E. Use effective test-taking strategies

1. participate in timed activities
2. notice boldface print/italics
3. reread to check and confirm

Strategies for Standardized Tests
This lesson offers strategies for testing taking. Although it was created for use with high school students, it can be used with elementary students.
 

Reaction Time 1: How Fast Are You?
To identify ways in which experience and practice allow humans to learn new skills, using activities that test reaction time as examples.
 

FunBrain.com:  Online games for practicing test taking skills.

Study Guides and Strategies:  This site offers lots of information about test taking skills.

Edu Place: Test Quest:  This online game reviews several test taking strategies.

Study Skills Unit Plan:  This unit plan offers a lot of links for test taking skills.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Identify key characters in short story nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one-to-two word responses.
E/B: Respond to simple, orally presented factual questions about an illustratively supported short story and express nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one-two-word responses.
E/B: Create pictures, lists, charts, and graphic organizers to illustrate characteristics of short stories.
E/B: Demonstrate sequence of events from an illustratively supported short story and express nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one-to-two word responses.
E/B: Identify main events of familiar fairy tales and folktales from around the world and express with simple spoken or written sentences; D: Identify main events of familiar fairy tales, folktales, legends, and fables from around the world and express with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Understand basic plots of classic fairy tales, folktales, legends, and fables from around the world.
E/B: Identify main characters within an illustratively supported text and express with simple spoken or written sentences; D: Identify main characters based on their interactions within an illustratively supported text and express with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Describe characters based on events and statements within the text.
E/B: Identify main events in illustratively supported fiction and nonfiction texts and express with simple spoken or written sentences; D: Identify main events in fiction and nonfiction texts and express with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Identify theme in fiction and nonfiction texts.
D: Identify most text and content features of poetry, drama, and short stories and express with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Recognize different types of literature, including poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.
D: Identify speaker or narrator in reading selection and express with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Identify speaker or narrator in reading selections.
 

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