Schaum's Quick Guide to the SAT

Schaum's Quick Guide to the SAT

Author: Dawn B. Sova

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2000-09

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780071354011

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*Build your vocabulary *Develop verbal reasoning *Analyze words and phrases *Improve your score 100 points THE VERBAL SAT ... THE SCHAUM’S WAY Master the material on the three types of questions presented in the verbal portion of the SAT with savvy tips, expert techniques, and insider strategies from one of the field’s top instructors. Discover how to use prefixes, suffixes, and roots to break down and analyze words. Learn the basic verbal reasoning skills that will enable you to confidently answer questions on: *reading comprehension *sentence completion *analogies Depend on this always handy, encouraging guide. Look to Schaum’s Quick Guides for: *Step-by-step guidance to help you move quickly through the essentials *Do’s and don’ts for avoiding common errors *Clear explanations and practice exams with complete answers *Checklists and exercises for fast skill-building Use this Schaum’s Quick Guide to help you look forward to your best verbal SAT scores ever!


Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Short Stories

Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Short Stories

Author: Margaret Lucke

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 1998-10-22

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780070390775

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Margaret Lucke highlights the essential elements of a short story, its characters, conflict, plot, setting, and narrative voice and explains how each contributes to the success of the story. The text also includes a number of practice exercises.


Stimulating Emerging Story Writing!

Stimulating Emerging Story Writing!

Author: Simon Brownhill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-16

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1317618866

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Stimulating Emerging Story Writing! Inspiring Children aged 3-7 offers innovative and exciting ways to inspire young children to want to create stories and develop their emerging story writing skills. This practical guide offers comprehensive and informed support for professionals to effectively engage ‘child authors’ in stimulating story writing activities. Packed full of story ideas, resource suggestions and practical activities, the book explores the various ways professionals can help young children to develop the six key elements of story, these being character, setting, plot, conflict, resolution and ending. All of the ideas in the book are designed to support a setting’s daily writing provision such as mark making opportunities, role play and using simple open ended play resources. Separated into two sections and with reference to the EYFS and Key Stage 1 curricula, this timely new text provides practitioners with tried and tested strategies and ideas that can be used with immediate effect. Chapters include: Creating Characters The Plot Thickens Inspired Ideas Resourcing the Story Stimulation This timely new text is the perfect guide for inspiring young children aged 3-7 in the classroom and will be an essential resource for practitioners, teachers and students on both early years and teacher training courses.


Stimulating Story Writing!

Stimulating Story Writing!

Author: Simon Brownhill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-16

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1317618920

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Stimulating Story Writing! Inspiring Children aged 7-11 offers innovative and exciting ways to inspire children to want to create stories and develop their story writing skills. This practical guide offers comprehensive and informed support for professionals to effectively engage ‘child authors’ in stimulating story writing activity. Packed full of story ideas, resource suggestions and practical activities, the book explores various ways professionals can help children to develop the six key elements of story, these being character, setting, plot, conflict, resolution and ending. All of the ideas in the book are designed to complement and enrich existing writing provision in classrooms with strategies such as role play, the use of different technologies, and using simple open ended resources as story stimuli. Separated into two sections and with reference to the Key Stage 2 curricula, this timely new text provides professionals with tried and tested strategies and ideas that can be used with immediate effect. Chapters include: • Creating Characters • The Plot Thickens • Inspired Ideas • Resourcing the Story Stimulation This timely new text is the perfect guide for inspiring children aged 7-11 in the classroom and will be an essential resource for teachers and students on teacher training courses.


Gruber's Complete SAT Guide 2014

Gruber's Complete SAT Guide 2014

Author: Gary R. Gruber

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781402279737

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SAT PREP, PRACTICE TESTS, AND PROVEN TEST-TAKING SKILLS AND STRATEGIES Improve your SAT scores with Dr. Gary Gruber's Complete SAT Guide, now updated in its 17th edition. Featuring 5 full-length practice tests, targeted sections on Math, Critical Reading, and Writing, plus exclusive critical thinking strategies for finding the right answers in less time, Gruber's Complete SAT Guide has all the tools college-bound high school students need to earn top scores. Trusted by students, teachers, and tutors for more than 30 years, Dr. Gary Gruber is the leading authority on the SAT and test prep tips and tactics, proving the effectiveness of structured SAT preparation by raising thousands of students' SAT scores. In this study guide, Gruber evaluates why students choose the wrong answers, builds the core knowledge necessary for the test and provides unparalleled insight and advice, giving test-takers the tools and critical approach they need to solve the questions they miss most often. STUDENTS GET THE SKILLS THAT UNLOCK THE RIGHT ANSWERS With the explanation to a question, you can only answer that one question. With the exclusive Gruber strategies, you can answer thousands of questions! These strategies show you how to think about problems instead of trying to solve each one individually and can be used consistently on every SAT test. "This book teaches critical thinking strategies which are essential for not only the SAT, but other examinations you will take in high school and college. I cannot recommend the strategies highly enough. Other SAT test prep books teach you tricks. The Gruber book teaches you thinking strategies which will serve you for years to come."-Amazon VineTM Voice Reviewer, Petrosian EXCLUSIVE SAT PREP TOOLS THAT'LL REDUCE TEST-TAKING STRESS - Inside information on how SAT questions are created - The 101 most important math questions you need to know how to solve - Unique diagnostic test shows you why you got questions wrong-and how to get them right - Mini-math refresher - Complete math refresher - Brief and complete grammar review - The most important SAT vocabulary - The world's shortest SAT test (just 18 questions!) with complete answer explanations that show you the exact basic skills and strategies you needto markedly improve your score - Five Complete Practice SAT tests with detailed answers explained and keyed to specific strategies and skills WHAT THE MEDIA IS SAYING "Gary Gruber is the most prominent guru of SAT preparation."-Chicago Tribune "His methods make the questions seem amazingly simple to solve."-Library Journal "Dr. Gruber knows the ins and outs of the SAT."-LosAngeles Times "Gary Gruber is the leading expert on the SAT."-Houston Chronicle