TEST TAKING
TEN HABITS FOR TEST SUCCESS
1. Study and review material at night before you go to sleep. Shortly after you awaken in the morning review and reinforce the material.
2. Ask questions. Asking questions stimulates the thinking process. Ask WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and HOW.
3. Exercise on a regular basis. It increases blood flow to the brain and helps keep you mentally alert.
4. Use positive self-talk. What you say to yourself affects your performance.
5. Review and re-think as you read. At various points, test yourself to see if youre grasping the concepts. Summarize what youve read by rephrasing it in your own words.
6. Listen to Mozart. Experts believe that the highly complex structure of Mozarts music stimulates the brain pathways that are important to thinking.
7. Get proper nutrition. Vitamins and minerals play a key role in brain functioning.
8. Relax. Studies strongly suggest that relaxation helps in retaining and retrieving information that we want to remember. Check your posture and bring your shoulders back. Take deep, relaxing breaths.
9. Skim first, then read for detail. Glance over headings and subheadings, foreward, bold type, illustrations, and graphs. Read the opening and closing paragraphs and the first sentences of each paragraph. Then, read for detail and look for answers to questions that youve asked yourself.
10. Be aware. Sharpen your sense of awareness by paying closer attention to daily things around you. Look at things in more detail.
TIPS FOR PARENTS TO CREATE LIFETIME READERS
THE THREE BS
B IS FOR BOOKS : ownership of a book with the childs name inscribed inside a book that doesnt have to be returned to the library or shared with siblings.
B IS FOR BOOK BASKET: there is probably more reading done in the bathrooms of America than in all the libraries or classrooms combined put a book basket in there, stocked with magazines, books, and newspapers, put another one near the kitchen table, and another one beside the bed or on the nightstand next to the bed.
P.S. no TV in the kitchen books instead !!! B IS FOR BEDLAMP: most children will do anything to stay up later let them read by a dim light their eyes will grow heavy after about 10 minutes.
Finally:
1. Read to your children on a regular basis.
2. Have a wide variety of reading material available.
3. Paper and pencil should be readily available.
4. Praise your childs efforts at reading and writing, take them to the library, buy books, display their written stories.
TEN HABITS FOR TEST SUCCESS
1. Study and review material at night before you go to sleep. Shortly after you awaken in the morning review and reinforce the material.
2. Ask questions. Asking questions stimulates the thinking process. Ask WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and HOW.
3. Exercise on a regular basis. It increases blood flow to the brain and helps keep you mentally alert.
4. Use positive self-talk. What you say to yourself affects your performance.
5. Review and re-think as you read. At various points, test yourself to see if youre grasping the concepts. Summarize what youve read by rephrasing it in your own words.
6. Listen to Mozart. Experts believe that the highly complex structure of Mozarts music stimulates the brain pathways that are important to thinking.
7. Get proper nutrition. Vitamins and minerals play a key role in brain functioning.
8. Relax. Studies strongly suggest that relaxation helps in retaining and retrieving information that we want to remember. Check your posture and bring your shoulders back. Take deep, relaxing breaths.
9. Skim first, then read for detail. Glance over headings and subheadings, foreward, bold type, illustrations, and graphs. Read the opening and closing paragraphs and the first sentences of each paragraph. Then, read for detail and look for answers to questions that youve asked yourself.
10. Be aware. Sharpen your sense of awareness by paying closer attention to daily things around you. Look at things in more detail.
TIPS FOR PARENTS TO CREATE LIFETIME READERS
THE THREE BS
B IS FOR BOOKS : ownership of a book with the childs name inscribed inside a book that doesnt have to be returned to the library or shared with siblings.
B IS FOR BOOK BASKET: there is probably more reading done in the bathrooms of America than in all the libraries or classrooms combined put a book basket in there, stocked with magazines, books, and newspapers, put another one near the kitchen table, and another one beside the bed or on the nightstand next to the bed.
P.S. no TV in the kitchen books instead !!! B IS FOR BEDLAMP: most children will do anything to stay up later let them read by a dim light their eyes will grow heavy after about 10 minutes.
Finally:
1. Read to your children on a regular basis.
2. Have a wide variety of reading material available.
3. Paper and pencil should be readily available.
4. Praise your childs efforts at reading and writing, take them to the library, buy books, display their written stories.