Practice for the Maps test in Reading.
MAPS TEST Practice in Reading
Practice for the MAPS test in Math.
MAPS TEST Practice in Math
Think Central is a website that allows parents & students access
to the Harcourt Reading/Language Arts materials that we use in
the classroom. We will also be taking our Weekly Reading tests on
Think Central every Friday; we will take the Skills portion of
the test online. The Skills Test is the entire test except for
the first 8 comprehension questions & the short response that's
worth 2 points- so 10 points total. This 10 point comprehension
section we will take on paper as we have in the past and it will
be scored separately. So students will now have 2 grades for
their Weekly Reading Test- a Comprehension grade worth 10 points
and the Skills Test grade worth 30 points or more. Both grades
will be included under your child's Reading grade in Gradebook.
You will be able to log onto to Think Central with your child's
username which is his/her ID # & a password. All students have
brought home their ID #'s today. Ask your child for his/her
password. Once you log on, you will be able to click on THINGS TO
DO, MY LIBRARY & MY TEST SCORES. Clicking on "MY TEST SCORES"
will give you your child's Reading test score & you will see your
child's answers & what he/she had wrong; you will be able to go
over the test with your child at home. Clicking on "MY LIBRARY"
will give you access to some of the worksheets that your child
completes in class for Reading/Grammar. You can print these out
for additional practice at home. Clicking on "THINGS TO DO" will
give you assignments that your child can do at home or
assignments for school. Right now there aren't any online
assignments listed under "THINGS TO DO". Overrall this is a great
website that provides many resources for parents & students.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
THINK CENTRAL
3rd grade ISAT information for 2012-2013 from the Illinois State
Board
of Education and interactive ISAT sample questions
**Test Dates March 4-March 15, 2013**
Illinois State Board of Education-Student Assessment Information
This is the link to the 2011 ISAT Test Prep Book on the ISBE
website. It has Math & Reading extended response questions,
Reading comprehension, Math problem solving concepts/skills &
Math short response questions that you can print out for your
child.
2011 ISAT TEST PREP booklet from ISBE
This is a link for an interactive ISAT Practice Test that
students can take online! Have your child take the 2009, 2010 &
the
2011 tests.
INTERACTIVE ISAT PRACTICE TEST
This is another interactive website that allows students to take
a practice test in Reading online. The website also gives
feedback on why specific answer choices are not correct and it
grades the test at the end. Choose grade 3 and then click on
Level C on the the page that will follow. This resource is FREE
only until April
30, 2012.
Rally Education-Online Practice ISAT
The IL ISAT COACH is a great ISAT Test prep resource that we use
at Disney. This book is available through Triumph Learning. When
you arrive at the website click on the ISAT Coach for Reading
and/or Math. Students do not bring this book home but parents may
purchase it online.
IL ISAT COACH for Reading and/or Math
We use Buckle Down with the third graders at Disney to help them
prepare for the ISAT. Students do not bring these home but we use
them regularly at school; parents may purchase them from the
publisher. Look for ISAT Buckle Down for Reading & the book for
Math
ISAT TEST PREP- Buckle Down series
Here's the link for ST MATH. Students have received the
instructions for logging onto ST MATH at home (purple paper) &
they are also posted on the website. Each child has a unique
password given to him/her by ST MATH that he/she must memorize;
teachers do not have a copy of the password. I will be monitoring
the students' progress and we will be working on ST Math at
school as well. Try to allow your
child time to work on ST Math at home; research shows that
students who complete at least 75% of the entire ST Math syllabus
(or more) will show greater success on the Math portion of the
ISAT.
ST MATH
The publisher of our textbook series at Disney for Reading, Math,
Science & Social Studies is Harcourt. Harcourt has a wide range
of parent resources in all subject areas in their parent store.
Go to the website & click on the link for "Parent Store".
Harcourt Publishers
Order books online for your child. Books will be sent to the
classroom. Use the code J4WXW to link your order to our class.
Orders will be submitted once a month.
Scholastic Book Clubs
This is a video from New American Cursive that shows proper
pencil and paper position for cursive writing as well as the
correct way to hold your pencil for right-handers.
New American Cursive Video for Right-handers
This is a video from New American Cursive that shows proper
pencil and paper position for cursive writing as well as the
correct way to hold your pencil for left-handers.
New American Cursive Video for Left-handers
Fun,Educational Activities for the Brain!!
FUN BRAIN!
We are reading a story about bats this week- "Bat Loves the
Night", so we are
studying the characteristics of bats. One of those
characteristics is the
bat's ability to use sound to locate and identify objects which
helps it to
navigate when flying and hunting for food; this is called
echolocation. TeacherTube has a cute video that illustrates
echolocation.
ECHOLOCATION
Computer animated video of the Mars Rover landing in August, 2012.
Mars Curiosity Rover Landing
Students can log in to Fast Forword at home. They should enter
the name of their school: Walt Disney Magnet School (the school
will show up & they should click on the name.)The username is
their first name (it may be lowercase letters) & the password
is "disney."
FASTFORWORD LINK
Students can look up Scholastic magazine issues that focus on Math, Reading,
Science & Social Studies, watch the accompanying videos & learn new vocabulary
words, skills & concepts.
Scholastic Magazines
Fun Math Activities!!!
Hooda Math
Other Resources