FCAT Concerns
Are you a teacher who spends your days teaching to the FC AT test? Or a parent who is stressing about getting your child to pass the FCAT test? IF this is you, I would love to share a few products that I personally guarantee to help children pass the FCAT Test. I have used them and know they are successful or your money back.
Reading Comprehension is one part that I am very familiar with having a few teens that I personally know and have helped. I would strongly recommend Reading Detective. 15 minutes a day is all it takes to complete one activity. There are pretest, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards.
The standards-based critical thinking activities of Reading Detective® develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills children need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping children understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, making conclusions, determining cause-and-effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.
Students read and analyze short literature passages and stories that include fiction and nonfiction genres. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence evidence to support their answers. There are other products that help in the Reading and Writing parts of the FCAT, which you may look at on my site such as Word Roots, Building Thinking Skills and Language Mechanics. Also, Math Detective helps with comprehension. I like to use this when a child really likes math and struggles with comprehension.
I have not had any personal one on one with the math part of the FCAT testing. However through a few of my customers who use our product I have heard several great things about Scratch your Brain, Math Detective (I have done a few of these) and even Algebra Word Problems because it helps children understand why they need to know Algebra. If you’re not sure what product to choose from you may try a sample page or call me and I will personally help you find the best product for your class or child. I usually, tell parents if there is only one thing you want to purchase I suggest Building Thinking Skills as it helps children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper contact learning in all subjects.
The activities are sequenced developmentally. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they:
• Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics.
• Distinguish similarities and differences
• Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies.