Sweaty palms, ticking clocks, and parental pressures. Throw in a reading about the artistic influence of Jan Lievens and the value of n – m, and you have a recipe for high-stakes tests like the ACT and the SAT. For the past four years, I’ve worked as both a college writing instructor and an ACT/SAT tutor for English, reading, and writing. Most importantly, though, I’m also the mom of teenagers preparing to apply for college. Here are my thoughts: 4 Things to Know About the ACT and SAT 1. First of all, let’s get this out of the way: The tests are designed to be tricky and, frankly, unfair. The ACT reading test is not a reading comprehension test. It’s...
The following was syndicated from Quora for The Fatherly Forum, a community of parents and influencers with insights about work, family, and life. If you’d like to join the Forum, drop us a line at TheForum@Fatherly.com.What are the most important things I can teach my child?It’s said that you don’t want to give someone a fish, but to teach them how to fish. Well, if modern parenting doctrine is followed, you don’t just want to teach them how to fish, you want to instill a deep and relentless hunger for fish and an expectation that they should not only learn how but keep iterating on the process until one day they’ve built a fishing trawler out of LEGOs and deploy...
JUNIE B JONES BOO AND I MEAN IT!Junie B Jones is up to some Halloween themed antics in Boo... and I Mean It! Junie B Jones is afraid to go trick-or-treating because of the scary creatures...and some especially scary secrets that Paulie Allan Puffer has told her! So Junie B decides to dress as a scary creature herself, to scare everything else away. She decides to be a clown, because what is scarier than clowns!? Unfortunately for June B, no one is afraid of her when she's wearing her clown costume. She goes to bed upset that she hasn't managed to scare anyone...until her dad comes into her room at night and is startled that Junie has her clown makeup...
DISCLAIMER: I received this complimentary product through the Homeschool Review Crew For the last few weeks, the kids have been expanding their vocabulary using Vocabulary Virtuoso: Mastering Middle School Vocabulary from The Critical Thinking Co.™ . This digital vocabulary workbook for middle school students helps to increase vocabulary, stimulates imagination, and boosts standards-based language arts skills and teaches 180 PSAT vocabulary words.Vocabulary Virtuoso is a middle school level vocabulary curriculum that includes 15 weeks of activities that help to expand students vocabulary. This curriculum is a 164 page, printable PDF file that includes activities such as identifying words, using them correctly in given sentences, and having students write their own sentences using the words each week. Each lesson contains definitions,...
What started off as a way to work through my TBR pile landed me in the realm of speed reading and reduced reading comprehension.
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