One of the things I always ask people when they come to me with this question is: why?Why do you need to memorize the textbook verbatim? Are you certain you need to memorize the whole thing – or even long passages – verbatim? What will memorizing the whole textbook get you?
This is much less likely to happen with scripted reading programs or day after day of reading passages that have no meaningful context. Read Donalyn Miller’s The Book Whisperer for inspiration on how to make this happen.“Writing” means both formal pieces that are taken all the way through...
Furthermore, there are far fewer vocabulary questions in general, and they are all given in the context of longer passages. The vocabulary words tested are “neither highly obscure nor only relevant to one domain,” according to theSpecifications for the New SATreleased by College Board. So wha...