Getting Ready for the 4th Grade Assessment Test: Help Improve Your Child’s Math and English Skills – Many parents are expressing a demand for books that will help their children succeed and excel on the fourth grade assessment tests in math and English –especially in areas where children have limited access to computers. This book will help students practice basic math concepts, i.e., number sense and applications as well as more difficult math, such as patterns, functions, and algebra. English skills will include practice in reading comprehension, writing, and vocabulary. Rubrics are included for self-evaluation.
Antoine of Oregon : A Story of the Oregon Trail The author of this series of stories for children has endeavored simply to show why and how the descendants of the early colonists fought their way through the wilderness in search of new homes. The several narratives deal with the struggles of those adventurous people who forced their way westward, ever westward, whether in hope of gain or in answer to "the call of the wild," and who, in so doing, wrote their names with their blood across this country of ours from the Ohio to the Columbia. To excite in the hearts of the young people of this land a desire to know more regarding the building up of this great nation, and at the same time to entertain in such a manner as may stimulate to noble deeds, is the real aim of these stories. In them there is nothing of romance, but only a careful, truthful record of the part played by children in the great battles with those forces, human as well as natural, which, for so long a time, held a vast 4 portion of this broad land against the advance of home seekers. With the knowledge of what has been done by our own people in our own land, surely there is no reason why one should resort to fiction in order to depict scenes of heroism, daring, and sublime disregard of suffering in nearly every form.
Dual language education is a program that combines language minority and language majority students for instruction through two languages. This book provides the conceptual background for the program and discusses major implementation issues. Research findings summarize language proficiency and achievement outcomes from 8000 students at 20 schools, along with teacher and parent attitudes.
This book contains one full-length OLSAT(R) Grade 3 Level D practice test (PRACTICE TEST ONE), which provides gifted and talented OLSAT test preparation.The OLSAT Level D practice test is for 3rd Grade students applying for entry into Gifted and Talented 4th Grade programs. Using this practice test will help prepare your child prepare for the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT(R)), an exam used for admission to many schools, including the California GATE program, some Gifted and Talented NYC schools, and other coveted programs for the education of the gifted. What's Inside this OLSAT Grade 3 (Grade 4 Entry) practice workbook? One full-length practice test. Each practice test contains 64 OLSAT(R) practice questions covering all question types to help your child improve the logical and visual reasoning skills required to excel on the OLSAT(R). Includes practice questions on: Antonyms Sentence Arrangement Sentence Completion Arithmetic Reasoning Logical Selection Verbal and Figural Analogies Verbal and Figural Classifications Verbal Analogies Word/letter Matrices / Numeric Matrices / Pattern Matrices Numeric and Figural Series This gifted workbook also includes: Essential test prep strategies to help students avoid mistakes and achieve their best score. Detailed descriptions of question types. Detailed answer explanations and bubble sheets. GATE book Grade 3 / NYC Gifted and Talented Grade 3 Programs Each practice test can be used for GATE examination test prep to help your student qualify for gifted programs in California. Our assessments can also be used to prepare for NYC gifted testing programs. Use our Grade 3 workbook to help your 3rd Grader prepare to take gifted tests that assess whether she/he may be admitted into popular and competitive 4th Grade Gifted and Talented programs. Classroom Assessment The OLSAT-D can also be used as an assessment tool by teachers to determine which students would benefit from an accelerated or remedial curriculum. Why use our Gifted and Talented Test Prep books? Our goal is to provide you with the very best OLSAT test prep materials, and the best value for your money. We created our test prep material because we could not find enough good practice material to effectively prepare students for gifted and talented tests. As tutors and teachers, we have used various test prep books and have found that they either have an incorrect difficulty level or are overly expensive. After studying original materials from test creators and testing them on children, we are confident our materials and tests reflect the real OLSAT(R) Level D practice test both in difficulty and in structure. Other books available: If you want to buy two practice tests together, please purchase: OLSAT Level D (Test 1 and 2) IBSN: 978-1-948255-54-7. If you want to buy another practice test, please purchase: OLSAT Level D (Test 1) IBSN: 978-1-948255-68-4 The Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT(R)) is a registered trademark of are registered trademarks of NCS Pearson. NCS Pearson was not involved in the production of, nor endorses, this practice test created by Origins Publications and the Gifted and Talented OLSAT Test Prep team.
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: When two greedy jungle cats discover a large piece of cheese, they can't decide how to divide it fairly. The clever monkey comes to their rescue. Or so they think. After reading this trickster tale from West Africa, you will think twice before asking a monkey for help.
The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness.
Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0134403398. This book is the ideal source for teaching oral language, reading, writing, and the content areas in English to K-12 English learners. In an approach unlike most other books in the field, "Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL" looks at contemporary language acquisition theory as it relates to instruction and provides detailed suggestions and methods for motivating, involving, and teaching English language learners. Praised for its strong research base, engaging style, and inclusion of specific teaching ideas, the book offers thorough coverage of oral language, reading, writing, and academic content area instruction in English for K-12 English learners. Thoroughly updated throughout, the new edition includes a new chapter on using the Internet and other digital technologies to engage students and promote learning, many new teaching strategies, new and revised activities, and new writing samples. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded videos and assessments. Improve mastery and retention with the Enhanced Pearson eText* The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content. The Enhanced Pearson eText is: Engaging. The new interactive, multimedia learning features were developed by the authors and other subject-matter experts to deepen and enrich the learning experience. Convenient. Enjoy instant online access from your computer or download the Pearson eText App to read on or offline on your iPad(r) and Android(r) tablet.* Affordable.The Enhanced Pearson eText may be purchased stand-alone for 50-60% less than a print bound book. * "The Enhanced eText features are only available in the Pearson eText format. They are not available in third-party eTexts or downloads." "*The Pearson eText App is available on Google Play and in the App Store. It requires Android OS 3.1-4, a 7 or 10 tablet, or iPad iOS 5.0 or later." "
This book contains practice questions and detailed answer explanations to help students master subjects including ratios and proportional relationships, the number system, expressions and equations, geometry, and statistics and probability.
A comprehensive look at the promise and potential of online learning In our digital age, students have dramatically new learning needs and must be prepared for the idea economy of the future. In Getting Smart, well-known global education expert Tom Vander Ark examines the facets of educational innovation in the United States and abroad. Vander Ark makes a convincing case for a blend of online and onsite learning, shares inspiring stories of schools and programs that effectively offer "personal digital learning" opportunities, and discusses what we need to do to remake our schools into "smart schools." Examines the innovation-driven world, discusses how to combine online and onsite learning, and reviews "smart tools" for learning Investigates the lives of learning professionals, outlines the new employment bargain, examines online universities and "smart schools" Makes the case for smart capital, advocates for policies that create better learning, studies smart cultures
