Winning Strategies for Test Taking, Grades 3-8
A Practical Guide for Teaching Test Preparation
- Linda Denstaedt - Oakland Intermediate School District, University of Michigan, USA
- Judy Cova Kelly
- Kathleen Kryza - Infinite Horizons, Ann Arbor, MI
Full of reproducible resources such as planning guides, models, examples of think-alouds, annotated state exams, and more, this book shows how to help students excel at different types of test formats, including
Reading and analyzing texts
Multiple choice questions
True-or-false questions
Constructed response writing
Writing to a prompt
Meet the demands of high-stakes testing and develop students' confidence to conquer the challenges of test taking in the classroom and decision making throughout their lives.
"Arming your students with this game plan will lead to victory on test day. These well-defined writing and reading strategies will positively impact students' scores."
"This book provides teachers with specific units for intentionally developing students' ability to show what they know rather than show that they know how to take tests. It provides tools and information that make it easy for teachers to develop units based on their own state tests. By employing the strategies in this book, teachers will level the playing field for all our students and make high-stakes test taking a game of knowledge rather than a game of chance."
"Every teacher must read this book and teach these strategies immediately. I am seeing awesome results in my students' test scores, and they want more strategies. Learning is making sense to them! This book has changed my teaching."