SK SSA ELA 7 case studies
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The Saskatchewan Student Achievement Assessment in English Language Arts for Grade 7 is a provincial assessment taken by Grade 7 students in Saskatchewan schools. It is designed for students completing Grade 7 ELA and for the teachers and families who support them. The SK SSA ELA 7 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,793 words.
1Scoring an Interpretation of an Ambiguous Ending
Okafor's Grade 7 class of 27 has just finished a 900-word short story in which a 12-year-old narrator waits at a rural bus stop at dawn. The final lines read: "The bus pulled away without him, and the field was loud with crickets." Earlier, the narrator folds his bus ticket into a paper crane and leaves it on the seat beside his sleeping younger brother.
772 words, about 4 min2Causal Language from a Before-and-After Source
Lew's Grade 7 class is writing an evidence-based paragraph on the question: Should our school start at 9:00 instead of 8:15? Students have three sources.
764 words, about 4 min3Reading Item Data on a Multiple-Meaning Word
On a unit quiz, 27 Grade 7 students read: "After the meeting ran forty minutes over, the principal's update was terse: two sentences, no questions." The item asks what terse most nearly means, with options A) rude, B) brief, C) tense, D) unclear. Fourteen students chose A; five chose C; six chose B.
722 words, about 4 min4Ten Minutes with a Persuasive Draft Before Peer Revision
Priya's persuasive letter argues that Grade 7 should have a second, 15-minute recess. Her position appears clearly in the first line.
744 words, about 4 min5Five Days, Four Sources, One Unanswerable Question
For a Grade 7 inquiry on "Is the stormwater pond behind the school healthy?" students have five days and must use at least three sources. Riley has collected four: (1) a 2009 personal blog post with photos of algae; (2) a company website that sells pond aerators, stating that pond problems are "almost always" solved by aeration; (3) the provincial water-quality database, with 2019–2023 readings for dissolved oxygen and phosphorus at the pond; (4) a 2021 peer-reviewed study of urban stormwater ponds in the same ecoregion.
791 words, about 4 min