Are You Ready for the SAT & ACT?: Building Critical Reading Skills for Rising High School Students
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Are You Ready for the SAT & ACT?: Building Critical Reading Skills for Rising High School Students
As parents know, the Redesigned SAT is looming on the horizon for rising high school students (those taking the exam in 2016 or beyond). The power of a single word and how it can vary in meaning depending on its surrounding context is a core skills-building component in Are You Ready for the SAT & ACT?, which directly addresses the layered analytical thinking that the Redesigned SAT requires.
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