Most Popular Books by Stuart Margulies

[This book] is aimed at improving fifth grade students'' performance on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) Reading Test by helping them develop higher-order reading and language competencies.-To the teacher.

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Programmed instruction attacks the problem by focusing the student''s attention on the significant points while he learns. After the student answers an item correctly, he receives immediate confirmation that he has mastered the relevant information and proceeds with confidence.

In this unique and original memoir, Jon Douglas Lindjordtraces his quest for humanity-kindness, compassion,an ability to transcend mechanistic thinking-in people,animals, and above all himself. Through a series ofvivid vignettes-a childhood encounter with Einstein, adrastic risk taken in the Army, a disturbingly successfulexperiment in hypnosis, a past life momentarilyrevealed in a parking lot, as well as telling momentswith the dogs and cats that have been among hisclosest companions-Lindjord takes us deep into hisfascinating psyche. A section of magnificently insightfulphotographs movingly reveals the inner lives-thehumanity-of those well-loved pets.

Helps high school students in grade 11 prepare for the ACT WorkKeys Test, which is part of the Prairie State Assessment Exam that measures their achievement of the Illinois Learning Standards. Helps students gain confidence and skill by fostering familiarity with ACT formats and question styles.

Helps seventh grade students prepare for their North Carolina end-of-grade reading test by providing practice questions and test-taking advice.

These books are aimed at the development of higher-order reading competencies by students from grades 3 - 10. They prepare students for the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test) in Reading. The test taps students'' reading comprehension strategies, as well as their ability to analyze different types of literature and synthesize information form a variety of sources.