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Test-taking strategies like logical reasoning, elimination, and guessing are emphasized in a whole group practice session. Test questions require readers to identify prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Only four of 10 questions regarding prefixes are included, but you'll find 10 about suffixes and root words respectively.
Fourth graders identify and demonstrate test taking strategies. They discuss pre-test taking strategies they can do at home, and take an actual practice test. Students read short stories and answer multiple choice questions, draw a picture to illustrate a short passage, and discuss what test taking strategies worked for each section of the practice test.
Fifth graders examine a variety of test taking strategies. They read a short passage and identify whether sentences are fact or opinion, read a different passage and answer multiple-choice comprehension questions, and write complete sentences to answer comprehension questions. After taking the practice test, they discuss how to best solve each question.
Fifth graders role-play a test taking atmosphere while taking a practice test and examine a variety of test-taking strategies. They define different types of writing, match the writing type to the correct definition, compare and contrast fiction and nonfiction, and read different passages and answer comprehension questions.
Fifth graders examine different test taking strategies and simulate a test-taking atmosphere in the classroom. They discuss how to tackle difficult test questions, match terms with their definitions, and answer multiple choice reading comprehension questions.
Fifth graders examine a variety of test taking strategies and skills. They discuss ways to decode words they have trouble reading, match types of writing with their definitions, read a short passage and complete a comparison chart, and complete a keyword chart for two short passages.
Students examine test taking strategies by participating in this lesson. They identify "Look-alike choices" in which one is correct and the other choices are eliminated. They also identify "I'm Done" in which they check the clock and then go back and review their answers. Finally, they identify "echo options" in which if they identify two choices as opposite, chances are one is the correct choice.
Sixth graders investigate a test taking strategy involving long sentences. The teacher introduces a long sentence including groups of words set off by punctuation. The students are encouraged to pay attention to the "truth" of each of the phrases.
Third graders observe and demonstrate test taking strategies. They role-play a test-taking atmosphere in the classroom during the lesson, discuss a variety of multiple choice test taking strategies, and analyze sample problems that include reading a story and answering multiple choice questions.
Sixth graders utilize test taking strategies while taking a reading comprehension quiz. They use five strategies: pay careful attention to directions, decide exactly what the question is asking, ask the examiner for clarification of directions, record answers in the correct position, and completely erase incorrect answers.