Practice reading, listening, and writing skills. Make your time count with the series keyed to New York's English Language Arts Learning Standards. With these booklets, students receive instructional practice for approaching reading, listening, and writing questions. They also get an authentic test-taking experience with a practice assessment replicating the actual test's content, design, and length.
Practice reflects NYS standards. The best way to prepare your students for New York's unique achievement assessment is to use the program designed specifically for that purpose. Soaring Scores on the NYS Mathematics Assessment builds both math skills and the test-taking skills to support them. An authentic practice test mirrors the NYS Math Test in design and length.
Modeled instruction on document-based questions and each of the Social Studies Learning Standards, plus a full-length practice test, this up-to-minute program builds skills while preparing students for the new social studies assessment. All questions are correlated to specific standards and units. Students get a detailed introduction to multiple-choice, constructed-response, and document-based questions - and hints on how to answer each - along with a general overview of the test itself.
Parents and teachers know that they can be confident using Spectrum Test Prep for New York to prepare their students for proficiency testing! Spectrum New York Test Prep workbooks for grades 3 through 6 offer custom-designed test practice for New York's language arts, math, science, and social studies tests. These workbooks are written in the authentic language of New York's proficiency requirements.
Features: Complete New York standards descriptions for grades 3-6 A state-specific test section in language arts, math, and science as required by New York A state-specific test section in social studies as required in Grade 5 Strategic methods for tackling different types of questions A self-scoring section for each test to determine the level of skill mastery
This resource is divided into three sections: The American Revolution, Westward Expansion, and Woman Suffrage. Included are letters, historical documents, diary excerpts, political cartoons, photos, art, maps, ads, and other artifacts that are classified as primary sources. By learning how people of the periods actually felt, students will better understand the people and events that shaped the history of our nation.
80 pages. Grades 5-8.