The 1998 CSAP will assess third-grade students in reading and fourth grade students in reading and writing. The fourth-grade reading assessment is designed to measure the reading portion of the Colorado Model Content Standards for reading and writing. The writing portion of these standards is assessed by the writing assessment described in the section that follows.
Students read and understand a variety of materials.
The reading assessment focuses on the specific knowledge and skills identified for kindergarten through grade 4 in the Colorado Model Content Standards. In the assessment, students are presented with a variety of reading materials, which may range in length from several paragraphs to five pages of text. Some of the materials present information in charts, tables, diagrams, lists, and other formats that do not follow paragraph style. The fourth-grade writing assessment is designed to measure the writing portion of the Colorado Model Content Standards for reading and writing. Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.