Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking, Grades 3-5
by Gruber, Gary R.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-09-01
Publisher(s): Sourcebooks Inc
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Summary
With or without No Child Left Behind, test taking is more important than ever. A must for parents helping their children understand the important thinking strategies needed in all test-taking areas, Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking: Grades 3-5 helps them realize their child's true potential. Using the exclusive Gruber methods, this book will give parents and teachers strategies to "nip in the bud" any faulty thinking approaches when it comes to education and testing and enforce the correct approaches. Gruber's methods are a true confidence developer for children. Parents often claim when working with these books with their children that they wish they had been exposed to this material when they were in school. "Gruber, the most prominent test-preperation guru, can ring the bell on any standardized test." -Chicago Tribune "This is not a gimmick-it gets results." -Dr. Larry Weitz, psychologist, WLAC Radio
Table of Contents
| Introduction to Parents | |
| A Word About the Psychology of Working with Your Child | |
| What Parents Should Know About Standardized Tests | |
| Four General Test-Taking Skills | |
| Verbal Strategies | |
| Analogies Analogy Strategy: Always Put Analogies in Sentence Form Most Common Types of Analogies Practice Exercises and Explanatory Answers | |
| Vocabulary | |
| Vocabulary Strategy | |
| Learn Prefixes and Roots Vocabulary Strategy | |
| Learn Suffixes Essential Word List for Grades 3 - 4 - 5 Sentence Completions Sentence Completion Strategy | |
| Try All of the Choices Sentence Completion Strategy | |
| Look for Clues and Key Words Sentence | |
| Completion Exercises and Explanatory Answers | |
| Reading Comprehension (Two Strategies) | |
| Reading Passages, Questions, and Explanatory Answers | |
| Writing Ability Punctuation Capitalization English Expression Choosing the Right Word | |
| Math Strategies | |
| A Note to Parents Basic Math Strategies Math Strategy | |
| Know How to Approach Solutions to Math Questions Math Strategy | |
| Use Math Symbols for Words Math Strategy | |
| Know When and How to Approximate Math Strategy | |
| Try Specific Numbers Math Strategy | |
| Start with Last Choice When Testing Choices Math Strategy | |
| Use Visual Thinking Quantitative Comparison Quantitative Comparison Strategy | |
| Cancel Numbers Common to Both Columns Quantitative Comparison Strategy | |
| To Simplify, You Can Multiply, Divide, Add, or Subtract the Same Number in Both Columns Quantitative Comparison Strategy | |
| Use Common Sense to Answer Questions Math Refresher | |
| Review (Essential Math Skills) | |
| Math Words, Concepts, and Rules Your Child Should Know Math Shortcuts | |
| Your Child Should Know | |
| The Fifty Basic Math Problems for Grades 3 - 4 - 5 Solutions to the Fifty Basic Math Problems | |
| Hot Prefixes and Roots | |
| The Dangers of National School Entrance Testing | |
| About the Author | |
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