ISAT Testing Hints and Helps  

WAYS TO HELP YOUR CHILD BE AT HIS/HER BEST FOR TEST TAKING:

• Be sure your child gets a good night's sleep.

• Be sure your child wears comfortable clothes to school.

• Be sure your child has a good breakfast before going to school.

• Be sure to send a snack to school with your child for a mid-morning break.

• Avoid disagreements and arguments the night before testing and the morning of the test.

• Be sure you remind your child to do his/her best.  Learn to take testing seriously.

PowerPoint Show on Testing Strategies

Illinois State Achievement Test samples  -  select grade level and subject area to work on test sample items.

Instilling Good Study Skills in your Children

Tips for Students - Practice Good Study Skills

Is My Child a Good Test Taker? -  an assessment of your child's habits and links to sites on test taking

Help Your Child Improve in Test-Taking

Parent Portal:  Test Taking is a Skill

Test Taking Tips - help your child do his best

Graphic Organizers

Reading Strategies for Comprehension

Math ISAT Extended Response Grade 6 (.pdf format)

Math ISAT Extended Response Grade 7 (.pdf format)

Math ISAT Extended Response Grade 8 (.pdf format)

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Word Play

 

Each of the following quiz questions consists of a related pair of words. Your job is to find the answer pair that BEST resembles the relationship between those words.

So, if the question says, "dog: puppy" and the possible answers are:

• bike: tire
• pencil: eraser
• cat: kitten
• cup: plate

The best answer is "cat: kitten," since both word pairs express an adult-infant relationship.

Quiz: Word Play

Pick the best related pair and brush up for the verbal section of standardized tests.

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That's a Word?!

 

Take the quiz to find out if you know these words' true meanings.

Are you a word wiz? Deft with definitions? Even if your vocation is vocab, we've got some words you've probably never heard of-- in fact, you might not believe they even exist.

Wrap your mind around the real meanings of these obscure (but very real) words.

Quiz: That's a Word?!

Find out if your atrabilious can bloviate.

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Your Vocab Secret Weapon

 

Learn how to break down words and figure out ones you've never seen before. What's the secret? Greek and Latin roots. Here's how they work: Think about television and telephone. They have "tele" in common-- a Latin root meaning far.

(Tele + vision = far sight; tele + phone = far sound.) Know that, and you can figure out that a telephoto lens helps you take pictures from far away.

Want to learn more tricks like this? Take the quiz!

Quiz: Your Vocab Secret Weapon

See how many Latin roots you know.

 

Quiz: Genius or Goof?

"I" before "E" when it comes after "C" except..when?

Rocking The Isat Power Point