A+ Learning Center SSAT curriculum covers the following contents:
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Elementary Level SSAT - For children currently in 3rd and 4th grades who are applying for admission to 4th and 5th grades.
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Middle Level SSAT - For children currently in grades 5-7 who seek admission to grades 6 through 8.
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Upper Level SSAT - For children currently in grades 8-11 who are applying for admission to grades 9 through PG (Post Graduate).
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SSAT/ISEE Intensive Summer Prep Course
Verbal:
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Demonstrate command of the knowledge of word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
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Distinguish among the associations of words with similar definitions/denotations.
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Acquire and use accurately academic and domain-specific vocabularies.
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Compare and contrast the following relationships among words:
✧Cause-effect
✧Part-whole
✧Positive-negative
✧Degree
✧Purpose
✧Association
✧Quantity-quality
✧Subjective-objective
✧Homophony
✧Active-passive
✧Physical-mental
✧Human-nonhuman
✧Syntax
✧Shape relations
Reading Comprehension:
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Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details.
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Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator in a text.
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Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
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Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly.
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Demand the techniques to crack the following types of questions:
✧ Main idea Question
✧ Summary Question
✧ Inference Question
✧ Example Question
✧ Word-in-Context Question
✧ Analogy Question
✧ Understanding Attitude Question
✧ Understanding Purpose
✧ Relationship Question
✧ Overall Structural Relationships
Writing:
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Write narratives to develop imagined events.
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Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing the characters.
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Organize an event sequence naturally.
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Use narrative techniques to develop experiences and events.
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Use a variety of transitional words/phrases to manage the sequence of events.
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Use appropriate words and sensory details to convey experiences and events.