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Welcome to Study Island! To work on your Study Island assignments, go to your Clever portal and log in! Study Island is a program designed to make taking the state-required assessments (the PSSAs) a little easier. It is also a great tool to help you see your growth on skills that may be new, may be a review, or may be completely different than what you expected!

You may have struggled with Study Island in the past - especially if you got a bunch wrong when you first tried, and had to work your way out of a "hole" to get to your ribbon.

Guess what????? Study Island had so many teachers telling them about students having to do hundreds of questions to get to a ribbon that they CHANGED how it's done! It's SO MUCH better now!

Here's how it works:

You will have different lessons that you need to complete for each assignment. For each lesson, you have three chances, or "takes" to get your blue ribbon. How is this different from just doing 30 question?
 * Take One: Try 10 questions, and see if you can hit the target percentage set by your teacher.
 * If you do, you write down your score on your chart, get full points on the lesson, and you're DONE with that lesson!
 * If you don't, you write down your score and move on to Take Two
 * Take Two: Try 10 **fresh** questions, and see if you can hit the target percentage this time! That's right, FRESH questions - you start with a clean slate, and don't need to worry about "making up" for wrong questions the first time.
 * If you do, you write down your score on your chart, get full points on the lesson, and you're DONE with that lesson!
 * If you don't, you write down your score on your chart, then move on to Take Three
 * Take Three: Try 10 **fresh** questions, and see if you can hit the target percentage this time! That's right, FRESH questions - you start with a clean slate, and don't need to worry about "making up" for wrong questions the first time.
 * If you do, you write down your score on your chart, get full points on the lesson, and you're DONE with that lesson!
 * If you don't, you conference with the teacher and see what's keeping you from the goal. . . and work together to get you there!

Well, think of it this way: if you do 10 questions and get a 3/10, you have a 30%. If you just do another 10, and get an 8/10, you would have a combined total of 11/20, or 65%. That's ok, but it might not get you a blue ribbon, or be high enough to hit the target. BUT, if you do it the new way, we would say, "Oh WOW! You grew from a 30% to an 80%! That's amazing growth, and you hit our target on the 2nd take! Way to go you! Here's full credit!" Isn't the new way better? Yeah, we thought so too.

Extra help for tough lessons. ..

Every once in a while, there is a lesson that is extra tough, especially if it is a new concept. In that case, I will try to add some resources to this page to help you!

Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

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Text Structures