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Join Mary Butler at The Woodlands College Park High School for an engaging workshop designed to prepare students for the SAT. This session focuses on enhancing vocabulary, improving problem-solving abilities, and strengthening writing skills essential for test success. Discover effective strategies for dealing with complex texts and learn to navigate the educational language required for the SAT. Participants will explore resources that help students interact with vocabulary meaningfully, ensuring they understand and own the words necessary for academic achievement.
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1. SAT School Based Workshop Mary Butler
The Woodlands College Park H.S.
The Woodlands, TX
2. Preparing Students for the SAT Read something of significance daily preferably non-fiction
Read something rich and dense in text
Teach students the educational lingo -- for example Marzanos books on academic vocabulary
Deal with complex texts of fiction
3. Preparing Students for the SAT Improve vocabulary
Develop problem-solving abilities
Strengthen writing skills students are writing whether they are thinking or not
Learn general logistics of the test
4. Vocabulary Choose words from any source that are SAT words
apstrategies.org provides lists to accompany numerous novels as well as generic SAT lists
Best practices require that students own their words that they use their words and record their interaction with them.