Welcome to the Stanford Achievement Test Parent Meeting

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Welcome to theStanford Achievement TestParent
Meeting
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Important Information

• Reading /Math Test
• Week of April 13-17
• Makeup dates April 16th-17th
• The test will be untimed. Students can take as
  much time as they
• need. The students will receive percentile and
  stanine scores ranging
• from 1 to 9. Review all of the skills that were
  discussed in this workshop. Home learning
  reflects the skills that will be tested.
• Scores will be sent home as soon as they are
  received.

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Reading

• Common Core is what we are using in our
  curriculum and calls for the integration of
  content into Reading and Math.
• The reading section is composed of different
  types of reading passages including poems,
  stories, recipes and advertisements.
• Students will read and answer questions about the
  passages. They will need to go back to the
  passages to find the answer. All questions will
  be multiple choice.
• Students will need to complete the test
  independently.

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• Main Idea
• Example Questions
• 1. What is the story mostly about?
• 2. What would be another good title for
  
• this story?
• 3. What is the main idea of the story?

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Cause and Effect Cause - how and why
something happened? Effect - what happened as
a result? Clue Words so, so that, if, reason,
because. Example Questions 1. What
caused _________ to happen? 2. What happened
after?
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Sequencing Order of events
Clue Words first, next, last, then, after,
finally, later, in the morning,
etc. Example Questions 1. What
happened before.? 2. What happened
after.? 3. The boxes tell some things that
happened in the story.
What belongs in Box 2?
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Drawing Conclusions Example Questions
1. What do you think will happen
next? 2. What is probably true?
3. Why do you think it
happened?
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Authors Purpose
Why did the author write the story? Example
Questions 1. Why do you think the author
wrote the story? ( To entertain, to
tell us information, etc.? ) 2. The author
wrote the story mainly to _____. 3. The author
wanted the reader to ______. 4. Which of these
would the author probably agree
with?
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Fantasy or Realism Fantasy - not real, make
believe Realism - real, true, can
happen Example Questions 1. Which of these
could really happen? 2. Which of these could not
happen? 3. This story is mostly make believe
because _________________.
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How can parents help with reading? Read with
your child every night. Make predictions and
discuss the events and characters as you
read together. Tap into the types of books that
interest your child. Make sure that your child
is reading fluently, with good expression,
and with understanding. Go to the i-Ready
website to practice reading skills! Just
READ! Be a great model- let them see you read!
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• Grades 1 2 SAT-10
• Common Core Question Task Cards
  Functional
• Initial Understanding
• Ask a question that requires students to simply
  locate details or identify
• chronological order. The answers are right there
  in the poster, chart, flyer,
• or recipe.
• Who, what, when, where, how many, or how much?
• According to the ________, what will the children
  learn?
• What do you do first/last?
• What did he/she do first/last?
• Where did ____ go before/after _____?
• Which ______ was seen first/last?
• Step ___ tells ______.
• The story tells you that _______.

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• Grades 1 2 SAT 10
• Common Core Question Task Cards
• Functional
• Interpretation
• Ask a question that requires students to draw
• conclusions from the information given, apply
  ideas
• from text to a new situation, or determine the
  main idea.
• Who, what, when, where, how many, or how much?
• Why did _____ have_____?
• How did ______ do _____?
• What might be funny? (ha ha)
• Why do you think _______?
• Which of these is true?

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VOCABULARY (LA.3-5.1.6.3, 1.6.7, 1.6.8, 1.6.9)
Context Read this sentence from the passage.
There was so much junk that it looked like a
train wreck. What does the word wreck mean?
AUTHORS PURPOSE PERSPECTIVE (LA.3-5.1.7.2)
Authors Purpose Why does the author most
likely write the story/passage?
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MAIN IDEA (LA.3-5.1.7.3) What is the MAIN IDEA
of this story/passage/article? What is the most
important lesson learned in the story/passage?
Why do you think this story/article has the
title ?
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER (LA.3-5.1.7.3) What
happened just BEFORE/AFTER ? What happened
first, last, etc. ?
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RELEVANT SUPPORTING DETAILS (LA.3-5.1.7.3) Which
is a way to improve _______________ ? At the end
of the story, where does __________go?
COMPARE/ CONTRAST (LA.3-5.1.7.7) Compare How
are _________and ___________ALIKE? What are the
SIMILARITIES between ___ and ___ ? What is the
author comparing in the sentence above?
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TEXT FEATURES In Literary Text (LA.3-5.2.2.1)
Which sentence from the story best describes the
illustration on page ___? The purpose of the
illustration on page ___, is to show the reader
. These cards will be useful for helping
students with their comprehension skills.
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Math

• This portion of the test will be administered
  orally.
• Students will listen to questions read aloud.
• Teachers will read questions from a script
  once and only once.

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Number Concepts
Skills to review with your children Read
numbers. Count objects. Compare
numbers. Understand place value to the hundreds
place. Put numbers in order. Count by 2s, 3s,
4s, 5s and 10s. Complete number
patterns. Identifying even and odd numbers
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Problem Solving

• Skills to review and practice with your children
• Listening and reading word problems carefully.
• Writing down important information.
• Listening and looking for words that tell whether
  to add or subtract to solve a word problem.
• Selecting reasonable solutions.

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Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication
(Repeated Addition Example 444)
Concepts to review with your children Addition
and subtraction facts to 18. Adding and
subtracting with regrouping. Writing and solving
numbers sentences.
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Fractions

• Concepts to review with your children
• Recognizing Fractions.
• Identifying how many parts to a whole.

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Geometry

• Concepts to review with you children
• Identifying shapes.
• Identifying lines of symmetry.
• Identifying Congruent Figures.

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Measurement

• Skills to review with your children
• Estimating to the nearest inch and centimeter.
• Recognizing relationships of feet, inches/ meter
  and centimeter.
• Finding the Perimeter and Area of Squares and
  Rectangles.
• Using Volume, Mass and Capacity.
• Telling Time to the Half Hour and Quarter Hour.
• Finding Value of Coins.

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Problem Solving

• Skills to review and practice with your children
• Listening and reading word problems carefully.
• Writing down important information.
• Listening and looking for words that tell whether
  to add or subtract to solve a word problem.
• Using Graphs, Tables and Charts.
• Estimating results.
• Selecting reasonable solutions.

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How can parents help with math?
Go over the homework with your child each
night. The skills for the homework covers the
practice needed for the test. Go to the
i-Ready website to practice math skills! Read
the directions for the test orally to your child.

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Preparation for SAT

• Practice skills with homework and use websites
  for reading and math.
• From now until the test
• Get a full nights rest.
• Eat a good breakfast.
• Arrive to school on time.

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Thank you parents and guardians for supporting
our common goal. Teachers Parents Student
Academic Success