Author: Test Master Press Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781493736812 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
This book has been created to provided targeted practice exercises for the two language skills most requested by teachers and most troublesome for many students. These are understanding similes and metaphors, and recognizing and explaining the meaning of idioms and adages. The student will focus on these key language skills by completing sets of focused exercises that increase from easy, to moderate, and then to advanced. This leveled and focused approach will introduce students at a comfortable level and then build on the skills so that students reach and then exceed grade level expectations. Develops 10+ TEKS Language Arts Skills - produces a thorough understanding of idioms - provides practice recognizing the meaning of common phrases - encourages students to understand and relate to adages - helps students identify and analyze the use of sensory language - develops the ability to understand and use similes and metaphors - introduces exaggeration and hyperbole - teaches students to use context to determine meaning - helps students understand the literal and nonliteral meanings of words - increases vocabulary and enhances knowledge of word meanings - develops writing skills including persuasive, descriptive, and narrative writing - enhances reading comprehension skills Key Features - 101 exercises focused on figurative language and sayings - includes exercises covering idioms, common phrases, adages, similes, metaphors, and hyperbole - 10 complete sets of exercises organized into easy, moderate, and advanced - vocabulary, reading level, and difficulty increase through the sets - each set includes a variety of tasks that allow students to develop and then apply new skills - includes a complete answer key STAAR Test Prep While the aim of this book is mainly to develop and enhance language skills, the skills learned will also improve performance on the STAAR Reading test and the STAAR Writing test. The STAAR Reading test includes questions on vocabulary and on sensory language, including similes and metaphors. The strong understanding developed from this book will improve student performance on these questions, as well as increase general reading comprehension skills. The STAAR Writing test includes two composition sections. The language skills developed in this book will encourage stronger word choices, allow students to convey ideas more precisely, produce more engaging writing, and help students produce writing that demonstrates a more advanced level of vocabulary and writing skill. These improvements will increase the scores received for the compositions. The stronger understanding of words and language will also improve student performance on the revision and editing sections of the STAAR Writing test.
Author: Test Master Press Texas Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781975995799 Category : Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
This book has been created to provided targeted practice exercises for the two language skills most requested by teachers and most troublesome for many students. These are understanding similes and metaphors, and recognizing and explaining the meaning of idioms and adages. Key Features - 101 exercises focused on figurative language and sayings - includes exercises covering idioms, common phrases, adages, similes, metaphors, and hyperbole - 10 complete sets of exercises organized into easy, moderate, and advanced - vocabulary, reading level, and difficulty increase through the sets - each set includes a variety of tasks that allow students to develop and then apply new skills - includes a complete answer key Develops 10+ TEKS Language Arts Skills - produces a thorough understanding of idioms - provides practice recognizing the meaning of common phrases - encourages students to understand and relate to adages - helps students identify and analyze the use of sensory language - develops the ability to understand and use similes and metaphors - introduces exaggeration and hyperbole - teaches students to use context to determine meaning - helps students understand the literal and nonliteral meanings of words - increases vocabulary and enhances knowledge of word meanings - develops writing skills including persuasive, descriptive, and narrative writing - enhances reading comprehension skills Improves Performance on the STAAR Reading and STAAR Writing Tests - improves reading comprehension skills - ensures students perform well on questions about vocabulary, sensory language, similes, and metaphors - improves performance on written composition tasks
Author: T. Hawas Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781725626737 Category : Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
This book has been created to provided targeted practice exercises for the two language skills most requested by teachers and most troublesome for many students. These are understanding similes and metaphors, and recognizing and explaining the meaning of idioms and adages. Key Features - 101 exercises focused on figurative language and sayings - includes exercises covering idioms, common phrases, adages, similes, metaphors, and hyperbole - 10 complete sets of exercises organized into easy, moderate, and advanced - vocabulary, reading level, and difficulty increase through the sets - each set includes a variety of tasks that allow students to develop and then apply new skills - includes a complete answer key Develops 10+ TEKS Language Arts Skills - produces a thorough understanding of idioms - provides practice recognizing the meaning of common phrases - encourages students to understand and relate to adages - helps students identify and analyze the use of sensory language - develops the ability to understand and use similes and metaphors - introduces exaggeration and hyperbole - teaches students to use context to determine meaning - helps students understand the literal and nonliteral meanings of words - increases vocabulary and enhances knowledge of word meanings - develops writing skills including persuasive, descriptive, and narrative writing - enhances reading comprehension skills Improves Performance on the STAAR Reading and STAAR Writing Tests - improves reading comprehension skills - ensures students perform well on questions about vocabulary, sensory language, similes, and metaphors - improves performance on written composition tasks
Author: Test Master Press Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781489517685 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
Expand vocabulary and advance language skills to reach and then exceed grade level! Yes! This book aligns to the skills of the Common Core State Standards and the TEKS! Key Features - 101 exercises focused on figurative language and sayings - includes exercises covering idioms, common phrases, similes, metaphors, hyperbole, adages, and proverbs - 10 complete sets of exercises organized into easy, moderate, and advanced - vocabulary, reading level, and difficulty increase from a Grade 2 level right through to a Grade 5 level and higher - each set includes a variety of tasks that allow students to develop and then apply new skills - specifically designed to increase vocabulary and language skills to exceed grade level expectations - includes a complete answer key Aligns to the Common Core Standards The Common Core Standards are a set of standards adopted by most American states. The standards describe what students are expected to be able to do, and list the skills that students learn. Student learning is based on these standards throughout the year, and students in most states are tested based on these standards at the end of the school year. This workbook develops many skills listed in the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, including skills in the reading, writing, and language strands. The major skills covered include interpreting figurative language such as similes and metaphors and recognizing and explaining the meaning of idioms, adages, and proverbs. A complete list of the specific skills covered is included in the back of the book. Matches the Texas Standards The Texas standards, or TEKS, include key skills that are specifically covered by this book. These include identifying the meaning of common idioms, adages, and other sayings, using context to determine word meaning, understanding unfamiliar words and words with multiple meanings, and analyzing the use of similes and metaphors. In addition, the book will develop a range of reading, writing, and language skills covered by the Texas curriculum. One Book, Ten Core Benefits - produces a thorough understanding of idioms - develops the ability to understand and use similes and metaphors - provides practice recognizing the meaning of common phrases - introduces exaggeration and hyperbole - teaches students to use context to determine meaning - helps students understand the literal and nonliteral meanings of words - increases vocabulary and enhances knowledge of word meanings - encourages students to understand and relate to adages and proverbs - develops writing skills including persuasive, descriptive, and narrative writing - enhances reading comprehension skills
Author: Test Mate Learning Resources Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781975959289 Category : Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
This book has been created to provided targeted practice exercises for the two Common Core language skills most requested by teachers and most troublesome for many students. These are understanding similes and metaphors, and recognizing and explaining the meaning of idioms, adages, and proverbs. The student will focus on these key language skills by completing sets of focused exercises that increase from easy, to moderate, and then to advanced. This leveled and focused approach will introduce students at a comfortable level and then build on the skills so that students reach and then exceed grade level expectations. Key Features - 101 exercises focused on figurative language and sayings - includes exercises covering idioms, common phrases, adages, proverbs, similes, metaphors, and hyperbole - 10 complete sets of exercises organized into easy, moderate, and advanced - vocabulary, reading level, and difficulty increase through the sets - each set includes a variety of tasks that allow students to develop and then apply new skills - includes a complete answer key Covers 10+ Common Core Skills - produces a thorough understanding of idioms - encourages students to understand and relate to adages and proverbs - develops the ability to understand and use similes and metaphors - provides practice recognizing the meaning of common phrases - introduces exaggeration and hyperbole - teaches students to use context to determine meaning - helps students understand the literal and nonliteral meanings of words - increases vocabulary and enhances knowledge of word meanings - develops writing skills including persuasive, descriptive, and narrative writing - enhances reading comprehension skills
Author: Murray Bromberg Publisher: ISBN: 9780812037029 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 148
Book Description
A self-help guide to the use of 504 words used regularly by educated people. Includes sentences, articles, exercises and word review sections using the new words.
Author: Chris Schwab Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing ISBN: 1483872424 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Support your middle school child’s language arts learning journey with the Spectrum Language Arts 8th Grade Workbook! Spectrum's middle grade books for language arts learning are a great way for your eighth grader to learn essential ELA skills such as vocabulary, sentence structure, English grammar, and more through a variety of activities that are perfect for both classroom and homeschool curriculum. Lesson reviews are included to test your child's knowledge along the way. The 192-page Spectrum Grade 8 workbook is sized at about 8” x 11”—giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise. Aligned to current state standards, this workbook includes an answer key and a supplemental Writer's Guide to reinforce grammar and language arts concepts. Whether it is at home or in the classroom, Spectrum’s research-supported instruction and activities provide a spectrum of support to meet the individual needs of learners and close learning gaps.
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1408102579 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 719
Book Description
Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.
Author: McGraw-Hill Education Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education ISBN: 9780021192236 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 528
Book Description
Bursting with stories and informational text selections by award-winning authors and illustrators, the Wonders Literature Anthology lets students apply strategies and skills from the Reading/Writing Workshop to extended complex text. Integrate by reading across texts with the Anchor Text and its Paired Selection for each week Build on theme, concept, vocabulary, and comprehension skills & strategies of the Reading/Writing Expand students’ exposure to genre with compelling stories, poems, plays, high-interest nonfiction, and expository selections from Time to Kids
Author: Jerome Shostak Publisher: William H. Sadler ISBN: 9780821571118 Category : High interest-low vocabulary books Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides exercises designed to stimulate vocabulary growth, offers specially designed sections to build skills required for standarized tests, and introduces three hundred new words.
Author: Test Master Press
Author: Test Master Press Texas
Author: T. Hawas
Author: Test Master Press
Author: Test Mate Learning Resources
Author: Murray Bromberg
Author: Chris Schwab
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Author: McGraw-Hill Education
Author: Jerome Shostak