I have
recently completed work on something that I think
will make a tremendous difference for my students performance on the STAR test
next year,
and is now available to you and others. I have written a
collection of 130 transparencies with five STAR aligned questions each, which I
am calling Star Power Warm-ups. That's a total of 650 questions that
are proportionally aligned to the California State blueprints for the Grade
7 STAR test. You may find samples,
ordering information, and costs here...
Star
Power Warm-ups: Grade 7. The stars next to each question refer
not its difficulty but to how many times that question type and standard will appear
on the STAR test based on the California State blueprints. By the end of this 130 day
review students will have taken the STAR test an equivalent of 10 times. This
collection is now available for 7th grade. A similar set of warm-ups should
be ready for Algebra 1 by the end of
this summer, 2008.
My plans for the next few years
are....
1) Complete Star Power Warm-ups for Algebra 1. (Now until Summer 2008)
2) Align PowerPoints to new California publishers
for 6th, Pre-Algebra, and Algebra. (Summer 2008 to Summer 2009)
3) Begin work on Geometry PowerPoints. (Summer 2009
to ?)
Thanks for your support and interest in my
products. Should you think of anything that could help you in the future or if
you find out what textbooks your district will be adopting, I would love to hear
about it.
Jim Wenk
