Measuring Up to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills And Instructional Strategies For Success -

Measuring Up to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills and Instructional Strategies for Success employs a 4-part, instructional model that can be used year-round with struggling students to supplement your basal curriculum. To ensure mastery of key concepts and skills, each Measuring Up lesson includes: 1. Focus on TEKS Introduces the lesson content and taps prior skill knowledge 2. Guided Instruction Shows how to apply key skills and strategies from the TEKS to instructional text that explains Science content or processes. Guided questions in the margin support comprehension. 3. Apply the TEKS Students practice what they've learned before answering questions in test format. 4. TEST Practice Wraps up each lesson with an array of multiple-choice and gridded-response questions to build students' test-taking confidence Measuring Up Science worktexts for Levels C-H now include: 1. Special Investigate sections at the end of every chapter address higher-order/21st century thinking skills. 2. Correlations to current TAKS Objectives