TAKS INFORMATION NIGHT FOURTH GRADE READING

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TAKS INFORMATION NIGHTFOURTH GRADE READING
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Agenda

• Components
• Strategies
• How to help at home

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Components

• Reading
• 40 questions
• Math
• 42 questions

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Components - Reading

• Found directly in the text
• 20 (third grade 45)
• Implied
• 65 (third grade 50)
• Based on literary author analysis
• 15 (third grade 5 )

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Strategies - Reading

• PREP
• Preview Read the title and look at the pictures
• Read Read the passage twice, underlining
  important information, including vocabulary.
  Summarize each paragraph off to the side.

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Strategies - Reading

• PREP
• Exam Read each question and ALL answer choices.
  Put an X on the ones you know are wrong and a ?
  by ones you are sure about.
• Prove Go back in the story, underline, and put
  the question number beside where you found the
  answer.

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FAQs How is my child being prepared for the
TAKS Reading test?

• Each class works on reading skills such as
• fact or opinion
• double meaning words
• sequencing
• cause and effect
• TAKS passages-showing students how to extract and
  summarize important information from each
  paragraph.

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FAQs What can we do at home to help prepare for
the TAKS Reading test?

• Have time set aside at home where everyone is
  actively involved in reading.
• Read aloud with your child and spend time talking
  about stories, pictures, and words. Talking
  about the story is as important as reading it.

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FAQs What can we do at home to help prepare for
the TAKS Reading test?

• Preview the story and predict what the story will
  be about.
• Ask questions such as Why do you think the
  author chose that ending, and would you have
  ended the book differently?
• Authors purpose Entertain, inform or persuade

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FAQs What can we do at home to help prepare for
the TAKS Reading test?

• In the kitchen, have your child read directions
  for a recipe and help you follow the steps in
  order.
• In the car, have your child find where you are on
  the map and follow along pointing out road names
  as you drive.

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FAQs What can we do at home to help prepare for
the TAKS Reading test?

• Ask your child to look up phone numbers.
• Allow your child to help read manuals while
  trying to build or fix something.

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• FOURTH GRADE MATH

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Components - Math

• Holly displays her 54 music boxes on 6 shelves in
  her room. She also keeps 12 dolls on the
  shelves. If she arranges the music boxes and the
  dolls equally, how many items are on each shelf?

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Components - Math

• There are 24 hours in a day, and 365 days in a
  year. Which is the best estimate of the number
  of hours in a year?
• a. 12,000 c. 8,000
• b. 390 d. 380

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Strategies - Math

• 1. Identify important words
• 2. Identify the question
• 3. Work all problems or draw pictures to solve
• 4. Check answer to see if it makes sense

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FAQs What can we do at home to help prepare for
the TAKS Math test?

• Work on Flashcards/math facts daily
• Have your child help you measure ingredients
  while cooking
• Allow your child to try the interactive websites
  that will be provided

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FAQs What can we do at home to help prepare for
the TAKS Math test?

• Have your child correct any failing work to learn
  from his/her mistakes
• Play board games using money
• Let your child calculate the bill tip at
  restaurants

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Test Dates

• Math Tuesday, April 29, 2009
• Reading Wednesday, April 30, 2009
• Make-up dates Thursday Friday of that same week

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FOURTH GRADE WRITING
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Agenda

• Components
• Expectations
• How to help at home

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Components

• Part One
• Edit and Revise
• 4 passages
• 28 questions

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Edit and Revise Strategies

• Whisper read the passage.
• Read the first questions and answer choices.
• Underline the sentence in question.
• (continued)

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Edit and Revise Strategies

• Examine each answer choice. Put a ? or x.
• Choose the best answer and insert the change.
• Complete all questions.
• Reread passage with all the changes made.

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Components

• Part Two
• Written composition

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• Write a composition about an adventure you have
  had.

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Score 2
Spelunking Have you ever gone spelunking? I
have. My family went on a trip to a cave. Once we
got there, we had to fill out paperwork before
they let us in. Once we went inside, I looked at
all the cool rocks. I explored the area looking
at everything! It was so much fun crawling
through the nooks and crannies.
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Score 2 - Continued
Then, I was following my mom and dad and I saw a
hole. I called my Parents, and they rushed over
to me. We went through the hole, and we saw ond
ther. We decided to rest before going throughit.
When we finished resting, we went through the
second hole and we saw hand reds of rock
crystals!
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Score 2 - Continued
They were lining the walls, the floor, the
ceiling. They were everywhere! So you should try
the fun adventure of spelunking. Who knows, you
might find a hidden area too! If you do, take
pictures to keep forever.
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Same Prompt

• Write about an adventure you have had.
• Notice the difference in writing style

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Score 4
The Adventures of Penny I just want you to
know me a little before I just go off and tell
you my story. Im a penny. Im copper, always
moving, around, go into stores, pockets, jars,
piggy banks, coin holders, and more.
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Score 4 - Continued
One day I was just in a piggy bank when it
happenend. The small young boy that put me in
here 20 years ago is now a tall man that is
taking me out. When I got out, the light was so
bright and wonderful. Then all of a sudden I am
in a dark pocket. There was all my friends here
too. Nickle, Dime, Quarter, and a lot more of my
friends.
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Score 4 - Continued
We were all jumping around in that pocket. We
were all bumping heads. One dollar ot lucky and
got to go in his sock. We all hard a bell ring.
Then the man came to a stop. The man got a pair
of shoes and took them to the cashier. He got all
of us out and dropped me on the ground. I was
under his shoe so it was pitch dark again. About
two minutes
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Score 4 - Continued
later I was in the light on the ground with no
one around me. All of a sudden a boy walked over
to me. The boy looked about 5 or 6 years old He
had blue eyes. Then he put me in his pocket. Then
about 20 minutes later I was on a bed. I had
never talked to people before so it was cool. I
said you have wonderful blue eyes. The boy turned
aorund and looked at me with a look on his face. I
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Score 4 - Continued
said it again. He got down on his legs and asked
me if I had talked to him. I just said yes. He
asked how I learned how to talk. I just said from
people. His mom called him so he picked me up and
dropped me into his globe piggy bank. It was dark
again. It took a minute for my eyes to get used
to the dark. I was on one side of the bank and
then I saw the others on the other side.
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Score 4 - Continued
I looked at them for aminute. It was quiet. They
looked like they were sleeping. They all looked
just like me. I didnt want to bother them. So
now I am just sitting here waiting for them to
wake up. Ive made new friends now in the globe.
Every once in awhile the boy comes back to us and
shakes us out of the globe.
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Score 4 - Continued
We all get placed one on top of the other, and he
counts us all. Then we go back into the globe and
wait for a new friend to be dropped inside.
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Expectations -Written Composition

• 1 Illegible, off topic, unorganized
• 2 legible, organized, on topic
• 3 2, plus has added voice
• 4 - 3, plus reader is immersed in the paper and
  it is memorable

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Types of Prompts

• The funniest thing that ever happened
• Write about a day you will never forget
• Your greatest adventure
• A time you were nervous
• Someone important in your life

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FAQs How is my child being prepared for the
TAKS test?

• Grammar
• Writing
• Six Traits of Writing
• Journal Writing
• Speed Week

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Six Traits of Writing

• Ideas
• Organization
• Sentence Fluency
• Voice
• Word Choice
• Conventions

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• BA
• Action verb to bring you into a situation

• I walked into the room
• I stepped into the arena
• I darted across the field
• I opened the door
• I entered the backyard
• I jumped up

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• DA
• One of your five senses

• saw the dog
• smelled the fresh coffee
• felt the warm breeze
• heard the crash

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• Bing
• What you thought

• remembered that my homework was due today.
• realized I was late for dinner.
• recognized Corbin Bleu.
• thought to myself that voice I heard was Miley
  Cyrus.

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FAQs What can we do at home to help prepare for
the TAKS test?

• Grammar and Spelling
• Discuss writing topics in everyday situations
• Encouragement

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Writing Test Date

• Tuesday, March 3, 2009

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The best gift a parent can give their child is
involvement in their education.
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FAQs What about lunch? Breaks? Snacks?

• Students will go to lunch with their class.
  Please do not plan lunch with your child on this
  day.
• Snacks will be provided for each child at break
  time, which is scheduled by the teachers.

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More Questions?

• Your childs teacher
• Principal Allison Miller
• School Counselor Laurie Maguin
• SCUCISD Central Office
• Region 13 Office
• Texas Education Agency

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QUESTIONS??