Teaching English for Success with the ACT Workshop Course
Are you looking to improve your schools’ ACT English scores by implementing material into your English class?
Hello, my name is Dr. Chippendale and I am the proud owner of Focus on Learning. I’ve worked with thousands of teachers and students with the ACT since the beginning of Focus on Learning for over 35 years.
My Teaching for English Success with the ACT course has been created from the collection of research I’ve done on the ACT English tests in that amount of time. I’ve organized the information in a succinct order so that teachers can implement it easily into the classroom.
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Cost
$295
Features of the Teaching for English Success the ACT
Teaching for English Success with the ACT Video Series
Video 1: Background on ACT English Test
Video 1: Background on the ACT English Test covers
- Format of ACT English test
- Content of the ACT English test
- Strategies to teach for the English Test
- Incorporating the English ACT into the classroom
- How to use ACT passages to teach punctuation and grammar
Video 2: Punctuation
Video 2: Punctuation focus on how English teachers can incorporate components of punctuation of the ACT into their classroom. This first video of punctuation focuses on showing English teachers how periods, semicolons, colons show up on the ACT English test.
The benefits of this video are… It helps teacher and students
Video 3: Punctuation (Continued…)
Video 3: Punctuation (Continued…) focuses on components of punctuation. We continue this conversion by showing English teachers how commas, dashes, parentheses, and apostrophes show up on the ACT English test.
The benefits of this video are… It helps teacher and students
Video 4: Grammar
Video 4: Grammar focuses on how English teachers can incorporate components of grammar of the ACT into their classroom. We show teachers how pronouns, non-pronoun agreement, subject-verb agreement, parallelism, transition words and phrases show up on the ACT English test.
The benefits of this video are… It helps teacher and students
Video 5: Rhetoric/Word Choice
Video 5: Rhetoric/Word Choice focuses on how English teachers can incorporate components of grammar of the ACT into their classroom. We show teachers how
The benefits of this video are… It helps teacher and students
Video 6: Practice ACT English Tests
Video 6: 74FPRE Video Explanation walks teachers how best to answer the 75 questions in the 74FPRE ACT test question by question.
ACT English PowerPoints
ACT English Class PowerPoint
The ACT English Class PowerPoint will cover the same content we covered in videos 2 – video 6.
Teaching for ACT Success English Jump Start PowerPoint (teacher edition)
The Teaching for ACT Success English Jump Start PowerPoint is a ready-to-go PowerPoint that we have taught and updated for the past 30 years. English teachers can immediately implement this ACT PowerPoint into their class
The Teaching for ACT Success English Jump Start PowerPoint will cover
- Background to the ACT English test (format, content, common traps)
- How to set a goal score on the ACT English test
- How to pace yourself on the ACT English test
- Punctuation Rules
- Grammar Rules
- Tips for the taking the ACT English Test
- Summary of English Rules
- Practice exercises
- Multiple questions and answers of each type ACT English passages
Additional Supplemental Handouts
TFS English Supplemental Handouts
Our Teachers as Coaches English Supplemental Handouts are documents that can be used as a friendly quick reminder or in the classroom for extra student practice.
The documents include:
- Punctuation Cheat Sheet
- Punctuation – review with practice questions and an answer key
- Sentence Boundaries Worksheet – review with practice questions and an answer key
- Pronouns and Apostrophes – review with practice questions and an answer key
- Wordiness/Wordiness II – review with practice questions and an answer key
- LEAST, NOT, EXCEPT – review of ACT questions word or phrases that would be accepted or not accepted as an alternative to an underlined word phrase in a sentence.
ACT English “Quick Review” Strategies
The ACT English “Quick Review” Strategies document gives students the ability to quickly look over important ACT English strategies. Students can benefit from this document because it reviews the ACT English test format, plus rhetorical, punctuation, and grammar rules.
Tips for Taking the ACT Test
The Tips for Taking the ACT Test document covers seven tips that students must remember to do well on the ACT.
Recent Changes to the ACT
The Recent Changes to the ACT document covers three current changes that are important for students to know around the ACT. We also cover the advantage and disadvantages of each.
Access to ACT test for student usage
We have collected all of the ACT tests from 2014-2020. We wanted to make a convenient portal that your students access for practice throughout their ACT journey.
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