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Many of the company's quizzes are available in an optional recorded voice format for primary-level book in which the quiz questions and answers are read to the student taking the quiz. These quizzes are designed to help emerge English and Spanish readers to take the quizzes without additional assistance.
Renaissance is known for creating Accelerated Reader, which is used in about 35,000 schools, as well as Star computer-adaptive assessments, used in more than 37,000 schools, making Star Assessments the most widely used computer-adaptive assessment in the U.S. Pre-K–12 educational market, according to company figures.
First edition (publ. Blue Sky Press) The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg is a historical novel by Rodman Philbrick, author of Freak the Mighty.Set during the American Civil War, it follows the adventures of a boy who is an inveterate teller of tall tales on his quest to find his older brother, a Union soldier.
STAR Reading, STAR Early Literacy and STAR Math are standardized, computer-adaptive assessments created by Renaissance Learning, Inc., for use in K–12 education.Each is a "Tier 2" assessment of a skill (reading practice, math practice, and early literacy, respectively that can be used any number of times due to item-bank technology.
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Skimming is a process of speed reading that involves visually searching the sentences of a page for clues to the main idea or when reading an essay, it can mean reading the beginning and ending for summary information, then optionally the first sentence of each paragraph to quickly determine whether to seek still more detail, as determined by the questions or purpose of the reading.
The family of missing Hawaiian photographer Hannah Kobayashi insisted that the search for her is “far from over” after LA cops declared her “voluntarily missing.”