I am teaming up with The Primary Peach to bring you the January Edition of Sharing Sunday. This month I am helping you plan for standardized testing.
It took about 10 years of teaching to realize I need to really jump the ball on preparing for standardized testing. I would feel the crunch as faculty meetings were filled with testing information and the date of the test drew closer. I finally realized that January was a great place for me to start getting my students ready for testing.
As a result of starting early, I found that we were all less stressed and were ready to dive in the first day of testing. My students had ample time to reflect and ask questions so as the days drew closer my test anxiety kids were happier and my students who waited until the day of the test to ask questions that I couldn’t answer asked questions earlier.
Below you will find reading and math resources, freebies, and blog posts geared toward 3rd grade testing standards. (These can be adapted to meet other grade level standards.) Click on the image to download the PDF that contains all of the links.
Sneaking these test prep activities in your lessons in January, will give students extra time to use these skills on their classroom assessments as well.
Head back to the Primary Peach for MORE January fun and freebies.
