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Words, Words, Words: Ready-to-Use Games and Activities for Vocabulary Building, Grades 7-12

Jack Umstatter

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Excellent Choice 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

I have a 6th grade daughter who I have been homeschooling this year. We have used this as our spelling and vocabulary text and it has been great. The units are manageable and she really liked the excerises that accompanied each unit. I hope there is a second edition, because I would use it.

Editorial Review:

Proven, practical, and fun-filled methods for increasing students' vocabulary
This resource involves students in creative and engaging ways to improve their vocabulary. Divided into 30 thematic units, the book offers four different ready-to-use activities for each group of words, including crossword puzzles, magic squares, jumbles, word finds, concealed quotations, and riddles. Perfect as quick time-fillers, competitions, quizzes, extra-credit assignments, or SAT/ACT preparation, these activities can be used both with individual students or the entire class. Includes a time-saving, easy-to-use answer key for the teacher.

Jack Umstatter (Islip, NY) has taught English on both the junior high and senior high school levels since 1972. He is the author of numerous books and has been selected Teacher of the Year several times in addition to appearing in Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

Spectrum State Specific: California Test Practice, Grade 5

School Specialty Publishing, Vincent Douglas

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Spectrum CALIFORNIA Test Practice for grade 5 offers essential practice that is custom-designed to California’s standardized reading, writing, and math tests.

This workbook includes:

•A complete explanation of California’s Standardized Test of Achievement and Reporting (STAR)

•Hundreds of practice questions modeled after the test

•On-the-spot strategies for tackling different types of questions

•A self-scoring section to determine skill mastery

Vocabulary Power Plus for the SAT, Book 4

Daniel A. Reed

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

school books 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Thanks for your help! The purchase went very smooth. I'll be back in the fall for the next addition.

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In 2005, the SAT implemented major revisions, including: New reading sections Analogies removed Multiple-Choice Grammar and Usage Questions Modified Reading Questions. Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT addresses all of the revisions in the test without vocabulary studies. Students will benefit from: Focused prefix, suffix, and root practice Challenging inference exercises Detailed critical reading exercises New SAT-style writing and grammar exercises Recommended for grade 12 From the Publisher This is a classroom edition for students. Tests and Answer Keys are available from the publisher, but are sold only to schools and teachers.

Barron's New York State Grade 8 ELA

Michael Greenberg M.A.

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This updated, user-friendly test preparation manual introduces eighth grade students in New York State to the Language Arts Test administered by the New York State Board of Regents. Subject review chapters cover reading comprehension and the test’s listening-writing and reading-writing sections. It also offers essay writing advice and two full-length practice exams that cover all of the test’s sections. Answers are provided for all questions.

SCORE! Mountain Challenge Math Workbook, Grade 3 (Ages 8-9) (Score! Mountain Challenge)

Kaplan

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The SCORE! Mountain Challenge Math Workbook, Grade 3 will encourage children to have fun learning key math concepts including:

• Algebra
• Geometry & Measurement
• Probability
• Practical Problem Solving
• Interpreting Data
• And MUCH More!

This exciting, interactive workbook equips children with crucial math skills and empowers them with the confidence they need to confront any learning challenge and achieve their goals.

This unique approach includes:

• 6 theme-related base camps full of questions, fun activities, practice quizzes, and a trip up SCORE! Mountain.
• 150 book questions plus 60 interactive online items
• Challenge exercises designed to promote critical thinking skills
• Special sessions on Everyday Math, providing more practical ways to apply learning
• Friendly and helpful hints that guide students toward right answers
• Interactive online companion with quizzes tied to each session in book, providing students even more opportunities for learning success

Walk Two Moons (Saddleback's Focus on Reading Study Guides)

Marshall K. Hall, Sharon Creech

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Walk Two Moons 5 out of 5 stars.
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Never judge a book solely on its cover. Wait until you read it. When the guy in ratty clothes drives by in a junk pile on wheels, don't assume he's poor. He may be the richest man in town. When it takes that socially awkward student in your class extra time to coherently put words together or complete an assignment, don't assume he's "learning disabled." He may have the most creative mind in your room. And when the single, redheaded woman who lives next door and keeps to herself, begins acting friendly and goes out of her way to be kind to you, don't assume she's an ax wielding murderer with something to hide. She may just care about you. This is a lesson that Salamanca Tree Hiddle learns all too well, in Sharon Creech's amazing Newbery Medal Winner, Walk Two Moons.

Sugar Hiddle left her home, husband, and daughter in Bybanks, Kentucky and set out by bus to Lewiston, Idaho without any real explanation and never returned. So Sal, Sugar's 13 year-old daughter, embarks on a cross-country trip with her grandparents to track her mother down and bring her home. Along the journey, Sal entertains her grandparents by telling them the story of her friend, Phoebe Winterbottom, whose story begins to weave itself around Sal's own tale. Like Sal, Phoebe has a mother with plenty of questions on her mind and like Sal, there are some hard truths to life that Phoebe will need to learn how to face.

The first time I finished this book, I was at a loss for words. I wondered how Sharon Creech managed to tackle such adult themes in such a kid-friendly book, because there are plenty of them scattered throughout these pages. The whole idea of writing a story for children about a woman who packs up her things and leaves her loving husband and caring daughter for no apparent reason, could be a dangerous path to tread along for a children's author. Think of the fear you could instill in your young readers. "What if MY mother left me without explaining why?" Add to this the possibility of infidelity (because I do believe that Creech KNOWS her readers are going to go there) and you have the ingredients for an extremely heavy, thought-provoking, and scary novel. However, Creech pulls this off impeccably by trusting that her children readers are able to handle the assumptions they will make through the course of reading this book. And parents remember, don't judge a book by its cover, or at least until you've read it. That's the point Creech is trying to hammer home. There's more to this story than what first meets the eye. Much more.

Creech takes the Native American proverb, "Never judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins" and lets it resonate throughout her novel. To truly understand and appreciate the intricate layers to Walk Two Moons, you need to be aware of this. It's this proverb that I feel, drives every decision Creech made when telling Sal and Phoebe's stories. It's this lesson that carries the plot. Which brings me to something I have to discuss but wish to do so carefully . . . the "surprise" ending.

My intention is not to give away too much of the story, (although by discussing it, I hope to entice you enough to pick up a copy for yourself) but to address a very popular critique of this novel and defend Creech's work. Many negative reviews of this novel claim that Creech "tricks" her readers with her ending and in doing so, loses some credibility in the unique "story within a story" method she's chosen to write with. I could not find this to be any farther from the truth. It is absolutely necessary that Creech "trick" the reader the way she does in order to really give her true message it's meaning. Without this ending, the book would fail to live up to it's own title.

In my opinion, Walk Two Moons is nearly flawless. It is one of the most engaging books I have ever read, and is a story that can affect so many people on so many different levels. It sounds cliché to say, but there really is something for everyone. There's mystery, (who is leaving the Winterbottom secret notes), there's suspense, (who is the Stranger), there's love, (will Sal and Ben become "more than" friends), and there's drama, (why did Sal's mom really leave Bybanks). Even reluctant readers in my 5th grade classroom poured over its pages, asking questions and searching for answers. It doesn't matter the grade, it doesn't matter your age, Sharon Creech's message will speak to anyone. Open your mind, open your heart, and let Salamanca Tree Hiddle settle inside to tell you the story of her mother, her friend, and her journey.

Editorial Review:

Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle's mother has disappeared. While tracing her steps on a car trip from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, Salamanca tells a story to pass the time about a friend named Phoebe Winterbottom whose mother vanished and who received secret messages after her disappearance. One of them read, "Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins." Despite her father's warning that she is "fishing in the air," Salamanca hopes to bring her home. By drawing strength from her Native American ancestry, she is able to face the truth about her mother. Walk Two Moons won the 1995 Newbery Medal.

Building Thinking Skills, Level 3 Verbal (Building Thinking Skills) with Answer Key Grades 7 - 12+

Sandra Parks, Howard Black

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Building Thinking Skills provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve students vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on any assessment test.

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Master the Catholic High School Entrance Exam 2008 (Master the Catholic High School Entrance Examinations)

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

horrible book 1 out of 5 stars.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful.

This book had a fairly good review section for the HSPT, but when you get to the two practice tests, watch out.Your child will be tested on the most ridiculously difficult language problems. The student is supposed to find errors in punctuation, usage and spelling in a number of sentences. The errors are extremely difficult to find, if not impossible. I would dare any college English teacher to take this test and get 90% correct.

One sentence's error was that the word annoy should have been used instead of aggravate. In my thesaurus the first synonym for annoy is aggravate. HELLOOOO! This section has many items just as outrageous. After taking this test, my daughter, who has already taken the SAT in seventh grade and scored 630 on the reading section, felt like a failure. We then bought the Kaplan study guide and did a practice test. The Kaplan is much more in line with what the HSPT should have. Don't waste your money on the Peterson book. The items in other sections often had equally ambiguous answers. Your child's self esteem will suffer with the Peterson book and they will probably become very uptight before the test. The practice tests in this book are very unrealistic and extremely difficult.

Editorial Review:

Bestselling test prep guide on two of the most popular parochial school placement tests. Middle schoolers learn what to expect and get plenty of practice when using this bestselling guide to prepare for the COOP and HSPT. With an instructional style and organization geared to young, first-time test takers, it will put them at ease while also introducing the SSAT, ISEE, and TACHS.

Spectrum Illinois Test Prep, Grade 3 (Spectrum Illinois)

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Featuring practice specifically tailored to the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT), Spectrum ILLINOIS Test Prep for grade 3 is the ultimate resource for young test-takers!

This workbook includes:

•On-target practice of state-specific objectives

•Practice tests that reinforce concepts learned

•Strategies for handling different types of test questions

•A self-scoring section for each test to measure the skill mastery level

The Giver (Cliffs Notes)

Suzanne Pavlos

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It makes you think 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

My teacher read this book to us in English class for a unit. I really liked this book because it makes you think or imagine what could have happened to Jonas and Gabe. I know in my class when we finished the book, my teacher asked us what we thought happened at the end, so we all gave our ideas. Some kids said that he got a job or got married or died. Anything could have happened to them. Thats why I liked this book.

AMM 7.3 4 out of 5 stars.
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I like the book it is different, because of the way she uses the different world how they can't make different choices. I thought that she used new words to express the feelings about Jonas and The Giver. I also thought that she used the advantage of them not having choices, because it made them realised that "Elswhere" really exixted.
I didn't like the ending it was making me hang of the edge of my seat. It made me think about the ending and how Jonas got to elsewhere. She needs more of the ending or the sequel to the book. I do agree about the way she described about not having a sequal though.

Editorial Review:

Jonas, the protagonist in Lois Lowry's novel The Giver, lives in what appears to be a safe, predictable, familiar community. Members of this utopia, which is void of disease, hunger, poverty, war, or lasting pain, have given up all emotions and memories of experience to attain Sameness and the illusion of social order. In the end, Jonas recognizes the hypocrisy on which the community is based and crafts a way to "free" everyone from this Sameness.