Click here for a beginning inference practice.

9. Click here for practice with inference and main idea.

10. Click here for practice with recognizing main ideas.

11. Click here for practice with topic sentences and supporting details.

12. Click here for practice with inferring main idea and details.

13. Click here to practice identifying main idea.

14. Click here to practice identifying primary patterns of writing.

15. Click here to practice identifying primary patterns of organization.

16. Click here for more practice with recognizing author purpose and tone.

17. Click here for an online sample of the MCA GRAD reading test. You cannot answer the questions by clicking on them; you must write your answers on paper and then check them.

Click here to check your answers and see if they are correct.

18. Click here for an item sampler for the MCA II reading test. This is a large PDF file and may take awhile to load.

19. Click here for an item sampler for the Basic Skills Test (BST). Once you're on the website, click on 1997, 1998, and 2004.

20. Click here and enter access code 6611393500 and password whitebear. Next, select "Reading in 15 Minutes a Day" from the drop down menu. There you will find two online practice tests.

21. Click here for the Minnesota Department of Education link which contains an online exercise. When it asks for a Learning Locator Number, type in: AS113815
When you find the assignment (called "On Your Own: Long Walk, Human SM, Paula & Brian"), a bicycle should pop up. Then, click on the music note to begin.