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SAT Parents’ Workshop

SAT Parents’ Workshop. Workshop Objective. Our goal tonight is to provide you with Reading and Math strategies that will help your child gain confidence in preparing for the standardized test. Introduction: What is the SAT?. SAT 10- Standford Achievement Test

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SAT Parents’ Workshop

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  1. SAT Parents’ Workshop

  2. Workshop Objective Our goal tonight is to provide you with Reading and Math strategies that will help your child gain confidence in preparing for the standardized test.

  3. Introduction: What is the SAT? SAT 10- Standford Achievement Test • The SAT 10 is an untimed assessment test. • It is a district mandate assessment that is administered to obtain early measures of students’ strength and weaknesses in Reading Comprehension and Mathematics. • The test provides achievement data that can be used to compare our students’ performance with students’ in the nation. • The test will be administered on April 4-10

  4. Test Taking Suggestions • Your child needs to be on time. The test will start promptly. • Make sure that your child get at least 8 hours of sleep every night. • Eat a healthy breakfast (FREE breakfast available at school) • Say positive and encouraging remarks to your child. • Please do not schedule any appointments for April 4-10, test taking days.

  5. SAT 10 Reading Skills • Comprehend material read- Fiction/Non Fiction • Approximately 40 QUESTIONS • Connect text, material viewed to prior knowledge and experiences • Recall information Ex: characters; character traits; setting; details; main idea beginning, middle, and end of stories; topic • Retell a story • Predict words and phrases in a story using pictures and other context clues • Monitor their reading by rereading, predicting, self- correcting • Create mental images while reading • Recognize high-frequency words • Genres: Poetry, Non-Fiction, Fiction

  6. Reading Reading Strategies and Study Tips

  7. Reading • The Reading Comprehension subtest measures students' comprehension within the framework of three types of materials or purposes for reading: literary, informational, and functional text. • Within each type of text, questions measure achievement in four modes of comprehension: initial understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, and awareness and usage of reading strategies.

  8. Sample Story and Questions A Visit To The Fire Station My dad is a firefighter. He drives a big red fire truck. His job is to help put out fires. Sometimes he has to live at the fire station. Once my sister and I went to visit him there. While he was showing us around the station, a loud alarm rang. All the firefighters began hurrying to put on their coats and hats. They hopped on the truck and rushed to the fire. My mom had to take us home. Maybe some day we can ride on the fire truck. 1. The story says that a. the children got to ride on a fire truck b. mom took the children to the fire c. an alarm rang and the firefighters rushed out

  9. 2. Which of these happened first? a. Mom took us home. b. An alarm rang. c. The firefighters put on their coats. SAT Standard • Identify explicit sequence Identifies the story elements of setting, plot, character, problem, and solution/resolution. (Identifies story elements, including sequence of events.) Determines the main idea or essential message from a text and identifies supporting information. (Retells a story in sequence.) • Identify explicit supporting details Reads for information to use in performing a task and learning a new task. (Supports responses with detailed information from the text.)

  10. Mathematics Strategies and Study Skills * Number Concepts Skills to review with your children: • Read numbers to 100 • Count objects to 100 • Compare numbers • Understand place value to the hundreds place. • Put numbers in order • Count by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s and 10’s • Complete number patterns

  11. Addition and Subtraction Concepts to review with your children: • Addition and subtraction facts to 100 • Adding and subtraction two digit numbers with regrouping. • Writing and solving number sentences.

  12. Measurement Skills to review with your children: • Estimating to the nearest inch and centimeter • Using a ruler properly • Use non- standards units of measurements (like cubes, paper clips) • Finding the perimeter and area of squares and rectangles. • Using volume, mass and capacity • Telling time • Finding value of coins

  13. Geometry • Identifying shapes • Identifying lines of symmetry • Identifying congruent figures.

  14. Fractions • Recognize fractions • Identifying how many parts to a whole

  15. Problem Solving • Listening to word problems carefully. • Listening to key vocabulary words that tell whether to add or subtract to solve the problem. • Using graphs, tables and charts.

  16. Key to SAT 10 Success Thank you parents and guardians for supporting our common goal. Teachers + Parents= Student Success

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