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Test Taking Tips During
the Test
- Read the question carefully. Be sure you understand what the
question is asking.
- Read every answer before you choose an answer.
- If you don’t know which one for sure,
rule out choices that you know are wrong then pick the best
answer.
- After you finish the test, read over your answers and make
sure they answer the question correctly.
- If you begin to feel nervous, take a quiet deep breathe and
relax.
- Say to yourself, I can do this, I am doing my best work.
- Relax and smile - YOU ARE GREAT!!!
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Tips for Parents
- Be positive and upbeat with your child. Extra
stress from parents can make the child more anxious.
- Keep with normal family routines: soccer, baseball,
and playing around the house.
- Encourage your child to be physically active after
each day of testing to relieve stress.
- Eat nourishing foods to keep a strong body and
mind.
- Encourage your child to get a good night’s
sleep.
- If your child states or seems to be nervous, please
reassure them that they will do fine.
- Plan a fun family activity to relieve the anxiety
of testing.
- Let your child know that doing their best work
on the FCAT is the most important thing.
- Have students practice responding to sample
short and extended response items. Discuss their responses and
how they could improve on them.
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Tips for Helping Your Child
- Read to your child.
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This improves your child’s listening skills.
- Talk with your child about a book that he/she has read.
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This improves your child’s comprehension skills.
- Ask your child to retell the story in order.
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This improves your child’s sequence comprehension skills.
- Show your child the captions under the pictures in a magazine.
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This improves your child’s ability to find information.
- Discuss words your child does not know.
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This improves your child’s vocabulary.
- Ask your child what was the important thing in a story.
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This improves your child’s understanding of the main idea.
- Ask your child to explain why he/she thought this was the most
important thing in the story.
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This improves your child’s focus on the details of the
story.
- Listen to your child read books that he/she has read many times.
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This improves your child’s fluency.
- Show your child, as you read, what you do
when you don’t
understand what you read.
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This improves your child’s ability to read for meaning.
- Misread a word and then correct yourself with the right word.
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This improves your child’s ability to understand that readers
do make mistakes, but read for understanding.
- Encourage your child to read his /her book, while you read
a book.
› This builds a love of reading and shows that it is important to
you.
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FCAT Links
What We Need to
Achieve "A" Status
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