Completely Aligned with New York English Language Arts Testing Standards Queue's Rise & Shine English Language Arts series offers grade level-appropriate, engaging, approachable material in a format your students will be accustomed to seeing on the actual test. These books have been designed to specifically enhance the test preparation experience in the New York classroom. Grades 3-8 Comprehensively researched, targeted, and aligned to New York Assessment standards for English Language Arts Book is broken into six subject areas-specific parts: Poems; Fiction; Nonfiction; Listening; Capitalization, Punctuation, and Grammar; and Writing Prompts. All questions-multiple-choice, short-response, and extended-response-are identical in style to what students will see on the actual assessment test. Special bonus writing section helps students master writing responsive, persuasive, narrative, and communicative compositions. Teacher editions include extensive test-specific introductory guides and show correct and suggested answers for each of the questions asked, as well as the targeted skill for those questions. These books are also great for home schooling "