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Contemporary's The GED Essay: Writing Skills to Pass the Test provides instruction and practice from sentence-level grammar to building multi-paragraph essays, giving students complete guidance on the GED essay. This text takes a developmental approach to the essay writing process by beginning with simple one-paragraph essays and sentence-level grammar, moving to building multi-paragraph essays. Plenty of practice is offered giving students opportunities to further develop their writing skills. Each chapter opens with sample GED essay questions and GED essays related to the chapters' topic and themes. Students will better understand topics and further their knowledge of the GED essay process by reading and critiquing sample essays provided. Students are provided with an understanding of all different types of essays; compare/contrast, cause and effect, and argumentation are all addressed in separate chapters allowing students detailed study of each essay. Practice exercises provide students ample opportunities to reinforce their skills. An important skill for GED students is to learn about the GED essay process and strategies for writing an essay. The text contains tips for developing a plan for writing an essay in the 45 minutes allowed during the GED exam. A graphic organizer is available for students to chart their individual plan for the GED exam. Each unit contains activities and exercises to reinforce topics and skills. Types of exercises include sample essays, genre/feature, graphic organizer, traditional grammar, writing prompts, review/revision, recognition/correction, and many more.

Contemporary'sGED: The Complete Bookis a complete and comprehensive study of all areas of the GED exam that provides hundreds of effective activities, engaging lessons, pre-tests, post-tests, and much more.CRITICAL THINKING SKILLSContemporary'sGED: The Complete Bookcontains a detailed explanation of the critical thinking process - Bloom's Taxonomy - that is critical on the GED tests. Students will need a basic understanding of the critical thinking process that will play a vital role in their success in GED preparation.INTERPRETING GRAPHS & ILLUSTRATIONSThe GED exam relies on the use of graphs and illustrations. This expanded section is dedicated to teaching students how to use illustrations and graphs to find and critically analyze information presented in a graphical format.ESSAYThe essay section of Contemporary'sGED: The Complete Bookcontains activities for the GED essay standards. This includes appropriate essay structure, new scoring procedures, and plenty of essay practice for students.WORLD HISTORYThe social studies section includes world history information, which is now covered in the GED exam. A section providing a basic overview of civics and government has been added to help non-U.S. natives obtain a deeper sense of governmental procedures. The Economics section includes consumer related issues and teachings.PRACTICAL & BUSINESS DOCUMENTSContemporary'sGED: The Complete Bookuses practical and business documents within its Language Arts and Reading sections. Students will use documents like business memos, practical forms, and letters to provide real-life application and preparation for the GED Language Arts, Reading exam.

Essential GED: A Complete and Compact Review for the High School Equivalency Exam offers compact and reliable text that gives students just what they need to pass every test area on the GED exam. The targeted format covers all the necessary skills and subjects with easy-to-follow instructions, practice and reinforcement activities, and simulated GED tests. Included in the text are pre- and post-tests, test-taking strategies, an answer key, a countdown checklist, and more.

Contemporary's Essential GED is the perfect compact text to give students the required tools to pass each area of the GED exam. This text contains pre- and post-tests along with test taking strategies. If your students need a fast-paced GED preparation text, Essential GED is the most reliable! Features Pre- and post-tests Essay section Social Studies with World History and graphs/illustrations Reading contains practical/business documents Science is based on NSES Content Standards Math contains Casio fx-260 usage examples and activities.