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Guided Test Prep - 1

Completed by 3 learners
Ages 10-13
Live Group Class
Review pertinent reading skills in preparation for raising test scores.
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:
(159 reviews)

Live video meetings
3x per week, 8 weeks
3-3 learners per class
60 min

What's included

24 live meetings
24 in-class hours
Homework
2-4 hours per week. Unfinished workbook pages will be compulsory in order to fare well and proceed forward with instruction. In addition, all students will need to review the reading skills and strategies given throughout the course.
Assessment
Each practice reading selection will serve as an assessment or measurement for student's demonstration of understanding subject content.

Class Experience

US Grade 5 - 8
Intermediate Level
Guided Test Prep is designed to assist students in reviewing pertinent reading skills that are found on state standardized yearly tests and to specifically increase their scores.   During this seven-week course, students will be fully immersed and engaged in completing aligned and specific exercises that will be helpful in passing the reading portion of a standardized test.  

The course is driven by REVIEWING standard reading skills and strategies found on current reading assessments for elementary and middle school students and will be delivered by using a Power Point Presentation.   Additionally,  students will use a Texas STAAR Practice workbook which will provide the necessary exemplars for student practice.  

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SOME READING SKILLS ADDRESSED:

`GRAMMAR:
`Mechanics & Parts of Speech

`READING:
`Drawing Conclusions
`Evaluating Arguments
`Citing Evidence
`Text Organization/Structure
`Word Recognition - context clues, multiple & technical  meanings
                                  - connotative & denotation meanings

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COURSE AGENDA
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WEEK  1
FOCUS: chapter 2 - determining correct word usage
                                   multiple meanings, figures of speech
                                   context clues, roots, affixes, style & tone

WEEK  2
FOCUS: chapter 2 - determining correct word usage 
                                   subject & verb agreement, pronouns, 
                                   adjectives & adverbs, mechanics

WEEK  3
FOCUS: chapter 3 - comprehension skills - word knowledge
                                   technical meanings, connotative & denotative

WEEK  4
FOCUS: chapter 3 - comprehension skills - word knowledge
                                   development of ideas, analyze  people, places, things
                                   central ideas of text, summarize
                                   
WEEK  5
FOCUS: chapter 3 - evaluating arguments, setting, analysis of key events,
                                   drawing conclusions

WEEK  6
FOCUS: chapter 3 - textual evidence, author's purpose, point of view,
                                   figurative language
               chapter 4 - author's purpose & craft

WEEK   7
FOCUS: chapter 5 - sentence variety, headings, descriptive details
                                   sensory language, revising, editing

FOCUS: chapter 5 - descriptive details, sensory language, revise & edit
               chapter 6 - information from multiple sources

Learning Goals

Students will practice reading skills in order to reach their objective of increasing their reading score on the reading portion of standardized testing.

Other Details

Learning Needs
No accommodations will be given in this type of course.
Pre-Requisites
All students must have a working knowledge of basic Reading Skills such as main idea, details, cause & effect, context clues, drawing conclusions and inference. Additionally, students must be reading on or above their current grade level.
Supply List
TITLE:  Texas English Language Arts Literacy
             STAAR Practice - GRADE 6
BY:       Lumos Learning
ISBN:   978-1-949855-35-7
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Meet the teacher

Joined April, 2020
4.9
159reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
New Jersey Teaching Certificate in Secondary Education
English, Literature, Reading, Writing, and Grammar are the subject areas that my baccalaureate and master's degree training encompasses. I have more than twenty-five years of teaching  Language Arts ranging from Kindergarten to College level courses.  A multiple of those years were spent with successfully helping students to achieve reading test scores in the 80% percentile or more on a consistent basis.  

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