Test Preparation
Give students the skills and practice they need to succeed on state and national assessments with focused instruction, diagnostic and practice tests, model questions, progress monitoring, and more.
English Language Arts Companion
Close the gaps to ELA success
- Standards-based instruction, practice, and assessment designed to build students’ mastery in English Language Arts.
- Using authentic literature, each lesson develops a standards-based skill through four steps to success—skill/concept introduction, guided instruction, independent practice, and application.
- Three full-length practice tests diagnose proficiency, measure progress, and ensure mastery and stamina for state exams.
- Five writing workshops help students analyze prompts, evaluate writing effectiveness, and develop their independent writing skills.
Writing Companion
Build competence and confidence through concise, focused minilessons!
- Each chapter features step-by-step instruction for a commonly tested writing genre such as a research report, narrative, opinion/argumentative, informative/explanatory, and literary analysis.
- Starting with a source text, students focus on the key elements that distinguish good writing for the genre.
—Scaffolded tasks help students break down each element into manageable chunks.
—Each task builds upon the last, leading to a finished product.
—You Try It writing performance tasks provide test practice and additional feedback opportunity. - Student models, differentiated instruction, and group/partner activities all help strengthen writing skills and understanding.
- Editing skills practice of common language and style issues.
Review, Practice & Mastery—English Language Arts
Prepare students for state assessments
- Diagnostic Tryout Test—standards-based questions determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and guide individual instruction.
- Comprehensive coverage—all standards are covered in depth.
- Authentic texts—lessons are built on well-regarded fiction and informational excerpts and complete works, many featuring exemplar texts and exemplar authors.
- Close reading—students return to the selections to offer textual evidence to substantiate their answers.
- Writing in response to reading—students demonstrate a deep understanding of selections by using textual evidence to write about what they have read.
- Progress monitoring—unit practice tests assess skills practiced and reviewed.
- Mastery Test—standards-based questions mirror those on CCSS assessments to measure progress and skill mastery.
- Teacher Editions include an answer key for the Tryout Test, all unit problems, and the Mastery Test; skills charts; Common Core State Standards per grade level; and useful tips for the teacher.
Reviewing English Language Arts
Prepare students for success on ELA Exit and End-of-Course Exams
- Provides targeted instruction for reading, writing, and language skills commonly assessed on English Language Arts Exit and End-of-Course Exams. Students develop the skills needed for success through guided practice and assessment of key skills and concepts within state standards.
- Lessons include exemplar texts and high-quality, grade-level fiction, poetry, drama, and informational texts. Questions and tasks elicit sustained attention to the text and require the use of textual evidence, including supporting valid inferences from the text.
- Instruction focuses on key writing types with lessons that include the characteristics of good writing, argumentative, informational, and literary analysis.
- Assess understanding of targeted skills and concepts with guided support throughout the lesson, ending with a final independent assessment of all skills taught within the lesson.
ACT/SAT
Your comprehensive solution for test success!
- The only series designed for either classroom or independent study!
- Thorough subject review, extensive practice, expert test strategies, and multiple practice exams for each part of the ACT or SAT make these an indispensable part of test preparation.
- Each Preparing for the ACT book contains diagnostic tests with corresponding study charts and four complete practice tests with explanations.
- Each Preparing for the SAT book contains a diagnostic test and correlation chart to identify strengths/weaknesses, scaffolded lessons, flexible pacing guides for classroom instruction, and multiple full-length practice exams.
- Digital editions also available!
Math Companion
The perfect companion for your math classroom!
- Systematic, standards-based instruction, practice, and assessment designed to build students’ mastery.
- Using the four-step process, diagnose student performance, target the most important topics, and guide students through scaffolded instruction, practice, and assessment.
- Each lesson begins with an assessment of prior knowledge, builds the targeted skill through guided practice, and develops students’ competence and confidence using independent practice and partner activities.
- Unit Practice Tests provide a range of standardized test items to assess progress and identify areas requiring additional instruction or intervention.
- Individualize instruction through diagnostic tests, lesson progress monitoring, and unit tests, calibrate preparedness for state tests using two full-length assessments.
Review, Practice & Mastery—Math
Prepare students for state assessments
- Review and practice of Common Core State Standards prepares students for assessments. The comprehensive coverage ensures all standards are covered in depth.
- Follow the four steps to success
1. Diagnostic Tryout Test—standards-based questions determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and guide individual instruction.
2. Scaffolded Review—step-by-step boxes model strategies for solving problems.
3. Authentic Practice—selected-response, short answer, and constructed response questions feature application of math skills to everyday problems.
4. Mastery Test—standards-based questions mirror those on CCSS assessments to measure progress and skill mastery. - Teacher Editions include an answer key, skills charts, Common Core State Standards per grade level, and useful teacher tips.
Better Test Scores—Texas
Targeted review of mathematics, reading, and science TEKS
- Help prepare your students for the STAAR assessments using this program developed with Texas teachers.
- Review each of the tested TEKS, practice using a gradual release of responsibility, and assess progress with items matched to the STAAR tests.
- Diagnose proficiency and inform instruction using the built-in pre-test.
- Gauge mastery with the full-length practice STAAR test.
- Spanish editions available for grades 3 to 5.
