What can you expect from our areas of focus?
Reading Comprehension students will improve in the following areas:
- Deliberative and engaged reading
- Author objective determination
- Making correct inferences
- Drawing accurate conclusions
- Semantic engagement (reading “between the lines”)
- Common vocabulary in academic assessment
- Rapid absorption of the purpose of long and short passages
- Understanding abstract concepts and metaphors
- Connecting subtle transitions between paragraphs
- Contextualization
- Comprehension of the function of word and character choices
- Analyzing author technique, including message, style, and tone
- Learning new terminology and learning how to decipher unfamiliar terms
Grammar and Language students will learn how to:
- Appropriately replace faulty sentences
- Add evidence that supports an argument
- Spot example that’s not relevant to the passage’s central idea
- Identify the correct interpretation of data presented in a graph
- Form the clearest and most logical order of words in a sentence
- Decide which word or phrase expresses an idea most clearly
- Choose between similar words with different connotations
- Revise language to get rid of wordiness or repetition
- Change sentence for consistency with a passage’s style or tone
- Revise sentence structure to shift emphasis
- Combine two sentences effectively
- Identify grammatically incomplete sentences, run-ons, and comma splices
- Coordinate or subordination of clauses in sentences
- Recognize parallelism in sentence construction
- Classify misplaced modifiers in sentences
- Locate inappropriate shifts in verb tense, voice, and mood and in pronoun person and number
- Choose between confused words
- Find agreement between pronouns and antecedents, subjects and verbs, and between nouns
- Understand Illogical comparison of unlike terms
- Select the appropriate non-standard expression, when applicable
- Use proper punctuation
Writing students will learn how to:
- Express their ideas clearly and concisely
- Improve the depth and quality of their expression
- Structure a passage in the most flattering way
- Deliver an effective argument
- Formulate appropriate transitions
- Write with unified style and tone
- Create innovate and powerful introductory and closing statements
- Summarize effectively for concluding paragraphs
Math students will improve in the following areas:
- Problem-solving
- Data Analysis
- Using algebraic structure (Heart of Algebra)
- Mathematical concepts in Algebra, geometry and data
- Applying math knowledge to problems
- Solving problems quickly
- Passport to Advanced Math
- Trigonometry
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