Prepares Students for the 2016-2017 Smarter Balanced (SBAC) Assessments!
Provides Ongoing Skill Development and Practice- Provides ten practice sets for ongoing test preparation and skill development
- Begins with two short practice sets to introduce students to testing
- Continues with eight 60-minute practice sets to give students the experience they need to perform well on assessments
- Covers all the skills in the Common Core State Standards
- Prepares students for the question types found on the state tests
Preparation for the Smarter Balanced (SBAC) Assessments
- Covers the same skills as the Smarter Balanced assessments
- Provides practice completing selected-response, constructed-response, and technology-enhanced questions
- More rigorous questions prepare students for the higher difficulty of the new assessments
- Full answer key lists the Common Core skill assessed by each question
One Book, Eight Key Benefits
- Develop and build on all the Common Core skills that students need
- Build confidence by using the tests to improve student performance
- Reduce test anxiety by allowing low-stress practice
- Ensure students are comfortable with a range of question formats
- Introduce students to the more complex tasks found on the Smarter Balanced assessments
- Help students prepare for the more rigorous Smarter Balanced assessments
- Use the full answer key and skills list to identify gaps in knowledge and target revision accordingly
- Use the practice sets for testing, revision, and retesting
