Happy Monday everyone! I hope that you all had a relaxing and egg-filled holiday weekend! Now, it is back to work! I am going to continue sharing another unit for test-taking skills I am going to use with my 5th graders. This unit can be adapted for 4th grade as well! I will also say that I did NOT come up with this idea. The lovely counselor at ElementarySchoolCounselor.org gets full credit for this creative idea. I do want to share some additional items I have created based on certain things I need for curriculum purposes. Lesson 1: What is your Testing Monster?? 1. Begin by reviewing with your students some test-taking strategies. Have them discuss some feelings they may feel before, during, or after a test. 2. Next, review the first half of the powerpoint from ElementaySchoolcounselor.org with them. If you click here, you can download an editable version!
3. Next, have your students complete the Testing Monsters pre-test. They will circle which monster they identify more with, or they can choose that they identify with both of them. Finally, have them write down some test-taking skills they already know about at the bottom of the page. Lesson 2: Conquer Your Test-Taking Monster! 1. Pass your students pre-tests back to them. Tell them this will help them with their note-taking for this unit. 2. Cover the remaining slides on the power point up that was mentioned above until you reach the emotion zones. You can talk about these, but the next lesson is focused heavily on them, so you do not need to go into as much detail . As you do this, have your students take notes on their Monster Note-Taking Worksheet you will provide them. The note-taking worksheet can be downloaded below! The note-taking will take me the remainder of the lesson. Please keep this for your next lessons! For organization purposes, I will have the kids staple it to their pre-test; less papers to shuffle through later! Lesson 3: Channel Your Inner"Boo"! (Emotion Zones) 1. Have the students start by completing a Think-Pair-Share activity to come up with words to describe the character Boo, in the movie. Hopefully students will think of words such as: brave, curious, happy, loving, etc. If you need a clip to show students who have not seen the movie, here is one. 2. Explain the emotion zones to your students. If your students are already familiar with them, then you may move through this part a little quicker. If not, it may take a littler longer, and I would only use the top part of the worksheet for the lesson activity. The objective is to make sure the student understand the different range of emotions you can feel when you take a test, and which ones help you the most when taking a test. 3. Activity: Have students complete the handout below. Lesson 4: What is your Game Plan?? 1. Review with your students the test-taking skills you have covered so far. Now for the favorite part: the post-assessment! Have your students complete the following activity to demonstrate how they are going to conquer their test-taking monster! Happy Test-Taking!!
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