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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. Develops 10+ TEKS Language Arts Skills - produces a thorough understanding of synonyms and antonyms - illustrates how prefixes and suffixes change word meaning - helps students distinguish between words with similar meanings - provides practice using synonyms and antonyms to complete analogies - builds an understanding of positive and negative connotations - teaches students to use context to determine word meaning - helps students make real-life connections between words and their meanings - increases general vocabulary and develops knowledge of word meanings - improves writing by encouraging stronger word choices - promotes the use of effective and varied adjectives - allows students to convey ideas precisely - enhances reading comprehension skills Key Features - 101 exercises focused on synonyms and antonyms - 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 - each set is focused on developing key language skills listed in the TEKS - includes a complete answer key STAAR Test Prep While the aim of this book is mainly to develop and enhance language skills, the skills learned will also improve performance on the STAAR Reading test and the STAAR Writing test. The STAAR Reading test includes questions on synonyms, antonyms, word meanings, and prefixes and suffixes. The strong understanding developed from this book will improve student performance on these questions, as well as increase general reading comprehension skills. The language and writing skills developed will also improve student performance on the composition sections of the STAAR Writing test.

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