INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT:
This page gives you direct access to our external site where you purchase English/Language Arts lessons, study guides, and instructional documents suitable for a range of students from upper elementary school through junior high. In some instances, struggling 9th graders could be helped. The same lesson, for instance, might be used for genuine on-grade level support for a 5th grade student BUT for remediation and reinforcement for middle school students who are struggling.
AEA also offers an opportunity for academic screening tests in English Language/Grammar-Usage, reading comprehensive, and math targeting grades 5-8 that are NOT available at the following links.
Before we provide a narrative about some of the products and how they might prove helpful, here are some direct links:
- External Website Where Products Can Be Purchased. They are very cost effective. The entire product line is contained on several pages on this link.
- A Link to A PDF That More Fully Describes the Products and Categorizes Them by Instructional Needs. The URL links indicated in the pdf are not activated in the pdf. The products can be reached at the link above. However, a careful review of this pdf will give you an excellent overview as well as guide your internal search once you are on the product page.
- Explaining the Value of the Jake Maddox Series of Short Novels. For an on-grade level elementary student or a struggling junior high student, we have great confidence in using these high interest sports novels featuring both male and female lead athletes to enhance good reading and comprehension skills. We have addes some custom vocabulary exercises to help your children ‘grow’ their vocabularies.
Be advised that ALL of these lessons are copyrighted. They are available to you for your personal use with children in your family. They may NOT be reproduced, re-distributed to others, or used by others beyond your DIRECT family or for whom you bought the products.
Focused exclusively on middle school ELA course work, there are some 130 specific lessons, study guides, tests, and instructional support documents that you can use to help your child mature academically – catching up or advancing. Targeting both students with academic skills gaps plus those who are more advanced, you can take a more proactive role in in making sure that your child is getting the actual instruction that they need in school.
The harsh reality is that the State of Texas testing system in particular and others in general are going to test an 8th grade student chronologically on 8th grade STAAR tests at the end of the academic year EVEN IF your child has demonstrable, provable deficiencies in skills they never mastered in the 5th, 6th, or 7th grades. That’s true at every grade level of STAAR.
The TEA has placed your child on a conveyor belt of testing that serves the interests of the TEA – not guaranteed to be in the interest of your child. Your targeted use of these products will give you the evidence you need to more effectively evaluate the instruction your child is received – OR NOT RECEIVING.
Whether you use this valuable resource as a tool of evaluating your child’s needs on the campus or as a resource at home, it gives you more options to consider how best to represent your child’s genuine educational needs. Here are three attachments describing our products.