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These guides help teachers understand how federal assessments have evolved by showing in-depth analysis of assessment questions in math. Teachers will understand the new types of questions presented to students and how classroom instruction should be modified to prepare students for these questions.

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This reading foundational lesson covers the decoding of words with prefixes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will write a new word by adding a prefix, decode the meaning of the new word, and then complete sentences using the new word made with the prefix. (Focus is on prefixes re-, un-, and over-.)

This reading foundational lesson covers the decoding of words with suffixes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will write a new word by adding a suffix, decode the meaning of the new word, and then complete sentences using the new word made with the suffix. (Focus is on suffixes -less, -ing, and -ly.)

This reading literature lesson covers the answering of who, when, and where questions about narrative or literary text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, answer questions about the characters and setting, and verify the answer by referring back to the text.

This reading literature lesson covers how to determine the central message in a narrative or literary text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, identify a character, and then identify a clue word that shows the character learned a lesson about life. What the character learns is then identified as the central message.

This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on comparing and contrasting characters. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students compare and contrast what is the same and different between characters in a story. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on comparing and contrasting plots. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students compare and contrast what is the same and different between the plot in two stories. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on comparing and contrasting setting. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students compare and contrast what is the same and different between the settings in two stories. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.