ELE: Test taking skills

[Joan Brown <jmbrown@PARLORCITY.COM>]

Hello, all -
Our school, K-5, will be beginning the year with an emphasis on test taking
skills. Our scores on standardized and state required tests have lagged
behind other similar schools in our area and so we are hoping to give our
students some tools for approaching those exams differently.  Many classroom
teachers feel they have already been doing a fairly good job, but the new
enrichment teacher and I would like to add something significant to the
effort.  She will be going into classrooms for some fun test taking "magic"
and I would like to come up with something unique for the media center.
Anyone have great ideas for linking media classes to test taking? As far as
I can tell, our Indiana ISTEP tests do not include actual library skills
questions, but I'm sure there's something pertinent I can add.  Thanks for
your input!

Joan Brown, Librarian
Lancaster Elementary School
Bluffton, IN
jmbrown@parlorcity.com

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