If you are preparing for a teaching career in Massachusetts, passing the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL) Communication and Literacy Skills (01) test is an essential part of the certification process. This easy-to-use e-book helps you develop and practice the skills needed to achieve success on the MTEL. It provides a fully updated, comprehensive review of all areas tested on the official Communication and Literacy Skills (01) assessment, helpful information on the Massachusetts teacher certification and licensing process, and the LearningExpress Test Preparation System, with proven techniques for overcoming test anxiety, planning study time, and improving your results.
A perfect solution to connect the Common Core Standards to comprehension and learning! Common Core Connections series for Math and Language Arts, for kindergarten to grade 5, helps every learner make the connection to success! Provides teachers with the diagnostic tests to help determine individualized instruction needs. Focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning! Grade specific coherent content progresses in difficulty to achieve optimum fluency. Connecting the standards to content has never been easier with the Common Core Connections series for Math and Language Arts. Each 96-page book includes an assessment test, test analysis, Common Core State Standards Alignment Matrix, and answer key.
MTEL English as a Second Language (ESL) Study Guide: Test Prep and Practice Test Questions for the ESL (54) Exam will provide you with a detailed overview of the MTEL ESOL exam, so you know exactly what to expect on test day. We'll take you through all the concepts covered on the test and give you the opportunity to test your knowledge with practice questions. Even if it's been a while since you last took a major test, don't worry; we'll make sure you're more than ready Cirrus Test Prep's MTEL English as a Second Language (ESL) Study Guide: Test Prep and Practice Test Questions for the ESL (54) Exam includes: A comprehensive REVIEW of: Linguistics Theory Linguistics and Culture Grammar and Parts of Speech Language Learning and Acquisition Theoretical Models of Second Language Learning and Acquisition First-Language Considerations Stages of Second-Language Acquisition Student Motivation in Second-Language Learning Language Modeling, Comprehensible Input, and Scaffolding Literacy Instruction Instructional Theory Program Models Teaching Techniques Materials Classroom Management Assessment Tests and Standards Appropriate Use of Tests Interpreting and Applying Assessment Results Cultural Aspects Cultural Understanding Cultural Aspects That Affect Second-Language Acquisition English-Language Learners, and Teaching Cultural Awareness, Sensitivity, and Inclusion Professional Aspects Legal and Ethical Issues Role of the ESL Teacher Professional Development ...as well as a FULL MTEL ESOL practice test.
With the Finish Line for ELLs 2.0 workbook, English language learners can improve their performance across the language domains and become familiar with item types on state ELP assessments
The Expert Guide from Kaplan for 2021 entry One test stands between you and a place at the medical school of your dreams: the UCAT. With 1,500 questions, test-like practice exams, a question bank, and online test updates, Kaplan’s Score Higher on the UCAT, sixth edition, will help build your confidence and make sure you achieve a high score. We know it's crucial that you go into your UCAT exam equipped with the most up-to-date information available. Score Higher on the UCAT comes with access to additional online resources, including any recent exam changes, hundreds of questions, an online question bank, and a mock online test with full worked answers to ensure that there are no surprises waiting for you on test day. The Most Practice 1,500 questions in the book and online—more than any other UCAT book Three full-length tests: one mock online test to help you practise for speed and accuracy in a test-like interface, and two tests with worked answers in the book Online question bank to fine-tune and master your performance on specific question types Expert Guidance The authors of Score Higher on the UCAT have helped thousands of students prepare for the exam. They offer invaluable tips and strategies for every section of the test, helping you to avoid the common pitfalls that trip up other UCAT students. We invented test preparation—Kaplan (www.kaptest.co.uk) has been helping students for 80 years. Our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams.
Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for second grade contains reproducible activities designed to help students learn these skills and concepts: -fluency -writing comprehension -phonics The Language Arts 4 Today book for second grade aligns with current state standards. Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for second grade provides 40 weeks of learning activities for each day of the week. This language arts workbook for students only requires 10 minutes of review and practice each day, and it includes fluency activities, reproducible activities, and writing prompts. An assessment of the skills covered for the week is provided for the fifth day to help teachers easily monitor progress. The 4 Today series is a comprehensive, quick, and easy-to-use language arts workbook. The reproducible activities review essential skills during a four-day period. On the fifth day, an assessment with related skills is provided. Each week begins with a Fluency Blast section to provide students with repeated, daily practice for essential skills. The format and style of the 4 Today books provide excellent practice for standardized tests. The series also includes a fluency-tracking reproducible, a standards alignment chart, tips for fostering a school-to-home connection, and an answer key.
B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It's time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind. He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists call him the Moonbird because, in the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, this gritty, four-ounce marathoner has flown the distance to the moon—and halfway back! B95 is a robin-sized shorebird, a red knot of the subspecies rufa. Each February he joins a flock that lifts off from Tierra del Fuego, headed for breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic, nine thousand miles away. Late in the summer, he begins the return journey. B95 can fly for days without eating or sleeping, but eventually he must descend to refuel and rest. However, recent changes at ancient refueling stations along his migratory circuit—changes caused mostly by human activity—have reduced the food available and made it harder for the birds to reach. And so, since 1995, when B95 was first captured and banded, the worldwide rufa population has collapsed by nearly 80 percent. Most perish somewhere along the great hemispheric circuit, but the Moonbird wings on. He has been seen as recently as November 2011, which makes him nearly twenty years old. Shaking their heads, scientists ask themselves: How can this one bird make it year after year when so many others fall? National Book Award–winning author Phillip Hoose takes us around the hemisphere with the world's most celebrated shorebird, showing the obstacles rufa red knots face, introducing a worldwide team of scientists and conservationists trying to save them, and offering insights about what we can do to help shorebirds before it's too late. With inspiring prose, thorough research, and stirring images, Hoose explores the tragedy of extinction through the triumph of a single bird. Moonbird is one The Washington Post's Best Kids Books of 2012. A Common Core Title.
Early childhood mathematics is vitally important for young children's present and future educational success. Research demonstrates that virtually all young children have the capability to learn and become competent in mathematics. Furthermore, young children enjoy their early informal experiences with mathematics. Unfortunately, many children's potential in mathematics is not fully realized, especially those children who are economically disadvantaged. This is due, in part, to a lack of opportunities to learn mathematics in early childhood settings or through everyday experiences in the home and in their communities. Improvements in early childhood mathematics education can provide young children with the foundation for school success. Relying on a comprehensive review of the research, Mathematics Learning in Early Childhood lays out the critical areas that should be the focus of young children's early mathematics education, explores the extent to which they are currently being incorporated in early childhood settings, and identifies the changes needed to improve the quality of mathematics experiences for young children. This book serves as a call to action to improve the state of early childhood mathematics. It will be especially useful for policy makers and practitioners-those who work directly with children and their families in shaping the policies that affect the education of young children.
“This eloquent, elegant book thoughtfully plumbs the . . . consequences of our dependence on plastics” (The Boston Globe, A Best Nonfiction Book of 2011). From pacemakers to disposable bags, plastic built the modern world. But a century into our love affair, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy relationship. As journalist Susan Freinkel points out in this eye-opening book, we’re at a crisis point. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. We’re drowning in the stuff, and we need to start making some hard choices. Freinkel tells her story through eight familiar plastic objects: a comb, a chair, a Frisbee, an IV bag, a disposable lighter, a grocery bag, a soda bottle, and a credit card. With a blend of lively anecdotes and analysis, she sifts through scientific studies and economic data, reporting from China and across the United States to assess the real impact of plastic on our lives. Her conclusion is severe, but not without hope. Plastic points the way toward a new creative partnership with the material we love, hate, and can’t seem to live without. “When you write about something so ubiquitous as plastic, you must be prepared to write in several modes, and Freinkel rises to this task. . . . She manages to render the most dull chemical reaction into vigorous, breathless sentences.” —SF Gate “Freinkel’s smart, well-written analysis of this love-hate relationship is likely to make plastic lovers take pause, plastic haters reluctantly realize its value, and all of us understand the importance of individual action, political will, and technological innovation in weaning us off our addiction to synthetics.” —Publishers Weekly “A compulsively interesting story. Buy it (with cash).” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature “What a great read—rigorous, smart, inspiring, and as seductive as plastic itself.” —Karim Rashid, designer
