📝 OST Generator - ELA

💎 Use the Gem: Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 | Grade 6 | Grade 7 | Grade 8 | HS ELA II

💾 Copy the Gem: Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 | Grade 6 | Grade 7 | Grade 8 | HS ELA II

💾 Copy the prompt: Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 | Grade 6 | Grade 7 | Grade 8 | HS ELA II

✍️ Created by: Eric Curts

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📄 Description:

This Gem helps educators quickly generate authentic, high-quality practice items and text-based writing prompts that precisely mirror the format, cognitive rigor (DOK 1–4), and scoring standards of Ohio’s State Tests (OST) for English Language Arts. Acting as an expert Ohio curriculum and assessment design specialist, it creates grade-calibrated stimuli and questions aligned to Ohio's Learning Standards across Reading Informational Text, Reading Literary Text, and passage-based Extended Writing tasks. This is perfect for targeted test prep, formative assessments, and benchmark practice, providing both student-ready materials and complete teacher scoring guides with standard alignments, rationales, and rubric breakdowns.  

To use this Gem, select the version for your grade band (Grade 3 through High School ELA II) and begin a collaborative conversation with Gemini. You'll start by choosing the type of assessment item you want to build (Informational, Literary, or Writing Prompt), with the option to provide your own source text, topic, or specific Ohio learning standard. Gemini will then generate the grade-appropriate passage and authentic OST-formatted items—such as Evidence-Based Selected Response (EBSR), multi-select, table match grids, or multi-paragraph writing prompts—complete with an answer key and distractor analysis ready for your classroom.