Prepares Students for the Smarter Balanced (SBAC) Assessments
Provides Ongoing Skill Development and Practice - Provides ten practice sets for ongoing test preparation and skill development - Begins with two short practice sets to introduce students to testing - Continues with eight 60-minute practice sets to give students the experience they need to perform well on assessments - Covers all the skills in the Common Core State Standards - Prepares students for the question types found on the state tests Preparation for the Smarter Balanced (SBAC) Assessments - Covers the same skills as the Smarter Balanced assessments - Provides practice completing selected-response, constructed-response, and technology-enhanced questions - More rigorous questions prepare students for the higher difficulty of the new assessments - Full answer key lists the Common Core skill assessed by each question One Book, Eight Key Benefits - Develop and build on all the Common Core skills that students need - Build confidence by using the tests to improve student performance - Reduce test anxiety by allowing low-stress practice - Ensure students are comfortable with a range of question formats - Introduce students to the more complex tasks found on the Smarter Balanced assessments - Help students prepare for the more rigorous Smarter Balanced assessments - Use the full answer key and skills list to identify gaps in knowledge and target revision accordingly - Use the practice sets for testing, revision, and retesting
Matches the New Revised Standards of Learning and the SOL Mathematics Tests
This practice test book is the perfect preparation tool for the SOL Mathematics computer adaptive tests. It includes two warm-up tests and four complete full-length practice tests. The practice tests cover all the skills assessed and provide extensive practice with all the question types found on the real SOL Mathematics tests.
Complete Preparation for the SOL Mathematics Tests - Covers the new Revised Standards of Learning assessed on the SOL tests - Includes two warm-up tests to introduce students to testing - Includes four complete full-length SOL Mathematics tests - Includes the same question types found on the SOL tests - Covers all the skills assessed on the SOL tests - Format allows for review and feedback after each practice test Developed to Match the SOL Mathematics Tests - Includes the same question types found on the real assessments - Provides practice completing multiple-choice and technology-enhanced questions - Includes practice for hot spot, fill-in-the-blank, graphing, and drag and drop question styles - Additional written answer questions develop strong mathematics skills - More rigorous questions prepare students for the higher difficulty of the new assessments Key Benefits - Builds confidence by helping students prepare before taking the real test - Develops all the mathematics skills that students need - Provides experience answering all types of questions - Helps students know what to expect when taking the real SOL tests - Reduces test anxiety by allowing low-stress practice - Prepares students for taking the test online - Detailed answer key allows missing skills to be identified
This book offers an organized program where students complete focused exercises to develop a key language skill required of students. The exercises increase from easy, to moderate, and then to advanced. This leveled and focused approach will introduce students at a comfortable level and then build on the skills so that students reach and then exceed grade level expectations.
Key Features - 101 exercises focused on compound words - also covers suffixes, prefixes, word analysis, synonyms, and antonyms - 10 complete sets of exercises organized into easy, moderate, and advanced - vocabulary, reading level, and difficulty increase through the sets - format allows for review and feedback as the student progresses Develops Key Common Core Language Skills - produces a thorough understanding of compound words - develops word analysis and decoding skills - introduces common prefixes and suffixes - illustrates how prefixes and suffixes change word meaning - develops skills in identifying and using synonyms and antonyms - teaches students to use context to determine word meaning - creates an understanding of words with multiple meanings - introduces pronouns and demonstrates their meaning and uses - encourages the use of different techniques to determine correct spelling
This book offers an organized program where students complete focused exercises to develop a key language skill required of students. The exercises increase from easy, to moderate, and then to advanced. This leveled and focused approach will introduce students at a comfortable level and then build on the skills so that students reach and then exceed grade level expectations.
Key Features - 101 exercises covering idioms, phrases, adages, proverbs, similes, metaphors, and hyperbole - 10 complete sets of exercises organized into easy, moderate, and advanced - vocabulary, reading level, and difficulty increase through the sets - format allows for review and feedback as the student progresses Develops Key Common Core Language Skills - produces a thorough understanding of idioms - provides practice recognizing the meaning of common phrases - encourages students to understand and relate to proverbs and adages - helps students identify and analyze the use of sensory language - develops the ability to understand and use similes and metaphors - introduces exaggeration and hyperbole - helps students understand the literal and nonliteral meanings of words - increases vocabulary and enhances knowledge of word meanings
