Publisher's Synopsis
This book offers an organized program where students complete focused exercises to develop a key language skill required of Texas students. The exercises increase from easy, to moderate, and then to advanced. This leveled and focused approach will introduce students at a comfortable level and then build on the skills so that students reach and then exceed grade level expectations.
Key Features- 101 exercises focused on homophones and homographs
- 10 complete sets of exercises organized into easy, moderate, and advanced
- vocabulary, reading level, and difficulty increase through the sets
- each set includes a variety of tasks that allow students to develop and then apply new skills
- specifically designed to increase vocabulary and language skills to exceed grade level expectations
- includes a complete answer key Develops 10+ TEKS Language Arts Skills
- allows students to identify and use homographs and homophones
- helps students distinguish among multiple meaning words
- increases vocabulary and develops knowledge of word meanings
- teaches students to use context to determine word meaning
- highlights and provides additional practice for high-frequency words
- provides practice using and spelling commonly confused terms
- introduces common contractions
- develops phonics skills by linking written letters to sounds
- helps students learn to decode words
- improves spelling
- enhances reading comprehension skills
- helps develop writing skills and revising skills Improves Performance on the STAAR Reading and STAAR Writing Tests
- improves reading comprehension skills
- helps students perform well on questions about homographs, homophones, multiple meaning words, and using context to determine word meaning
- improves performance on written composition tasks
