Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day


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Quick and concise reading comprehension practice, with a pretest, lessons & exercises, a posttest, and access to a free, online, practice center.







Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day


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Increase your reading power in just 4 weeks! Includes new "before and after" score-yourself tests.




180 Days of Reading for Fifth Grade: Practice, Assess, Diagnose


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Encourage fifth-grade students to build their reading comprehension and word study skills using daily practice activities. Great for after school, intervention, or homework, teachers and parents can help students gain regular practice through these quick, diagnostic-based activities that are correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards. Both fiction and nonfiction reading passages are provided as well as data-driven assessment tips and digital versions of the assessment analysis tools and activities. With these easy-to-use activities, fifth graders will boost their reading skills in a hurry!




Red Storm Rising


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From the author of the Jack Ryan series comes an electrifying #1 New York Times bestseller—a standalone military thriller that envisions World War 3... A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. Using the latest advancements in military technology, the world's superpowers battle on land, sea, and air for ultimate global control. It is a story you will never forget. Hard-hitting. Suspenseful. And frighteningly real. “Harrowing...tense...a chilling ring of truth.”—TIME




Write & Speak Like a Professional in 20 Minutes a Day


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These new additions to LearningExpress's successful 20 Minutes a Day Series dive deeply into the soft skills workers need to know in order to succeed and thrive in any workplace.




LSAT Reading Comprehension


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Designed around the real-world legal applications of reading comprehension, the Manhattan Prep Reading Comprehension LSAT Strategy Guide is an essential tool for a surprisingly tricky part of the LSAT. Containing the best of Manhattan Prep’s expert strategies, this book will train you to approach the LSAT as a law student would approach a legal text—actively and with a purpose. The Reading Comprehension LSAT Strategy Guide teaches you how to recognize the core argument and then use it as a framework on which to organize the entire passage, improving the speed and clarity with which you read. To further improve your reading, it walks you through the process of annotation, discussing where and how to take notes in order to maximize your comprehension without eating up precious time. It also looks at what types of questions the LSAT asks and then arms you with the skills you need to spot issues and identify correct answers. Each chapter in the Reading Comprehension LSAT Strategy Guide features drills and full practice sets—made up of real LSAT questions—to help you absorb and apply what you’ve learned, while numerous, in-depth solutions walk you through the process of selecting the right answer and help you to achieve mastery. Further practice sets and other additional resources are included online and can be accessed through the Manhattan Prep website. Used by itself or with other Manhattan Prep materials, the Reading Comprehension LSAT Strategy Guide will push you to your top score.




Triple Your Reading Speed


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Read faster and improve your comprehension skills.




Research and Writing Skills


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Writing a research paper can be a huge undertaking. To produce the best results, you need to be selective in choosing and defining your topic, take key steps as you go through the research process, be very organized when collecting data from your sources, and then assemble all your information into a coherent, legible, and rational document. It takes skill to complete the steps that will get a top result. Follow the easy 20-step process to strengthen your research and writing skills and get the results you need. What makes RESEARCH SKILLS SUCCESS so effective? - The introductory diagnostic test helps you find your strengths and weaknesses. - A streamlined approach-20 easy to follow steps-leads you through the research process with style and efficiency. - Emphasis on the organization process allows the research paper to virtually write itself. - Examples and models give you a benchmark for your own work. - Each step takes a relatively short amount of time. - The post test helps you measure what you have learned. - EXTRA! The appendices provide a list of style manuals and research topics you can use.




Potato Pants!


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A potato and his eggplant nemesis struggle to find the perfect pants in this hilarious, heartwarming tale of forgiveness by bestselling Geisel-Award winning creator Laurie Keller. Potato is excited because today—for one day only— Lance Vance’s Fancy Pants Store is selling . . .POTATO PANTS! Potato rushes over early, but just as he’s about to walk in, something makes him stop. What could it be? Find out in this one-of-a-kind story about misunderstandings and forgiveness, and—of course—Potato Pants! A Christy Ottaviano Book This title has Common Core connections.