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Test Prep / Test Preparation for Standardized Tests, Standardized Test Practice (Language Arts, Reading, Writing, Math, Social Studies, Science) Teacher Resources, Books, Teaching Supplies, and Classroom Educational Materials (8 products)

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Test Prep / Preparation for Standardized Tests, Standardized Test Practice (8 products)

Standardized Tests Practice First Grade Teaching Materials and SuppliesPrepare & Practice for Standardized Tests: Grade 1

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $16.99
Product #: 1002891
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Includes a variety of strategies for successful test taking

Offers helpful tips and suggestions to reduce test anxiety

Includes standards

This all-new series takes advantage of the latest research related to standardized testing. It prepares not only students, but also teachers and parents, for successful testing experiences.

Each book in the series presents test-taking strategies and anxiety-reducing tips. The practice tests cover grade-specific, standards-based content. The test questions are similar in style to those found in current standardized tests.

There's no magic in these books. They're not fancy. But they offer the very best preparation for making the most of testing and getting results that accurately measure what each student knows.

Pages: 144
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Prepare & Practice for Standardized Tests Gr. 2
Prepare & Practice for Standardized Tests Gr. 3
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Standardized Tests Practice Second GradeTeacher Resources and MaterialsPrepare & Practice for Standardized Tests: Grade 2

Grade Level: Second Grade
Price: $16.99
Product #: 1002892
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Includes a variety of strategies for successful test taking

Offers helpful tips and suggestions to reduce test anxiety

Includes standards

This all-new series takes advantage of the latest research related to standardized testing. It prepares not only students, but also teachers and parents, for successful testing experiences.

Each book in the series presents test-taking strategies and anxiety-reducing tips. The practice tests cover grade-specific, standards-based content. The test questions are similar in style to those found in current standardized tests.

There's no magic in these books. They're not fancy. But they offer the very best preparation for making the most of testing and getting results that accurately measure what each student knows.

Pages: 144
You may also like:
Prepare & Practice for Standardized Tests Gr. 1
Prepare & Practice for Standardized Tests Gr. 3
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Standardized Tests Practice Third Grade Education Materials and SuppliesPrepare & Practice for Standardized Tests: Grade 3

Grade Level: Third Grade
Price: $16.99
Product #: 1002893
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Includes a variety of strategies for successful test taking

Offers helpful tips and suggestions to reduce test anxiety

Includes standards

This all-new series takes advantage of the latest research related to standardized testing. It prepares not only students, but also teachers and parents, for successful testing experiences.

Each book in the series presents test-taking strategies and anxiety-reducing tips. The practice tests cover grade-specific, standards-based content. The test questions are similar in style to those found in current standardized tests.

There's no magic in these books. They're not fancy. But they offer the very best preparation for making the most of testing and getting results that accurately measure what each student knows.

Pages: 144
You may also like:
Prepare & Practice for Standardized Tests Gr. 1
Prepare & Practice for Standardized Tests Gr. 2
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Educational Songs for Reading Comprehension Reading Comprehension Test Taking Strategies DVD

Grade Level: Second, Third, Fourth Grade
Price: $19.99
Product #: RL00200
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Nobody’s sharper than Marko the Pencil when it comes to helping students learn to read for meaning and prepare for tests. His tips are super effective and his outrageous antics keep students on task. With Marko’s guidance, students ace a practice test by learning how to read passages, find key words, and determine the best answers. Students stay calm and relaxed knowing they have the tools they need to succeed!

A team of teachers—who consistently get superior performance from their students on standardized tests—helped create this DVD. They carefully examined reading tests in several states to identify winning strategies for boosting scores and reducing anxiety.

Let’s face it: preparing for state-mandated tests is not a favorite activity of teachers and students. But there’s no reason it can’t be fun when you have an entertaining character—one who knows exactly how to connect with kids. That’s why we’re so pleased to have Vic Mignogna playing the voice of Marko the Pencil. Vic is well known for his award-winning acting in anime cartoons and video games. Vic won Best Actor, 2007 American Anime Awards.

As a special reward at the end of Reading Comprehension, Marko makes an appearance at the Golden Stylus Comedy room to show just how sharp he can be! His kid-friendly jokes will have everyone laughing. Kids love telling jokes to others, and Marko has some of the best school-related jokes on the planet.

Included with Reading Comprehension, you get Marko’s cool website where you can download a practice test and answer key, learn more tips for doing well on standardized tests, and check out other helpful tools for scoring high on a reading test.

Reading Comprehension includes:

• Reading Comprehension
• Identifying the Main Idea
• Using Context Clues
• Making Inferences
• Recalling Details and Sequencing
• Drawing Conclusions
• Following Directions
• Mastering Standardized Tests
• Bonus: Marko’s Jokes at the Golden Stylus Comedy Room

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Multiplication Rap DVD / Multiplication Rap CD and Book
Addition & Subtraction Rock DVD / Addition & Subtraction Rock CD & Book
Spanish Vols. l & ll DVD
Our complete collection of Reading Comprehension teaching materials
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Test Prep/Preparation / Practice for Standardized Tests in Reading, Writing, Math, Language Arts for First GradeAdvantage Test Prep

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $8.99
Product #: 4008118
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High-Interest Skill Building for Home and School!

This teaching resource book helps prepare students to perform better on tests by familiarizing them with test formats, question types, and content.

Each book provides instruction in the four key curriculum areas tested nationwide – reading, writing, language, and mathematics. The formats, reading passages, and questions are all modeled after national standardized and proficiency tests. Each book culminates with a practice test with a bubble answer sheet for a real test-like experience. Also perfect for multi-subject, summer review.

Practice skill pages include:

"Knowing the Skill" – explains and defines each skill
"Test Example" – provides practice using the skills
"Think About the Answer" – helps children think through their answers
"Now You Try It" – sample challenges provide practice in answering literal, interpretive, and critical questions.

Skill Review and Reinforcement
If you choose a grade-level book equal to the grade your child is currently in or has just finished, use the book to:

reinforce skills being taught in the classroom throughout the year
keep your child's skills fresh over the summer


Extra Challenge and Enrichment
If you choose a grade level book beyond the grade your child is currently in or has just finished, use the book to:

provide enrichment and an extra challenge during the school year
give your child a summer preview of what's to come in school next year

Whether you use this resource for your child/student to practice familiar skills or to learn new ones, the extra advantage will make a difference!

Pages: 112
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Test Prep/Preparation / Practice for Standardized Tests in Reading, Writing, Math, Language Arts for Second GradeAdvantage Test Prep

Grade Level: Second Grade
Price: $8.99
Product #: 4008119
Sample Pages

 

 

High-Interest Skill Building for Home and School!

This teaching resource book helps prepare students to perform better on tests by familiarizing them with test formats, question types, and content.

Each book provides instruction in the four key curriculum areas tested nationwide – reading, writing, language, and mathematics. The formats, reading passages, and questions are all modeled after national standardized and proficiency tests. Each book culminates with a practice test with a bubble answer sheet for a real test-like experience. Also perfect for multi-subject, summer review.

Practice skill pages include:

"Knowing the Skill" – explains and defines each skill
"Test Example" – provides practice using the skills
"Think About the Answer" – helps children think through their answers
"Now You Try It" – sample challenges provide practice in answering literal, interpretive, and critical questions.

Skill Review and Reinforcement
If you choose a grade-level book equal to the grade your child is currently in or has just finished, use the book to:

reinforce skills being taught in the classroom throughout the year
keep your child's skills fresh over the summer


Extra Challenge and Enrichment
If you choose a grade level book beyond the grade your child is currently in or has just finished, use the book to:

provide enrichment and an extra challenge during the school year
give your child a summer preview of what's to come in school next year

Whether you use this resource for your child/student to practice familiar skills or to learn new ones, the extra advantage will make a difference!

Pages: 112
Return to the Test Prep teaching supplies index


Test Prep/Preparation / Practice for Standardized Tests in Reading, Writing, Math, Language Arts for Second GradeAdvantage Test Prep

Grade Level: Third Grade
Ebook Price: $8.54
Product #: 4008120
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High-Interest Skill Building for Home and School!

This teaching resource book helps prepare students to perform better on tests by familiarizing them with test formats, question types, and content.

Each book provides instruction in the four key curriculum areas tested nationwide – reading, writing, language, and mathematics. The formats, reading passages, and questions are all modeled after national standardized and proficiency tests. Each book culminates with a practice test with a bubble answer sheet for a real test-like experience. Also perfect for multi-subject, summer review.

Practice skill pages include:

"Knowing the Skill" – explains and defines each skill
"Test Example" – provides practice using the skills
"Think About the Answer" – helps children think through their answers
"Now You Try It" – sample challenges provide practice in answering literal, interpretive, and critical questions.

Skill Review and Reinforcement
If you choose a grade-level book equal to the grade your child is currently in or has just finished, use the book to:

reinforce skills being taught in the classroom throughout the year
keep your child's skills fresh over the summer


Extra Challenge and Enrichment
If you choose a grade level book beyond the grade your child is currently in or has just finished, use the book to:

provide enrichment and an extra challenge during the school year
give your child a summer preview of what's to come in school next year

Whether you use this resource for your child/student to practice familiar skills or to learn new ones, the extra advantage will make a difference!

Pages: 112
Return to the Test Prep teaching supplies index


writing strategies education dvdWriting Strategies

Grade Level: Grades 4-12
Price: $19.99
Product #: RL00202
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Captivate readers, ace writing tests, and express yourself clearly—Marko the Pencil will show you how. His Writer’s Toolbox, packed with easy-to-implement strategies, will take your writing from mediocre to magnificent. Stories, essays, term papers, or standardized tests—whatever you write, Marko gives you proven strategies for getting remarkable results. This is the fun way to sharpen your writing skills.

Winner of 4 awards!

• Parents' Choice Silver Honor
• iParenting Media Award
• Coalition for Quality Children's Media Kids First!
• Creative Child Magazine's Toy Award

Join in the fun as Marko helps a friend develop a real writing passage—demonstrating each of his tools in action. You’ll learn how to:

• brainstorm ideas for your assignment
• consider your audience and identify your purpose
• find a hook to interest readers
• organize sentences and ideas effectively
• avoid unclear pronouns
• use transitional phrases
• involve your readers with effective dialogue
• enrich your work with similes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, and more

This animated adventure is ideal for classroom use as well as individual practice. Although it was designed and tested with students in fourth grade, our team of educators discovered that students in higher grades (even high school and college) benefited from the review of writing tools and how to effectively integrate all of them into a writing passage.

We have included a special bonus section: Marko shows you how to proofread your work, and he reveals secrets to score well on multiple-choice writing tests. Plus, you will find free downloadable posters and support material at Marko’s special website.

All of the students using this program during our research loved watching it and commented that many of the writing concepts that they had heard about in school finally made sense to them. Spectacular animation and Marko’s humor keep students focused. We suggest that the main program be viewed at a separate session from the bonus material. The main Writing Program is 34 minutes in length. Students may review certain tools at any time, easily accessible from the DVD menu.

Proofing and Editing, Marko’s bonus material is 37 minutes in length and helps students catch careless errors in their work. Students learn to proof for errors involving paragraphs, quotes, incomplete sentences, subject-verb agreement, misspelled words, punctuation, and much more.

Marko the Pencil is played by actor Vic Mignogna, Best Actor 2007, American Anime Awards and voice for many popular video games. Writing Strategies is perfect for boosting performance on any writing assignment, state-mandated writing test, or other type of writing exam. Students gain the skills they need to approach writing with fun and confidence.

Writing Strategies includes:

• Marko’s Song
• Brainstorming Your Topic and Getting Started
• The Arranger
• The Hook
• Transitional Cake
• Colorful Words and Expressing Feelings
• Personification
• Dialogue
• Similes
• Onomatopoeia
• More Practice Applying Marko’s Writing Tools
• Alliteration
• Detecting Unclear Pronouns
• How to Make A Lasting Impression
• The Finished Story
• Review of Marko’s Writing Tools

BONUS MATERIAL
• How to Proofread for Careless Errors
• How to Score Well on a Multiple-Choice Writing Test
• Marko’s Posters for Becoming an Outstanding Writer

Total running time: Approx. 70 minutes
You may also like:
Reading Comprehension Test Taking DVD
Multiplication Rap CD / Multiplication Rap DVD
Spanish Vols. l & ll DVD
Our entire collection of Writing teaching resources
Our entire collection of Test Prep teaching materials
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