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I don't know about you, but I have seen these Hot Dots all over the web. They are cards with multiple choice answer and a fancy pen that lights up when you choose an answer. Cute, right? But, to be honest, I thought that there was no way they would work Read More...
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We have been looking at subject verb agreement in class as of late and I just wanted to show you what we have been doing as far as showing "evidence". It sort of came out naturally as I was teaching and really, I am surprised I never thought to do this Read More...
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It's been a long time since I have written a Test Prep 180 post....but here we are again, back in the "testing" mode. Today, during my small group, we did something I found useful, so I thought I would share...just in case you could use it in your room Read More...
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Have you ever seen the show Top Chef? It is a competition between chefs for some amazing chef prize (I am sure it is amazing, however not being a chef...nor someone who can actually cook anything other than the 4 standard dishes I have...I wouldn't actually Read More...
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We have been spending a lot of time reviewing for The TEST lately. One of the areas I have been focusing on with my class are text features. These little areas in text are so easy to skip over when reading. How many times have you seen a timeline or a Read More...
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We are in crunch time until our big TEST. The next two weeks are basically review for the students as far as math goes. Because I like to embed my test prep all year long, I really am not doing the "take out your test prep book and bubble in the answers." Read More...
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On our endless pursuit of comprehending text, we have been focusing on fact and opinion (and how they add to the overall main idea of a text). We began by reading an article from Time for Kids (on a side note, TFK is SUCH great, easy to read non-fiction...perfect Read More...
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I am a big fan of Test Prep all year long (as you can tell from some of my posts !). Engaging the kids in learning the genre of Test Prep is one of my priorities as a teacher. Since they HAVE to take The TEST, I might as well make it intriguing, engaging, Read More...
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This is a long one. I promise something fun at the end if you make it all the way through ;) Last year, my school instituted a common schoolwide time dedicated for test prep. This was 30 minutes where we all had to be doing some sort of test prep with Read More...
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Inferring is such a hard task. Subconsciously we are making inferences at any given moment of the day, yet asking a student to infer what an author means or reading between the lines, is so, so difficult! One thing I have done in my class to make inferring Read More...
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