4.+Test+Prep+Unit

 Preparing kids for tests doesn't have to mean drills. In our work, we make explicit connections between good test-taking practices and good general-learning practices. Below, please find some strategies and ideas that were compiled during common planning. I. **Vocabulary** --> Grammar phrases, context clues, prefixes, suffixes and root words; synonyms and antonyms II. **Comprehension** --> Finding details, Inferences, Getting the Main Idea, Drawing Conclusions, Identifying Cause and Effect, Comparing and Contracting, Identifying fact and Opinion and Decoding Literary devices III. **Strategies** --> Predictions, Using text support, Summarizing, scanning IV. New York State Rubric, Grade levels, short response and essays V. **Writing** --> Purpose, structure, lead sentence, text support, conclusion/ending sentence, format: Intro, body, conclusion VI. **Conferences** --> one student per day VII. **Resources** --> Lesson bank, Internet, Magazines, Short Stories just to name a few.
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