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Stand-Alone Publishers
These standards review/test prep products are “stand-alone” and do not tie back to a textbook curriculum for reteaching. Some products contain reteaching along with the standards review/test prep experience, and some simply review the standards through the test prep experience with no instruction or reteaching. Buckle Down Publishing products contain reteaching. Curriculum Associates products are inexpensive, and the formatting of the test questions closely mimics STAR test questions, making it a good test experience and preparation for the student for math, ELA, and Science. Curriculum Associates does not currently have California 8th history standards review products. Both of these publisher’s products were written for California, unlike many of the standards review/test prep materials you might find through other vendors. Theirs are often written to the national standards and are not aligned to California’s standards, or are not formatted as similarly to give a truer test prep experience.

Standards Review Materials: History Grades 6-8, World History, US History
Textbook Publishers These materials can be used as "stand-alone" products for standards review/test prep practice. You do not need to be using the textbook to use these products. The advantage of these products is that they were written for the California standards and they tie back to the student's curriculum textbook and textbook website for reteaching.
Grade	Subject	Item	Catalogue or ISBN	Unit Price	Vendor	Copyright
6	Ancient History	California Standards Practice, Student Workbook (Discovering Our Past: Ancient Civilizations. Covers 6th grade standards).	0078703155	$8.03	Glencoe	2006
6	Ancient History	California Standards Practice, Teacher Edition (Contains the answers to the Student Workbook. Explains why answer was right and why each other answer was wrong to strengthen test-taking and reasoning skills. Refers back to the curriculum for reteaching if standards question was missed).	0078703123	$12.81	Glencoe	2006
7	Medieval & Early Modern History	California Standards Practice, Student Workbook (Discovering Our Past: Medieval and Early Modern History. Covers 6th and 7th grade standards).	0078702615	$8.03	Glencoe	2006
7	Medieval & Early Modern History	California Standards Practice, Teacher Edition (Contains the answers to the Student Workbook. Explains why answer was right and why each other answer was wrong to strengthen test-taking and reasoning skills. Refers back to the curriculum for reteaching if standards question was missed).	0078702607	$12.81	Glencoe	2006
8	Early US History to WWI	California Standards Practice, Student Workbook (Discovering Our Past: The American Journey to World War I, CA Edition. Standards review practice for grade 8; also includes condensed standards review practice for grades 6 and 7).	0078703786	$8.03	Glencoe	2006
8	Early US History to WWI	California Standards Practice, Teacher Edition (Contains the answers to the Student Workbook. Explains why answer was right and why each other answer was wrong to strengthen test-taking and reasoning skills. Refers back to the curriculum for reteaching if standards question was missed).	0078703778	$12.81	Glencoe	2006
9 - 11	World History	California Standards Practice, Student Workbook (World History: Modern Times, CA Edition. Students take an end-of-course exam in they year they complete the course).	0078726840	$8.97	Glencoe	2006
9 - 11	World History	California Standards Practice, Teacher Edition (Contains the answers to the Student Workbook. Explains why answer was right and why each other answer was wrong to strengthen test-taking and reasoning skills. Refers back to the curriculum for reteaching if standards question was missed).	0078726859	$29.97	Glencoe	2006
11	US History	California Standards Practice, Student Workbook (The American Vision: Modern Times, CA Edition. All 11th grade students take a mandatory US History CST as part of their STAR test. It is advised that students take US History in 11th grade to be optimally prepared for this CST).	0078728045	$8.97	Glencoe	2006
11	US History	California Standards Practice, Teacher Edition (Contains the answers to the Student Workbook. Explains why answer was right and why each other answer was wrong to strengthen test-taking and reasoning skills. Refers back to the curriculum for reteaching if standards question was missed).	0078728053	$29.97	Glencoe	2006
Stand-Alone Publishers These standards review/test prep products are “stand-alone” and do not tie back to a textbook curriculum for reteaching. Some products contain reteaching along with the standards review/test prep experience, and some simply review the standards through the test prep experience with no instruction or reteaching. Buckle Down Publishing products contain reteaching. Curriculum Associates products are inexpensive, and the formatting of the test questions closely mimics STAR test questions, making it a good test experience and preparation for the student for math, ELA, and Science. Curriculum Associates does not currently have California 8th history standards review products. Both of these publisher’s products were written for California, unlike many of the standards review/test prep materials you might find through other vendors. Theirs are often written to the national standards and are not aligned to California’s standards, or are not formatted as similarly to give a truer test prep experience.
6 - 8		Sharpen-Up on History-Social Science, Student Set (Student Set includes 1 Workbook and 1 Practice Test. Reviews CA standards for grades 6, 7, and 8. Includes reteaching--does not send you out to another curriculum). Correlations of Sharpen-Up History to the California standards.	CA00114	$9.95	Buckle Down Publishing
6 - 8		Sharpen-Up on History-Social Science, Teacher's Guide (Teacher's Guide contains all of the answer keys to the Student Set).	CA00110	$14.95	Buckle Down Publishing
STAR Released Test Questions, History: 8th Grade California Standards Test (CST) This free download is made available by the state of California. It contains released test questions with test question answers spanning the 6th - 8th grade standards covered during the STAR 8th grade history CST.
6 - 8		Released Test Questions, History, 6th - 8th grades http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/documents/rtqgr8history.pdf (Free download. Actual STAR test questions released for public use from previous STAR tests. This document also explains how many questions are on the STAR test for each reporting cluster).
9 - 11		Released Test Questions, History, World History http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/documents/rtqgrworldhist.pdf (Free download. Actual STAR test questions released for public use from previous STAR tests. This document also explains how many questions are on the STAR test for each reporting cluster).
11		Released Test Questions, History, US History http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/documents/rtqgr11history.pdf (Free download. Actual STAR test questions released for public use from previous STAR tests. This document also explains how many questions are on the STAR test for each reporting cluster).