SAT: English Test Prep

By SparkNotes and Nathan Barber

The "Daily Spark" series gives classroom teachers a dynamic way of delivering stimulating and effective exercises to get students motivated at the start of class. Each book in the series features 180 exercises, one for each day of the school year. These small, handy books are brightly designed for quick and easy reproduction. Each Daily Spark prompt is uniquely tailored for subject matter; while one may present a short problem, another may pose a provocative question or ask students to write a brief poem or journal entry."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1411402235
• ISBN13: 9781411402232
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Sparknotes
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Increases test scores

I had my 11th grade students do two exercises at a time, twice a week as our daily starter activity, about 5 minutes/day. At the end of the semester, students scored 5-10 points higher on a practice language arts SAT packet (about 30 questions) than did the students the previous semester who had not done the Daily Spark activities. Usually I did not even need to discuss why the answers were correct. I'm impressed. The questions were about all that stuff that we teach, that the students think they will never need: vocabulary, commas and semicolons, passive voice, inferencing, etc. Students do need to be warned that the real college entrance exams have longer reading sections than the short paragraphs in these activities.