Rise and Shine STAAR Prep Grade 8 Science


Book Description

The fully aligned Rise & Shine STAAR Prep Science workbooks - now available for grade 5 and 8 - provide students with hours of practice in all areas covered by the Texas Standards. Our STAAR Science titles are 100% aligned with STAAR standards for science. Each workbook is directly aligned to the STAAR objectives. The questions match the format that students can expect to see on STAAR exams. Hundreds of practice questions ensure that students are familiar with the STAAR science exam format before walking into the test. Many questions involve graphic representations, an important part of the STAAR exam. Teacher editions include extensive test-specific introductory guides and show correct and suggested answers for each of the questions asked, as well as targeted skill for those questions. Our science workbooks are the most effective test preparation available today.Great for home schooling as well!










Rise & Shine Staar Prep Reading Comprehension Grade 8


Book Description

100% Aligned with STAAR Standards for Reading Comprehension! These books are designed to prepare your students for the Reading portion of the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR). Many states measure achievement in reading by assessing student progress on benchmark objectives identified in their state standards. The state of Texas is one of those states. This book provides teachers with a variety of reading passages and questions that help assess student knowledge of reading standards tested on the STAAR. This practice book provides reading passages that consist of narrative text, expository text, and mixed passages. Expository passages include informative, biographical, autobiographical, and how-to selections. Mixed passages put two different kinds of writing together in one selection. Questions follow each passage. Each question is designed to assess a specific STAAR standard. Teacher Editions contain an answer key which tells you the type of passage, higher level vocabulary found in each passage, each standard tested along with its correct answer, and a list of possible extension activities. Teacher Editions also include a bibliography and a reading benchmark standards matrix showing which passage assesses which standards. Each of these workbooks provides hours of on-grade-level reading comprehension practice. Passages range in readability to allow for differentiated instruction. The grades 3-8 Reading Comprehension titles are great test preparation tools. These books are also great for home schooling!




Rise and Shine STAAR Prep Grade 8 Editing and Revising Teacher Edition


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Do you need a resource to give your students extensive practice in the often difficult and elusive skills of editing and revising? These workbooksmay be just what you're looking for. Students are required to read passages embedded with errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization. They are then asked multiple-choice questions designed to help them recognize and correct these mistakes. These exercises will help students to better understand the essentialskills of finding and correcting editorial problems and revising writing appropriately. Students will soon be on their way to mastering these two very important steps in the writing process.• Hours of practice on skills leading to editing and revising mastery.• High-interest passages embedded with the most common errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization.• Multiple-choice questions after each passage help students find, recognize and correct mistakes.• Teacher Editions provide correct answers and identify the skill targeted in each question. Grade Levels 2–8. Also great for home schooling!




Rise & Shine Staar Prep Grade 8


Book Description

Do you need a resource to give your students extensive practice in the often difficult and elusive skills of editing and revising? These workbooksmay be just what you're looking for. Students are required to read passages embedded with errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization. They are then asked multiple-choice questions designed to help them recognize and correct these mistakes. These exercises will help students to better understand the essentialskills of finding and correcting editorial problems and revising writing appropriately. Students will soon be on their way to mastering these two very important steps in the writing process.• Hours of practice on skills leading to editing and revising mastery.• High-interest passages embedded with the most common errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization.• Multiple-choice questions after each passage help students find, recognize and correct mistakes.• Teacher Editions provide correct answers and identify the skill targeted in each question. Grade Levels 2–8. Also great for home schooling!




Getting Ready for the 4th Grade Assessment Tests


Book Description

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.




Silk Umbrellas


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"A sensitive portrayal of a family in Thailand. . . . This gracefully told story will resonate with many young readers." — Booklist (starred review) Eleven-year-old Noi is learning to paint like her grandmother. She and her older sister, Ting, spend many rapt hours in the jungle watching as Kun Ya paints delicate silk umbrellas to sell at the market. But one day Kun Ma and Kun Pa announce that Ting must start working at a local radio factory to help support the family. As the days and weeks pass, Noi anxiously sees her own fate reflected in her sister’s constricting world. Can Noi find a way to master her fear of failure and stand up for her gift — and Kun Ya’s tradition — before the future masters her?




The Book Thief


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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.




Daily Warm-Ups: Reading, Grade 2


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Quick, easy, effective activities support standards and help students improve skills they need for success in testing.