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Title: Increases test scores
Review: 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.
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