Kaplan Advantage : ACT ™ GRADES: 9-12 SUBJECTS: ACT ® PROGRAM LENGTH: Up to 60 hours Reinforce the skills and strategies needed for success on the ACT Kaplan Advantage: ACT provides targeted review of the key content and strategies needed to succeed on the enhanced ACT tt Kaplan’s SmartPoints™ provide systematic and strategic approaches to test readiness so students build the skills they need to improve their performance tt Your students benefit from lessons that help bridge the gap between content knowledge and their performance on the ACT tt One full-length, multiple-choice scored practice test, subject-area tests, and formative assessments allow teachers to diagnose students’ needs, regularly monitor performance, and measure improvement 15 tt For Your Teachers: Detailed teacher notes support classroom instruction and provide targeted assistance to individuals when needed What You Get: Guided Practice • The 4-Step Method for Problem Solving STEP 1: Understand the problem STEP 2: Analyze important information • STEP 3: Plan and solve Student and Teacher’s Edition sets: ACT Advantage: English and Reading ACT Advantage: Science ACT Advantage: Math Full-length multiple-choice scored practice test STEP 4: Check your work Picking Numbers • Pick numbers to stand for unknown numbers or variables • Compute the answer using the number you picked • Substitute the value you picked into the expression in each answer choice The expression that yields the same value as the one you found is the correct choice A Strategy Instruction Substitute and Compute • Substitute a value for each variable • Use order of operations to simplify The 3-Step Method for ACT Reading Comprehension 152 ACT ADVANTAGE MATHEMATICS 04_ACT_ADV_HSMath_SE.indd 152 Content that supports teachers as they guide students towards ACT success © 2006 Kaplan, Inc On the ACT Reading Test, you can record your summary statements in the margins or in the spaces between paragraphs Use abbreviations and phrases to save yourself time 8/8/06 2:53:02 PM In the Thinking KAP activity, you described a series of steps that you follow every day to meet the challenge of getting ready for your school day In this unit, you will learn a series of steps to meet the challenge of the ACT Reading Test You briefly saw the 3-Step Method for ACT Reading Comprehension in Unit In this unit, you will learn how to perform each step of the method, beginning with the first Step 1: Read Actively To get the most from each passage, you need to read actively Summarize Each Paragraph The first part of Step is to summarize each paragraph Think of each summary statement as a headline—it pulls together the details from the paragraph into one central idea It is important to record your summary statements When you go to answer the questions, your notes will serve as a table of contents—they’ll show you where to look for the answers Read the first paragraph of a passage about England’s Sweet Track and review the summary statement A About 50 miles west of Stonehenge, buried in the peat bogs of the Somerset flatlands in southwestern England, lies the oldest road known to humanity Dubbed the Sweet Track after its discoverer, Raymond Sweet, this painstakingly constructed 1,800-meter road dates back to the early Neolithic period, some 6,000 years ago Thanks primarily to the overlying layer of acidic peat, which has kept the wood moist, inhibited the growth of decaying bacteria, and discouraged the curiosity of animal life, the road is remarkably well-preserved Examination of its remains has provided extensive information about the people who constructed it Summary Statement: S.T is old, well preserved road; tells much about people who made it 52 ACT ADVANTAGE ENGLISH & READING 02_ACT_ADV_HSELA_SE.indd 52 © 2007 Kaplan, Inc 8/1/07 11:07:42 AM 750 3rd Avenue, 7th Floor I New York, NY 10017 888-KAPLAN8 www.kaplank12.com