Get Ready! For Standardized Tests : Reading Grade 4

✍ Scribed by Kris Callahan, Carol Turkington

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 146
• Series: Get Ready 4
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Schools in 45 states now administer annual standardized tests, designed to gauge children's proficiency in reading, and, in many cases, to determine who gets promoted and who doesn't. These latest volumes in the critically-acclaimed Get Ready For Standardized Tests series arm parents with proven tools and techniques to help assess their children's basic reading skill levels; pinpoint their specific problem areas; reinforce their proficiency; gauge their progress; and instill them with the confidence and test-taking know-how needed to shine on virtually any standardized test.

✦ Table of Contents

Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
SKILLS CHECKLIST......Page 13
Types of Standardized Tests......Page 15
How States Use Standardized Tests......Page 16
Inappropriate Use of Standardized Test Scores......Page 17
How to Raise Test Scores......Page 18
Test Questions......Page 19
How to Use This Book......Page 21
Basic Test-Taking Strategies......Page 22
Practice Skill: Following Directions......Page 23
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 27
Practice Skill: Vocabulary......Page 28
Practice Skill: Word Meanings iin Context......Page 31
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 33
Practice Skill: Multiple Meanings of Words......Page 34
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 37
Practice Skill: Synonyms......Page 38
Homophones......Page 39
Practice Skill: Homophones......Page 40
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 43
Practice Skill: Root Words......Page 44
Prefixes and Suffixes......Page 45
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 46
Practice Skill: Prefixes and Suffixes......Page 47
What Fourth Graders Should Know......Page 48
Practice Skill: Singular and Plural......Page 49
What Fourth Graders Should Know......Page 50
Practice Skill: Compound Words......Page 51
Practice Skill: Contractions......Page 52
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 55
Practice Skill: Nouns......Page 56
Practice Skill: Pronouns......Page 57
What Tests May Ask......Page 58
Practice Skill: Punctuation......Page 59
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 61
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 62
Practice Skill: Sequence......Page 63
Practice Skill:Characters and Settings......Page 65
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 67
Practice Skill: Cause and Effect......Page 68
Practice Skill: Compare and Contrast......Page 69
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 70
Practice Skill: Predicting Outcomes......Page 71
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 72
Practice Skill:Drawing Conclusions......Page 73
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 75
Practice Skill: Facts versus Opinions......Page 76
What Fourth Graders Should Know......Page 77
Practice Skill: Character Analysis......Page 78
Practice Skill: Reality versus Fantasy......Page 79
What Tests May Ask......Page 80
What Fourth Graders Should Know......Page 81
Practice Skill: Poetry......Page 82
What You and Your Child Can Do......Page 85
Practice Skill: Alphabetical Order......Page 86
Practice Skill: Dictionaries......Page 87
Practice Skill: Parts of a Book......Page 89
Practice Skill: Reference Books......Page 91
What Tests May Ask......Page 92
Practice Skill: Charts and Graphs......Page 93
APPENDIX A Web Sites and Resources for More Information......Page 95
APPENDIX B Read More about It......Page 99
APPENDIX C What Your Child’s Test Scores Mean......Page 101
APPENDIX D Which States Require Which Tests......Page 109
APPENDIX E Testing Accommodations......Page 119
Glossary......Page 121
Answer Keys for Practice Skills......Page 123
Sample Practice Test......Page 125
Answer Key for Sample Practice Test......Page 140