Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking,

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

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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Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking, Grades 3-5

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