Description & Features

Strategies for Test-Taking Success is an innovative test preparation series designed to help all students develop effective test-taking skills and strategies, regardless of their English language proficiency or academic level. Each book in the Strategies series focuses on a major testing discipline.

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• Effective instruction provides scaffolding for foundational skills while teaching and practicing advanced skills.
• Accessible language with concrete examples and practical activities support and clarify concepts, while higher order thinking skills are developed.
• Art, graphics and charts support student comprehension.
• Pretest helps teachers evaluate students' current skills and areas of need.
• "Keys to Understanding" highlights signal words and questions and special test-taking pointers.
• "Tips" offers practical skill-specific aids and hints.
• After each lesson, a practice section reviews skills, progressing from controlled and supported, to productive and open-ended activities.
• Review Tests and two Cumulative Practice Tests simulate the format and language of standardized tests.
• Answer Key provides answers and explanations for both correct and incorrect answers.
• ExamView Pro test-generating software allows teachers to create new tests in minutes, so that students have additional practice opportunities.
• Strategies for Test-Taking Success can be used to assess students' mastery of standards, and for re-teaching and remediation.