Buy it now! Have it to use in your classroom for years! Begin every class with standards-based questions!
The purpose of A Standard Start is to provide three questions a day that are based on the South Carolina langugage arts standards. These comprehensive questions spiral the standards and will increase your students' reading and writing skills and help prepare students for standardized testing.
There are 180 days of standards-based quesitons, one for every day of the school year. Each day, students will answer three questions. Standards will be spiraled, meaning on Mondays, they will have questions based on certain standards; every Tuesday, they will cover another set of standards, and so on. This is the standards schedule that the book follows:
Monday - Figurative language, point of view, context clues
Tuesday - Elements of fiction, reference skills, writing skills
Wednesday - Elements of poetry, author's purpose/craft, making inferences/drawing conclusions or summarize/paraphrase
Thrusday - Main idea, text elements or graphic features, building vocabulary (connotation/denotation, euphemisms, idioms)
Friday - Bias/propaganda, tone/mood, word analysis (Greek and Latin roots and affixes)
