My students love anything that has a competition built into it. Let's face it, we all give a little extra when there are bragging rights involved, and they are no different. To make boring test prep questions a bit more fun, I institute a little partner competition in the classroom. What I love most about this is that all you need is a packet of … [Read more...] about Partner Contest Test Prep Strategy
Making Test Prep Fun
The next couple of weeks are full of test prep in reading and math. This can be really boring and tedious, or it can be novel and fun. I am hoping for the latter. Over the next week or so I will be posting about different ways that I am trying to keep test prep fresh, unique, and meaningful for all of my students as well as myself. I will … [Read more...] about Making Test Prep Fun
Expository Writing
Here in Texas, fourth grade has a big push in writing since it is the first grade level for it to be tested. We have been working on it all year, but really started hammering out expository recently. Personally, I think that expository writing is a wee bit easier because it is all based on facts and reasons. Instead of having to come up with … [Read more...] about Expository Writing