This course is appropriate for any student wanting to prepare for the PSAT and SAT. Do note that the reading levels of the passages range from 8th grade and beyond. Also, note that the SAT no longer assigns students an essay to write. Instead, students complete two critical reading section and writing sections that covers reading analysis, rhetorical synthesis, sentence structure, grammar, and vocabulary. 

I have taken 2 workshops in the Spring of 2022  (including the Indiana GEAR Up SAT professional development workshop) that cover ways to prepare students for the SAT and PSAT. I also tutor students in preparing for the SAT and teach high school English. I am a SAT testing coordinator and administrator at my school. I also have a plethora of practice resources if you would like more than what is provided in this course.

This is an ongoing course. Topics do not build on each other. Learners may enter and leave at any time.

Topics Will Include:
-Analyzing Types of reading passages
-Author Craft Analysis
-Rhetorical Analysis
-Details/supporting details
-Functions of phrases/passages
-Vocabulary in context
-Main Ideas
-Inference
-Author's Purpose
-Evidence Support
-Data Interpretation
-Homophones
-idiomatic expressions
-Logical Fallacies

2024 Schedule

Week of 5/6: Overview of the NEW Digital Test, Test Changes, and Practice Questions

Week of 5/13: Key Skills: Logical and Precise Words/Phrases 

Week of 5/20:  Key Skills: Functions/Purposes of Details/Passages

Week of 5/27: Key Skills: Using and Analyzing Evidence

Week of 6/3: Key Skills: Paired Passages and Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement

Week of 6/17: Key Skills: Form, Structure, and Sense with types of dashes/hyphens/ellipsis

Week of 6/24: Key Skills:  Inferences and advanced vocabulary skills

Week of 7/8: Rhetorical Synthesis and phrases with plurals/possessives

Week of 7/15: Key Ideas and Detail with Subject Verb Agreement

Week of 7/22: Types of Data and parallel structure

7/29: Work Through Practice Test

FALL 2024 Semester: Starting 8/15
8/15: Strategy Guidelines and Main Idea
8/22-8/29: Main Idea in Literature, History, and Nonfiction (2 weeks)

No class 9/2

9/9-9/16: Support or Weaken Claim in Literature, History, and Nonfiction (2 weeks)

9/23-9/30 Relevant Information from Notes in Nonfiction (2 weeks)

10/7-10/14: Words in Context (2 weeks)

11/4-11/11: Dual Passages in Nonfiction (2 weeks)

11/18: Transition Words (1 week)
11/25: Punctuation – Comma Usage 
12/2: Punctuation – Apostrophes (1 week)
12/9: Pronoun Agreement and Misplaced Modifiers (1 week)
12/16: Subject/Verb Agreement, Finite and Nonfinite Verbs, Tense (2 weeks)