K12 ACT advantage

Kaplan Advantage : ACT
™

GRADES: 9-12

SUBJECTS: ACT

®

PROGRAM LENGTH: Up to 60 hours

Reinforce the skills and strategies needed for success on the ACT.
Kaplan Advantage: ACT provides targeted review of the key content and strategies needed to succeed
on the enhanced ACT.
tt Kaplan’s SmartPoints™ provide systematic and strategic approaches
to test readiness so students build the skills they need to improve
their performance.
tt Your students benefit from lessons that help bridge the gap between content knowledge and their performance on the ACT.
tt One full-length, multiple-choice scored practice test, subject-area tests, and formative assessments allow teachers to diagnose
students’ needs, regularly monitor performance, and measure
improvement.
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tt For Your Teachers: Detailed teacher notes support classroom instruction and provide targeted assistance to individuals when needed.

What You Get:

Guided Practice

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The 4-Step Method for Problem Solving
STEP 1: Understand the problem.
STEP 2: Analyze important information.

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STEP 3: Plan and solve.

Student and Teacher’s Edition sets:
-- ACT Advantage: English and Reading
-- ACT Advantage: Science
-- ACT Advantage: Math
Full-length multiple-choice scored practice test

STEP 4: Check your work.

Picking Numbers
• Pick numbers to stand for unknown numbers or
variables.
• Compute the answer using the number you picked.
• Substitute the value you picked into the expression
in each answer choice. The expression that yields the
same value as the one you found is the correct choice.

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Strategy Instruction

Substitute and Compute
• Substitute a value for each variable.

• Use order of operations to simplify.

The 3-Step Method for ACT
Reading Comprehension

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Content that supports
teachers as they guide
students towards ACT
success.

© 2006 Kaplan, Inc.

On the ACT Reading Test,
you can record your
summary statements
in the margins or in
the spaces between
paragraphs. Use
abbreviations and phrases
to save yourself time.

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In the Thinking KAP activity, you described a series of steps that you
follow every day to meet the challenge of getting ready for your school
day. In this unit, you will learn a series of steps to meet the challenge of
the ACT Reading Test. You briefly saw the 3-Step Method for ACT Reading
Comprehension in Unit 1. In this unit, you will learn how to perform each
step of the method, beginning with the first.

Step 1: Read Actively
To get the most from each passage, you need to read actively.

Summarize Each Paragraph
The first part of Step 1 is to summarize each paragraph. Think of each
summary statement as a headline—it pulls together the details from the
paragraph into one central idea. It is important to record your summary
statements. When you go to answer the questions, your notes will serve as a
table of contents—they’ll show you where to look for the answers.
Read the first paragraph of a passage about England’s Sweet Track and
review the summary statement.

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About 50 miles west of Stonehenge, buried in the peat bogs of the
Somerset flatlands in southwestern England, lies the oldest road known to
humanity. Dubbed the Sweet Track after its discoverer, Raymond Sweet, this
painstakingly constructed 1,800-meter road dates back to the early Neolithic
period, some 6,000 years ago. Thanks primarily to the overlying layer of
acidic peat, which has kept the wood moist, inhibited the growth of decaying
bacteria, and discouraged the curiosity of animal life, the road is remarkably
well-preserved. Examination of its remains has provided extensive
information about the people who constructed it.

Summary Statement:

S.T. is old, well preserved road; tells much about

people who made it.

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