SOL Readiness: 4th Grade (using technology ?)

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SOL Readiness 4th Grade (using technology ?)
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What SOLs will your child be taking?

• Reading comprehension and literary
  strategies
• Mathematics Level 4 ALL students
• VA Studies VA History (1600s to 2000s)
  and VA Geography

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Where to start

• Preparation BEGINS at home.
• What your child should be bringing home
• Study SKILLS
• Eating right during testing
• Getting plenty of rest during testing

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How can you help your child study OTHER than
using the book?!?!?!?

• TALK to them about what they are learning.
• Have your child teach you.
• Interactive Notebooks and Binders
• STUDY ISLAND
• Online sites

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Talk with your child

• Ask them what they reviewed today.
• Ask them what NEW material they discussed today.
• Ask them about concepts that still confuse them.
  Clarify if you feel comfortableAsk US, using the
  agenda, if you do not.

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Have your child teach you

• Becoming the teacher allows your child to review
  and study in a FUN way.
• Make sure that the material they are teaching you
  is RIGHT! Have the book out and double check the
  facts they tell you!
• Have them PROVE their explanation.

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Interactive Notebooks and Binders

• Notes given using the Interactive Notebook and
  Binder are OFTEN NOT in the textbook.
• Make sure the child is reviewing the information
  in these NIGHTLY.
• Make CONNECTIONS with your child about classroom
  discussions they have participated in and the
  material you are reviewing with them.

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STUDY ISLANDwww.studyisland.com

• In school, your child is using an ONLINE resource
  known as Study Islandthis is an excellent
  resource that your child can access at home as
  well.
• Do you know how to get on the site? Does your
  child know how to USE the site? Ask
  them?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
• Are they using this site at home? How often?
• Do you know how to chart their progress?
• Does your child know how to see what they have
  missed?

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ONLINE SITES

• There are NUMEROUS online sites that are designed
  to help you, help your child prepare for the
  SOLs. You just need to KNOW where to find them.
• Here are a few of our FAVORITES

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READING sites

• Using the DUTROW homepage and the STUDENT
  RESOURCES link (SOL Review), you can access sites
  which will addresswww.dutrow.nn.k12.va.us
• Comprehension
• Fact and Opinion
• Cause and Effect
• Inferences and Conclusion
• Authors Purpose

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MATH sites

• Using the DUTROW homepage and the STUDENT
  RESOURCES link (SOL Review), you can access sites
  which will addresswww.dutrow.nn.k12.va.us
• Number and Number Sense
• Fractions
• Measurement and Geometry
• Multiplication
• Probability and Statistics
• Algebra
• Games for Review

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Also tryfor math

• www.aplusmath.com
• http//Npes.nn.k12.va.us/Mathgames/games20for204
  th20Grade.htm

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VA Studies sites

• Using the DUTROW homepage and the STUDENT
  RESOURCES link (SOL Review), you can access sites
  which will addresswww.dutrow.nn.k12.va.us
• Geography
• Native Americans
• Colonization
• American Revolution
• New Nation
• The Civil War Reconstruction
• Civil Rights
• 20th Century Virginia

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YetMORESocial Studies sites

• http//teacherweb.com/VA/LeeHallElementarySchool/F
  ifth/SD3L1.stm
• http//www.fcps.edu/HutchisonES/solquiz/history.ht
  mlhistory20top
• http//www.fcps.edu/HutchisonES/solquiz/peoplac.ht
  ml
• http//www.iq.poquoson.org/vscomprehensiveep2.htm

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Other Sites to consider

• www.solpass.org
• There is a fee associated with this site, BUT
  it offers wonderful SOL review.
• www.internet4classrooms.com
• www.funbrain.com
• http//education.jlab.org

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Last BUT not Least

• Always remember to accentuate the POSITIVE when
  reviewing with your child.
• If they believe that YOU believe in them, then
  their confidence level will rise.
• KEEP IT POSITIVE ?

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SOL Testing Schedule

• Testing will begin after Memorial Day break.
• Check your childs agenda nightly for updated
  test dates and times.
• If you have any SOL questions, feel free to
  contact your childs teacher.
• As ALWAYS, thank YOU for your support of your
  childs academic success ?