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Reading Essential Skills

• Expand vocabulary in reading, writing, and speaking.
• Recall and organize information.
• Use knowledge of literary devices (allegory, figurative language, imagery, point of view, and symbolism).
• Analyze details.
• Analyze poet’s use of imagery and personification.
• Give credit for information.
• Demonstrate correct use of verb forms and tenses.
• Demonstrate a correct use of sentence structure.
• Demonstrate a correct use of parallel structure.
• Spell studied words correctly.
• Demonstrate a knowledge of literary elements.

Reading Strategies

• Be a role model. Let your child see you reading.
• Subscribe to the local newspaper or purchase the Sunday edition, and work the crosswords and crypt-a-quotes.
• Make sure that your child has a library card, dictionary, and thesaurus, and encourage their use.
• Before applying in person, ask your child to write a letter to the manager of a business inquiring about a job.
• Give your child a confusing piece of correspondence you have received. Decipher it  together.
• Encourage your child to find the hidden catch in junk mail offers.
• Choose a book which has been made into a  movie. After both you and your child have read the book, see the movie together and talk about the similarities and differences  (The Bourne Identity, A Walk to Remember, The Manchurian Candidate).
• Visit www.collegeboard.org and sign up for the SAT’s “Question of the Day” to be e-mailed to you each day.

Geometry Essential Skills

• Use the angle relationships formed by parallel lines cut by a transversal to solve problems.
• Identify relationships between pairs of angles (adjacent, complementary, and vertical).
• Use the relationships of congruency and similarity to determine unknown values (e.g., angles, side lengths, perimeter, circumference,area).
• Use logical reasoning skills (inductive and deductive) to construct and judge the validity of arguments.
• Find the distance between two points; the mid-point of a segment; and calculate the slopes of parallel, perpendicular, horizontal, and vertical lines.
• Compute length, perimeter, or circumference, area, volume, and/or surface area of geometric figures in a  variety of contexts.
• Find angle measures and arc measures related to circles.
• Find angle measures and segmentlengths using the relationships among radii, chords, secants, and tangents of a circle.
• Use transformations (reflection, rotation, and translation) within coordinate geometry  (e.g., reflect points across the y-axis).
• Use the properties of angles, righttriangles, and similar polygons to solve problems.

Geometry Strategies

• Set a time each day and a quiet location for math work to be completed at home.
• Ask to see your child’s math grade on a weekly basis.
• Make use of tutoring opportunities that may be available at the Intermediate High School. Check with the site for availability and sched-   ules.
• Create a written collection of the definitions, formulas, theorems, and postulates that are used in class, and have your child explain a few of them to you each week.
• Play a geometric game together like Tangoes (tangrams) or Tetris.
• Play a logic game like Clue or Rummikub with your child.
• Work logic, Suduko, or?Kenken puzzles.
• Watch a mystery with your child, and discuss why the evidence proves or disproves guilt.
• Calculate the area of a slice of pizza. 
• Look closely at man-made and natural objects to find geometric shapes.For example, buildings, bridges, ships, windows, and towers are  all examples of geometric structures.  The earth is a large sphere, as are the other planets in the solar system; and fish scales are examples of tessellations.