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Test Taking Strategies
   


Show What They Know: Test Taking Strategies, a new video and Teacher's Guide, will support teachers who prepare students with vital skills for the testing environment, as well as strategies for mathematics and reading/language arts testing.
Contents include:
  • Characteristics of appropriate test preparation
  • How to optimize your testing environment
  • Ideas to help motivate your students
  • Stress busters
  • Navigating multiple choice questions
  • Avoiding common errors
  • Organizational ideas: for weeks in advance, day before testing, day of testing and planning sheets
  • Parent's letter
  • Taming those wild scratch papers
  • Key words for problem solving
  • Test preparation websites
  • STAR website resources
  • Testing website resources for parents

 

Watch a Preview of the Show What They Know Video.

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(1.7M/1 minute 39 seconds)

 
 

TEAMS Programming is produced at the Los Angeles County Office of Education.
 
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