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 eight-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.  In this ongoing course, you are at liberty to take as many or as few classes as you would like.  

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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
DATES:  TBA
FOCUS: chapter 2 - determining correct word usage
                                   multiple meanings, figures of speech
                                   context clues, roots, affixes, style & tone

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

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

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

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

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

WEEK  8
DATES:  TBA
FOCUS: chapter 5 - descriptive details, sensory language, revise & edit
               chapter 6 - information from multiple sources