test-taking skills

Explains an easy-to-implement, step-by-step protocol designed to help students improve their writing skills, focusing on constructing well thought out test responses, with lesson plans, narratives and question prompts, tips for monitoring student progress, and an extensive bibliography.

Contains 180 five-minute practice activities designed to help students in grades four through eight improve their test taking skills.

A workbook for preparing to take the critical reading portion of the SAT that includes hundreds of exercises, with explained answers, as well as tips on building vocabulary.

Explains an easy-to-implement, step-by-step protocol designed to help students improve their writing skills, focusing on constructing well thought out test responses, with lesson plans, narratives and question prompts, tips for monitoring student progress, an extensive bibliography, and a CD-ROM with support material.

Discusses how students can use background knowledge, mental images, monitoring, inferring, synthesizing, and other techniques to understand standardized tests and think through problems instead of engaging in artificial preparation activities, with examples of the strategy's application, work samples, lesson ideas, and other tools.

Teachers Amy Greene and Glennon Melton share the classroom strategies they have used to empower students and raise test scores without compromising their beliefs about teaching and learning.

Presents a ten-step program based on the concept that academic success depends on how smart one studies rather than on how hard one studies.