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TestSMART® Practice Books
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Here's help for state-mandated tests
TestSMART® Practice Books for Reading and Language
Arts
Grades 2-8
These bestsellers contain:
- Pretests
- Reproducible practice sheets
- Master skills lists
- Answer keys, and more.
- ECS TestSMART® is just the tool teachers need to help students review important reading and language arts skills and prepare them for standardized tests.
- Each book contains a comprehensive pretest and reproducible practice exercises. The reading series features practice in word analysis, vocabulary, comprehension, and study skills. Sentence structure, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and usage are addressed in the language arts series.
- An extensive master skills list represents a synthesis of reading and language arts skills from major state test specifications and can be correlated from one state to another.
- Evaluation is simple with the provided scoring guidelines and sample rubrics for open-ended questions and answer key for multiple-choice questions.
- ECS TestSMART® familiarizes students with both the content and format of state competency tests.
Great for:
- Daily Practice
- Tutorials
- Homework assignments
- Summer school
Power Practice for School and Home Provide the
Extra boost Your Students Need!
Grades 3-8
TAKS
Master Power Practice can be duplicated within each classroom.
Ideal for:
- Tutorials
- Homework
- Review Session
- Special Programs
- Summer School
Reading Books
More than 150 Practice Items. TAKS MASTER® Power Practice for School and Home for reading include:
- Narrative, expository, mixed, and paired passages
- Authentic passages of interest to students
- Grade-level appropriate reading level
- Labeled, objective-based questions
- Correlation chart of objectives and student expectations
- Graphic organizers
- Complete answer key
Math Books
More than 250 Practice Items. TAKS MASTER® Power Practice for School and Home for math includes:
- Problems like those encountered on the actual TAKS
- Exercises labeled by specific objectives and student expectation
- Grade-level appropriate items
- Effective pictorial models
- Grade-level math chart of formulas and conversion factors
- Master list of objectives and skills adressed on the TAKS
- New griddable response items
- Complete answer keys
TEKS in a Test Tube
The Science Program your school needs to master
Science TAKS!
Grades 2-5
Each grade level has 30 lessons that take about an hour.
The teacher does not need an in-depth science background.
- The accompanying assessments help to determine what skills have been mastered and those needing attention.
- All lessons are well-developed and easy to follow.
- Just follow the directions and you will be successful in helping your students discover their science skills.
- The program uses time wisely.
Eye on Mastery
TAKS Mathematics Preparation & Enrichment
Grades 6-11
Guided Practice Sessions
Guided practice sessions are designed to give direct instruction from
the teacher to the student. To facilitate this process several products
are needed.
Teacher Edition — This guide gives direct instruction to students in a small or class setting. The format is for the teacher and students to work through a series of sessions covering problems on the TAKS test. These problems come from a variety of TAKS objectives thereby replicating how the assessment will be given. These sessions are adapted to the need of the students. Each teacher edition has a classroom objective chart to track student performance.
TAKS Instructor Transparency Unit — Is a three-ring binder containing 180 transparencies for all guided practice and independent instruction. This is available for each grade levels.
Guided Practice Workbooks — Are used by the students
to follow and respond to the teachers guided instruction. Each guided
practice problem imitates the mathematical operation problems, problem-solving
strategy
or higher level thinking skills required on TAKS.
These workbooks are non-consumable.
Independent Practice Session
Independent practice is provided during each session. Independent practice
problems model the guided practice instruction. Each numbered problem
in the independent practices follows the matching number in the
guided practice. These problems give added practice to the guided instruction.
To facilitate this process the Student Workbook is available.
Student Workbook — It contains the independent practice problems. These student workbooks come in consumable and non-consumable formats. A minimum of 20 consumable workbooks must be purchased.
Class Objective Mastery Chart — This is an 18” X 24” chart for both teachers and students to keep their “Eye on Mastery”. The classroom mastery chart identifies whole class area of needs. As a result, future instruction can focus on areas of non mastered skills.
Foundations for Writing
Great for writing test preparation!
Grades
K-8
This year-long curriculum for basic writing skills helps beginning writers
achieve
success through carefully sequenced lessons. Foundations fills the gap
between
the theories on teaching writing and the real teaching of writing in the
classroom.
- Foundations especially helps teachers who are uncomfortable or
inexperienced in preparing students for state-mandated composition tests. - Many lessons are built around quality children's literature.
- Students learn to write descriptions, stories, and directions in Book I.
- Book II teaches them to write comparisons, contrasts, and persuasions.
Wake Up, Brain!!
Challenge students with more than 200 brain-stretching
activities for
language arts, math, geography, and more!
Grades 1-6
More than 200 ready-to-use activities in each book.
- Grammar, language, spelling, math, and geography skills practice
- Five- to 10-minute daily mini-lessons
- Complete answer key
- Open, student-pleasing format
- Bonus- Each book also includes 50 riddles (grades 1-5) or 50 trivia facts (grade 6)
Brown Bag Science
Hands-On Science Lessons, Minimal Prep Time
Grades 1-4
With Brown Bag Science, teachers save time preparing science labs by attaching a prewritten parent letter to a common brown lunch bag. Then, student and parent gather everyday materials from home and return them to school for the experiment.
This complete science lab package includes:
- Experiments correlated to National Science Education Standards
- Prewritten letters to parents
- Student directions and experiment worksheets
- Easy-to-understand applications of the scientific method
- Science book lists
- Topical literature worksheets related to the book lists
- Detailed answer keys…and more!
POWer
Words500 Words You Need to Know for Standardized Tests
POWer Words™ is a comprehensive review of 500 difficult vocabulary words found on most standardized tests. Students might recognize many of the words presented in POWer Words™, but they may not know the correct uses of the words.
POWer Words™ offers a thorough study of vocabulary by helping students to:
- Develop a broader knowledge of words and their meanings
- Recognize relationships between different groups of words
- Apply complex vocabulary to everyday situations
- Attain a more elaborate method of speaking and writing
Unlike most traditional vocabulary textbooks, POWer Words™ provides
students with an interesting and non-repetitive study of semantics and
word usage. The practice
and review activities use a variety of formats, such as multiple-choice
items, fill-in-theblank
exercises, and crossword puzzles.
POWer Words™ also includes an Index and Answer Key. The Index
provides the
Vocabulary List in which each word appears, allowing for quick reference
of a
particular word.
POWer
Strategiesfor Reading Comprehension
28 Weeks of Lessons for Readers at All Levels
Grades
3-8
POWer Strategies™ for Reading Comprehension provides 28 weeks of suggested lessons and quizzes to help students become powerful readers.
The Grades 3–5 book includes take-home letters and suggested word-attack skills. The Grades 6–8 book includes study guides for each week.
Features:
- Lessons which can be taught as mini-lessons while working with the
stated skills/strategies in class novels - Activities to accompany all skills and strategies
- Quizzes to assess student progress in each weekly topic
- An index of suggested novels for group work
- An appendix of bell-starter activities
Get Writing!!
A total writing program, Get Writing!! presents
lessons
sequentially within and among the grade levels.
Grades K-5
This is what teachers have been searching for: a program with easy-to-use
lessons
to teach the writing process in grades K–5 for the entire school
year.
The Get Writing!! series provides writing lesson plans for the entire
school year for grades K-5. Each lesson gives
helpful hints and shows how to conduct each activity.
Balanced Writing instruction focuses specific attention on balancing
content, process, and time components of writing with learning to write
well. The result is a successful and teacher-friendly method that helps
students become mature writers.
In addition to daily writing activities, each Get Writing!! book contains weekly, monthly, and one-year plans.
This Balanced Writing program places writing at the heart of language
arts and highlights the interaction
between writing and the language arts (i.e., oral language, reading,
and listening).
Bryan House Bestsellers in Spanish
Primary & Elementary Reading Skills
Grades 1-5
The Spanish version of Primary Reading Skills is a five-book series
that thoroughly covers the top reading skills requested by primary teachers.
In The 5 W’s: Who? What? Where? When? Why?, students practice identifying
and answering questions about the 5 W’s. Getting the Sequence works
on sequencing pictures, sentences, and concepts and helps students use
sequence as a tool for understanding more complex material.
In Main Idea & Details, students become reading detectives to find
the main idea and details in a variety of fiction and nonfiction passages.
Fact & Opinion asks students to analyze fact and opinion and learn
to evaluate what belongs and what doesn’t. Drawing Conclusions allows
students to use critical thinking skills in a host of different passages.
A variety of formats keeps students’ interest and prepares them
for formal testing.
The Spanish version of Elementary Reading Skills takes each of the five
reading skills to the next level. Each book includes a pretest and a test
for assessment, as well as repeated practice in a variety of formats.
Drill, Practice & Apply
Grades 1-5
Drill, Practice & Apply is a four-book skill-building series in
which Math Action Heroes help students master basic computation skills.
The reproducible worksheets are excellent for teaching, reviewing, and
extra practice.
Math Skills
Grades K-5
This nine-book series packs the basic math skills every child must acquire
into reproducible worksheets to save
the teacher valuable preparation time. Each book is excellent for teaching,
reviewing, and extra practice.
Fun With Math
Grades 1-4
The Fun With Math series uses puzzles, riddles, designs, graph art, and more to make learning math concepts fun and creative. Dot-to-Dot 1. 100+ covers skills such as counting by odds and evens, skip counting, and decimals to 100 and beyond. In Multiplication Dot-to-Dot, students connect the dots in order of their answers, enabling them to see right away if they are correct.
There's also a bonus multiplication table and activity. Math Art 1-2 and Math Art 2–3 are a unique pair of books that offer fundamental math activities in the form of puzzles, riddles, line designs, graph art, and more. The 1-2 level book covers skills such as comparing numbers, computation, coordinates, geometric shapes, and fractions. In 2–3, more advanced skills are covered, such as place value, regrouping, simple fractions and decimals, graphs, grids, rounding, and money.
