This book is designed to meet the challenges fifth graders face taking standardized tests.Each paragraph is numbered to coincide with a companion study guide book that is also available through xlibris.com Its content includes material that can be enjoyed by 4th, 5th and 6th graders. This is a story about post Civil War Virginia and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution when the railroads first came through the Rocky Mount Station.The characters include 3 brothers, David, Michael, and Daniel plus a few surprise characters as well including Chapman who turns an ordinary Model T Ford into a railroad lizzie. Michael and Daniel gather coal that has fallen off of the trains passing by to sell to the local blacksmith for money. They encounter many adventures along the railroad tracks and become very enthusiastic when offered a ride ona train. The boys father, however, does not share the enthusiasm. His desire is for things to stay the same. In the story, Michael often has to choose between being a responsible adult and playing freely as a child. Eventually Michael gains the character trait of responsibility. In the end, the Burnt Chimney family learns to except the railroad system as a part of their lives and even learn to embrace it. This book is written as serialized story leaving the reader hanging at the end of each chapter and thirsting for more.

This book is a companion study guide for the picture book "Whistles through the Rocks." It contains 15 comprehensive questions for each chapter.These questions are formatted and aligned with the Virginia Standards of Learning.It is complete with an answer key as well. This book along with the picture book will help any student perform better on standardized testing and is perfect for home schoolers to teach reading comprehension.

SAVE TIME/STUDY SMARTER is a quick how-to for people of all ages trying to simplify their life. It’s easy to read and use if the reader is interested in long term savings of time and energy and the KISS philosophy.

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A trend in colleges and universities today is the acceptance of students who, though they have passed high school, are not yet ready for the rigors of postsecondary education. Many of these developmental college students do not know how they learn, and they do not have the self-knowledge to regulate their own learning. This book, incorporating a study of developmental students, tells how teaching college students to use cognitive skills, by knowing their own learning styles, multiple intelligences, and automaticity, can lead to their gaining the necessary self-effi cacy, the thus the empowerment over their own learning, to be successful students and adults.

A trend in colleges and universities today is the acceptance of students who, though they have passed high school, are not yet ready for the rigors of postsecondary education. Many of these developmental college students do not know how they learn, and they do not have the self-knowledge to regulate their own learning. This book, incorporating a study of developmental students, tells how teaching college students to use cognitive skills, by knowing their own learning styles, multiple intelligences, and automaticity, can lead to their gaining the necessary self-effi cacy, the thus the empowerment over their own learning, to be successful students and adults.

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SAVE TIME/STUDY SMARTER is a quick how-to for people of all ages trying to simplify their life. It’s easy to read and use if the reader is interested in long term savings of time and energy and the KISS philosophy.