Hours of Guided Practice to prepare for the STAAR Language Arts Exam Do you need a resource to give your students extensive practice in the often difficult and elusive skills of editing and revising? These workbooks may be just what you're looking for. Students are required to read passages embedded with errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization. They are then asked multiple-choice questions designed to help them recognize and correct these mistakes. These exercises will help students to better understand the essential skills of finding and correcting editorial problems...

This extraordinary reading comprehension workbook provides extensive practice for the essential skills of critical thinking and literary analysis at the high school level. Students will read a variety of passages and respond to multiple-choice and open-ended questions in the areas of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Students will learn to master selecting and applying the appropriate reading strategies to best understand and examine reading passages. Skills covered include analyzing conflict, plot, and setting; interpreting the main idea; making inferences; drawing conclusions; evaluating the...

The Explore American History workbooks, written in an engaging and easy-to-follow way, will provide middle school-level students with an overall survey of United States history. The first volume spans prehistory to Reconstruction. Volume II covers the 1870s to the present. The chapters are broken into manageable sections, each of which is followed by multiple-choice and open-ended questions. These are designed to allow students to practice reading comprehension and writing skills and to reinforce learning within the content area of history. These workbooks are targeted for students in grades...

The Explore American History workbooks, written in an engaging and easy-to-follow way, will provide middle school-level students with an overall survey of United States history. The first volume spans prehistory to Reconstruction. Volume II covers the 1870s to the present. The chapters are broken into manageable sections, each of which is followed by multiple-choice and open-ended questions. These are designed to allow students to practice reading comprehension and writing skills and to reinforce learning within the content area of history. These workbooks are targeted for students in grades...

Completely Aligned with New York English Language Arts Testing Standards Queue's Rise & Shine English Language Arts series offers grade level-appropriate, engaging, approachable material in a format your students will be accustomed to seeing on the actual test. These books have been designed to specifically enhance the test preparation experience in the New York classroom. Grades 3-8 Comprehensively researched, targeted, and aligned to New York Assessment standards for English Language Arts Book is broken into six subject areas-specific parts: Poems; Fiction; Nonfiction; Listening;...

Help your students identify and practice the skills they most need to improve with this series of reading workbooks. Each question in these extraordinary books targets a specific skill that students must master to succeed on state assessments. The passages in these workbooks consist of narrative and expository text. Expository passages include informative, biographical, and how-to selections. There are mixed passages and paired passages. Mixed passages put two different kinds of writing together in one lesson. Paired passages have two separate passages about the same topic that are read...

Help your students identify and practice the skills they most need to improve with this series of reading workbooks. Each question in these extraordinary books targets a specific skill that students must master to succeed on state assessments. The passages in these workbooks consist of narrative and expository text. Expository passages include informative, biographical, and how-to selections. There are mixed passages and paired passages. Mixed passages put two different kinds of writing together in one lesson. Paired passages have two separate passages about the same topic that are read...