Prescriptive Instruction (PI):

Many of our students are benefiting from the additional support that our PI lab gives. PI helps our kids get the additional help they need in various areas within reading and math.

This link provides the login screen to access PI practice right from your own home. Your child can practice the skills that he or she needs additional support on.

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Log in: (last name first name) - do not put spaces between the names.

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ClassScape:

*This link must be opened using "Firefox". If you do not have Firefox as a web browser, you can download it from the internet.

ClassScape is a great tool for asking EOG type questions. It allows teachers and parents to assess how our children our doing on particular skills (objectives) that they must know at each grade level. It also gives our children practice with structured questions that reflect EOG vocabulary and format.

Ways To Help Your Child Succeed in 5th Grade

1. Take the time to read with your child daily.

2. Provide enrichment materials, including children's books and magazines and educational toys. Even looking through the newspaper - especially the weather section - and discuss words and their meanings, how sentences are set up, etc.

3. Provide a quiet, private work space where your child can study undisturbed.

4. Keep your child's work space well-stocked with all the supplies he/she needs to complete their assignments.

5. Take time to sit down with your child and help him/her schedule homework into his daily routine.

6. Reward good grades with recognition and praise, and avoid the temptation to use money or food as a bribe for good performance.

7. Take advantage of educational events in your community as often as possible.

8. Value your child's uniqeness, and avoid comparing him/her to others - including other siblings!

9. Limit the amount of television, video games, and non-educational computer games your child watches to one to two hours on school days.

10. Encourage creative thinking by asking your child for help to solve problems.

EOG Preperation

Standardized Testing often uses words in the questions that they are asked that are all too often confusing for students. Parents can help their children feel more confident in answering these types of questions by practicing what they mean and also posing questions of your own involving this words.

12 Power Words:

Trace

Analyze

Infer

Evaluate

Formulate

Describe

Support

Explain

Summarize

Compare

Contrast

Predict

EOG Verbs:

Apply

Assume

Choose

Communicate

Compare

Contrast

Conclude

Construct

Convince

Define

Develop

Discuss

Elaborate

Emphasize

Evaluate

Explain

Identify

Imagine

Infer

Investigate

Justify

List

Organize

Predict

Present

Pretend

React

Relate

Represent

Select

Solve

State

Summarize

EOG Answer Choices:

Most Likely

Most Similar

Best Answer

Best Example

Best Describes

Mainly

Approximately

About

Based on

According to

Some instance

Similar to

Different from

Results of