Keep reading to learn about NoRedInk features and resources that can help your students prepare for the ACT and the Digital SAT.
Evaluate which skills students need to practice most
On the Planning Diagnostics page, you’ll find pre-made planning diagnostics aligned to your state’s standards for each grade, as well as to the ACT and SAT.
Your diagnostic results will help you identify which language skills students need to practice most and assign work to reinforce those skills.
From your diagnostic results page, we recommend starting a unit on a given skill and tracking students’ progress through a short diagnostic, practice, and growth quiz. (Check out our Example Unit Plan for one way you could plan units based on the results of a Planning Diagnostic.)
Browse activities that align with the ACT and SAT
To browse aligned activities, visit our Standards & Tests page and choose the test you're preparing for.
From here, you're able to browse activities that align with ACT® and SAT® standards and view Pathways that are mapped to each test.
Learn more about creating activities using the Standards & Tests page here!
You can also track your students' progress towards mastery as aligned to the ACT® and SAT® by viewing student mastery data with the ACT or SAT filters on. Click here to find out how.
Finally, admins can also use these filters when viewing student progress in Premium Usage Reports. This article provides information on how to access these reports.
Prepare students with ACT and SAT mixed skill review passages
NoRedInk's ACT and SAT mixed skill review passages allow students to practice grammar and conventions skills they'll encounter on the ACT® English Test and the Digital SAT® Reading and Writing Test. Learn more about our ACT and SAT Mixed Skill Review Passages.
Learn how to assign an ACT® or SAT® mixed skill review passage in this article:
Learn about Passage Quizzes.
Prepare students for ACT and SAT essays
For students in states that require the SAT or ACT essay, our Guided Essays and Quick Writes can help!
When students are first becoming familiar with ACT/SAT essay-writing, we recommend assigning our ACT Guided Essay or SAT Guided Essay. These assignments familiarize students with the tests' prompts and rubrics, and provide timed-writing strategies and examples.
When you feel your students are ready to write without any support, try assigning our ACT Quick Writes or SAT Quick Writes instead. These assignments use real prompts and rubrics from the test, but students will write with no additional support, just like they will on the real test.
Sample plans
We offer ACT and SAT unit plans designed to help you prepare students for the specific grammar skills tested on the SAT® or ACT®, and for writing the SAT® Essay: