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What is the Eighth Grade Reading Program?
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With a colorful theme park format, the eighth grade reading program, Reading Boardwalk, provides FCAT-like reading passages and questions that your child can use to practice the reading skills tested on the 8th-grade FCAT. Your child will travel through an imaginative theme park, visiting rides and attractions as they work through reading material designed to improve reading skills and build vocabulary.
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What are the Program's Special Features?
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- Sixty passages offer fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. FCAT-like questions include 362 multiple choice, 135 short response, 37 extended response, 52 open response, and 108 main idea workshop practice questions.
- Short response questions allow your child to compare three model answers that represent typical student responses with feedback for correct and incorrect choices.
- Extended response questions allow your child to be the teacher and assign a score to a model response of a typical student. Feedback explains why the model response received a high or partial score.
- Open response questions allow your child to prepare a written response with model response answers for comparison.
- The main idea workshop teaches your child a strategy for finding the main idea of a passage. Should your child need help with this skill, he or she will be able to practice the strategy while working in the program.
- Grade level adjusts up or down through three grade levels according to your child’s needs. As your child improves, less support is offered.
- Word Click Audio—Your child can click on and hear each word of every passage.
- "Stop and Think" questions appear after children unsuccessfully answer questions in a set of passages. These "embedded questions, designed by reading specialists, help your child analyze passage information for improved understanding.
- Vocabulary exercises are presented before your child reads a passage. These exercises focus on five words from an upcoming passage. Students complete exercises focusing and meaning and usage.
- Animated boardwalk-based vocabulary games reinforce vocabulary and provide a fun learning experience.
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