I have a third grade tutoring student who is getting prepared for the STAAR. He does an awesome job in math, but it reading (like most students), he gets tired and bored and then stops proving answers. His mom wanted me to work with him on test strategies, proving answers, and drawing conclusions/inferential thinking.
Our first session, we strictly worked on making inferences from pictures and then backing up those inferences with evidence from the picture.
Our next session, we moved more into reading and making quick and easy inference. For this I used a free resource that I found here. This worked great for a quick session starter.
Our first session, we strictly worked on making inferences from pictures and then backing up those inferences with evidence from the picture.
Our next session, we moved more into reading and making quick and easy inference. For this I used a free resource that I found here. This worked great for a quick session starter.
Next, I used another free resource that worked really well. This was a perfect thing to reinforce the point of going back into the story to look for the answer. I found these here and saw that this seller has quite a few other ones like this available for purchase.
We also worked on questions that he had previously missed on a STAAR-type test (the district's "practice") to go back, look, and answer the question, "Where was the answer?". I talk more about this in a post called: "Using Old Tests".