Making Ed-Tech a Habit Through Student Rewards
In my last post, I discussed the importance of finding a cue, or an emotional trigger, to encourage the use of ed-tech as a habit. Equally important is the necessity to incorporate psychological re...
4 Sep 2016
Colleges that Require the Highest Critical Reading & Writing SAT Scores
Since colleges are accepting both the New SAT and old SAT this cycle, it's a little confusing about what counts as a good critical reading and writing score. Here's a chart to give you an idea of ...
24 Aug 2016
Amazon Inspire Carries Big Implications for Schools, and Ed-Tech Providers
Last week Amazon announced its plan to launch Amazon Inspire, a one-stop shop for teachers in the hunt for free lesson plans, educational materials and ultimately educational software. Of course...
11 Jul 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
The correct answer will transition from a statement to an example of that statement. Choices A and D are effectively synonymous, and incorrect because the paragraph is saying that egotistical think...
17 Mar 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
Choices A and B are incorrect because the sentence in question offers an opposing example to that in the previous sentence. Choice C is too dismissive- the sentence is supporting the idea that envi...
16 Mar 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
Choices A and C are incorrect because they are synonymous and set up a contradiction, whereas choice B correctly introduces a rephrasing of the previous sentence. Choice D would be used to order ev...
15 Mar 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
The correct answer choice provides a transition between the statement that environmental factors can affect one's levels of empathy and the example provided in the following sentence. Therefore, th...
14 Mar 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
The first choice is incorrect because it talks about parents concern about exposure, not actually a danger of marijuana. The correct answer details how the US government believes it to be a potenti...
8 Mar 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
"Present" and "current" are used to convey the same information. Between the two choices that only say "current", the correct choice is the shortest grammatically correct answer. Therefore, the cor...
7 Mar 2016
One of Our Favorite Features: SmartyReader’s Flashcard Stack
SmartyReader’s Team believes in challenging students to work through difficult texts until they finally get it. That used to involve sitting alone for hours with a book full of vocab words in one ...
7 Mar 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
The narrator describes Maggie as sobbing “with a passion that expelled every other form of consciousness—even the memory of the grievance that had caused it." The word "overwhelming" captures the i...
3 Mar 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
"For instance," which means "For example," indicates that the author is going to provide a specific case to exemplify a larger point. In this case, the story of Purdue Pharma serves as an example t...
2 Mar 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
The correct answer choice will establish a supportive relationship between the idea that a lion pride can't enter another pride's territory without likely being killed and that this requires the pr...
1 Mar 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
In the third clause, the author mentions that Lois is forced to wait while the telegraph clerk “counted and recounted” the number of words in the lady’s message. While the heat and humidity likely ...
29 Feb 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
Children and adolescents are synonymous and as such, only one is required to convey the desired meaning of the sentence. Therefore, the correct answer is choice D. Ready to improve your cri...
25 Feb 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
The answer is B. The author explains that mankind ate raw meat for the first 70,000 years of its existence. He goes on to say that “This period is not obscurely hinted at by Confucius” (last se...
24 Feb 2016
SAT Question of the Day
Ready to make Critical Reading your strength on the SAT? Try out SmartyReader's question of the day! The following reflects a typical purpose question on the SAT, which tests your ability t...
24 Feb 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
Establishing the relationship of the sentence discussing the various systems to the previous sentence, we can see that the discussion of these systems is providing examples (illustrating) ways in w...
24 Feb 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
This run-on sentence incorrectly joins two independent clauses with “and”. Semi-colons can be used to join two independent clauses that can also stand alone as complete sentences. Therefore, the co...
23 Feb 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
Making this change would provide no benefit to this paragraph. The opinionated phrase “flaunt their pizazz” is inconsistent with the relatively objective tone of the rest of the paragraph. Therefor...
23 Feb 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
If you pay attention to the structure of the paragraph, the first part is concerned with describing the positive advancements that have come about as a result of humans' problem solving abilities. ...
23 Feb 2016
SAT Answer of the Day
The modifier states that something “suffered in popularity”. The subject must be “baseball” (instead of “fans”, “America”, or “the American people”) because it was baseball’s popularity that suffer...
23 Feb 2016
SAT Question of the Day
Ready to make grammar your strength on the SAT? Try out SmartyReader's question of the day! The following reflects a typical joining of clauses question, which tests your ability to identif...
23 Feb 2016
SAT Question of the Day
Ready to make Critical Reading your strength on the SAT? Try out SmartyReader's question of the day! The following reflects a typical tone question on the SAT, which tests your ability to a...
22 Feb 2016
SAT Question of the Day
Ready to make Critical Reading your strength on the SAT? Try out SmartyReader's question of the day! The following reflects a typical purpose question on the SAT, which tests your ability t...
18 Feb 2016