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Sandcastle Private School.......................5Bearfoot Lodge Private School ..............5Pierce Private Day School......................5Grace Academy of Dallas.......................6Spanish Schoolhouse..............................7St. James Montessori School..................7Dallas International School....................7

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Creme de La Creme............................... 2Peanut Gallery.........................................5Bent Tree Child Development Center............5Sand Castle Private School.....................5Bearfoot Lodge Private School......................5Cornerstone Learning Centers.......................5Pierce Private Day School.............................5Grace Academy......................................6

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Early Learning Centers

Private Schools

Adult Education

Enrichment Opportunities

Teacher Treasure pg. 4

Local School District Information pg. 8,9

SAT vs. ACT - What’s the Difference? pg. 10

Why the Vice President Hated to Read pg. 13

Special Features

Index

Two Card Compare

Use playing cards with jokers and face cards removed. This game is played like “War”. Each player turns over two cards and adds the numbers together quickly. The person with the highest sum keeps all of the cards. Repeat until one player has the entire deck. You can do subtraction also, and you can change it where the person who has the lowest sum or difference keeps the cards.

Turn Over Ten

This game works on combinations that make 10, which is a helpful strategy in addition. Use number cards from a card deck or digit cards attached (they would need to be printed on colored paper so you can’t see through them). The game is played like memory. All cards are turned face down. Players take turns turning over two cards. If the two cards equal 10 then you keep them and go again. If they don’t you turn them over and it is the other players turn. The person with the most matches at the end wins.

Roll 3 Dice

Each player rolls 3 dice and adds the numbers together. The person with the highest (or low-est) sum gets a tally mark. The fi rst person to reach 25 tally marks wins. **This can also be an independent practice and you can record the number sentence for each roll.

Race to 0

You can start this game from 50 or from 100. Each player writes the starting number (50 or 100) on a piece of notebook paper. Each play-er takes turns rolling a die and taking that number away from their start-ing number. Continue taking turns rolling and subtracting the number rolled from the previous difference until one player gets to 0.

Game Night can also be a time for sharpening your child’s math skills! These simply fun games support the foundation for all math problems.

Submitted by Staci Borynack, 3rd Grade Teacher Frisco ISD

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District Website EnrollmentNumber

of Schools *District Rating

Graduation Rate

Reading/ Language

Arts ** Math**

C o l l i n C o u n t y S c h o o l D i s t r i c t s * * *

Allen ISD www.allenisd.org 17,049

Elementary 13 Middle Schools 3 Freshmen Center 1 High School 1

Recognized 94.7% 96% 93%

Frisco ISD www.friscoisd.org 30,982Elementary 27 Middle Schools 9 High School 4


McKinney ISD www.mckinneyisd.net 19,743Elementary 19 Middle Schools 4 High School - 3

Acceptable 88.9% 94% 90%

Plano ISD www.pisd.edu 54,171

Elementary 44 Middle Schools 12 High Schools (9-10) 5 Sr. High Schools (11-12) 3


D a l l a s C o u n t y S c h o o l D i s t r i c t s * * *Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD www.cfbisd.edu 26,172

Elementary 27 Middle Schools 6 High School 5


Coppell ISD www.coppellisd.com 9,930Elementary 10 Middle Schools 3 High School 1


Dallas ISD www.dallasisd.org 157,631Elementary 156 Middle Schools 32 High Schools 33


Garland ISD www.garlandisd.net 56,593Elementary 47 Middle Schools 13 High Schools 7


Highland Park ISD www.hpisd.org 6,311Elementary 4 Middle Schools 2 High Schools 1

Exemplary 98.8% 99% 99%

Mesquite ISD www.mesquiteisd.org ~35000Elementary 31 Middle Schools 8 High School 5


Richardson ISD www.risd.org ~35,000

Elementary 41 Middle Schools 8 Freshman Centers 1 High School 5


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* May or may not include special campuses or magnet schools. ** Results based on most recent preliminary reports. For full report visit www.tea.state.tx.us

*** This is not a complete list of districts in each county. A complete list is available on the Texas Education Agency website.

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of Schools *District Rating

Graduation Rate

Reading/ Language

Arts ** Math**

C o l l i n C o u n t y S c h o o l D i s t r i c t s * * *

Allen ISD www.allenisd.org 17,049

Elementary 13 Middle Schools 3 Freshmen Center 1 High School 1


Frisco ISD www.friscoisd.org 30,982Elementary 27 Middle Schools 9 High School 4


McKinney ISD www.mckinneyisd.net 19,743Elementary 19 Middle Schools 4 High School - 3


Plano ISD www.pisd.edu 54,171

Elementary 44 Middle Schools 12 High Schools (9-10) 5 Sr. High Schools (11-12) 3


D a l l a s C o u n t y S c h o o l D i s t r i c t s * * *Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD www.cfbisd.edu 26,172

Elementary 27 Middle Schools 6 High School 5


Coppell ISD www.coppellisd.com 9,930Elementary 10 Middle Schools 3 High School 1


Dallas ISD www.dallasisd.org 157,631Elementary 156 Middle Schools 32 High Schools 33


Garland ISD www.garlandisd.net 56,593Elementary 47 Middle Schools 13 High Schools 7


Highland Park ISD www.hpisd.org 6,311Elementary 4 Middle Schools 2 High Schools 1

Exemplary 98.8% 99% 99%

Mesquite ISD www.mesquiteisd.org ~35000Elementary 31 Middle Schools 8 High School 5


Richardson ISD www.risd.org ~35,000

Elementary 41 Middle Schools 8 Freshman Centers 1 High School 5


*** This is not a complete list of districts in each county. A complete list is available on the Texas Education Agency website.


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Structure4 Sections (English, Math, Reading, Science) plus an optional Writing Test

10 Sections (3 Critical Reading, 3 Math, 3 Writing, and 1 Experimental, which is unscored)

Score

Composite of 1-36 based on average scores from the 4 test sections-4 scores of 1-36 for each test-Optional Writing Test score of 0-12 (not included in the overall score)

Total score range of 600-2400 based on adding scores from 3 subjects-3 scores of 200-800 for each subject-Score of 0-12 for the Essay

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Composite of 1-36 based on average scores from the 4 test sections

4 scores of 1-36 for each test

Optional Writing Test score of 0-12

Total score range of 600-2400 based on adding scores from 3 subjects

3 scores of 200-800 for each subject

Score of 0-12 for the Essay

Math No penalty for wrong answers ¼ point subtracted from your raw score for each wrong answer

Science You decide which score is sentYou decide which score is sent

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Optional Final Section30 MinutesNot Included in Composite ScoreTopic of importance to high school students

First Section25 MinutesFactored into overall scoreMore abstract topic


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Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller hated to read. He called it a “slow and tortuous process.” It all started with his early education. Unfortunately for young Nelson, he was denied the opportunity that all students should be able to take for granted—that of learning to read. His father had sent him to one of the most prestigious schools of his time, but it was one of the fi rst to adopt a new reading instruction methodology from Europe that was doomed to failure from the very start. The new method tried unsuccessfully to teach reading to the wrong part of the brain.

The schools abandoned a method that had been successful for thousands of years, In this method, phonics, each letter represented a sound. As the sounds in a word were spoken, the word was automatically pronounced. It was a simple, natural way to read.

Today more and more schools are trying to go back to the ancient Phoenician method, but many of them are struggling because their phonics programs merely cover the most basic sounds and leave out large blocks of essential skills. A comprehensive, step-by-step phonics program includes all the sounds and all the rules. Students taught by that method soon master the necessary skills of reading, and, unlike our unfortunate Vice President, they usually develop a genuine love of reading.

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