Items Pertaining to SOLs and SOL Review
Parent Strategies for SOLs |
Reading:
- Once a week, have your child read aloud to you
- Ask your child questions about what they're reading:
- Ask your child questions about what they're reading:
- Who's your favorite character?
- What's one adjective you would use to describe your favorite character? Why that word? What actions do you see in the book that prove they are that way?
- Is your character facing any problems?
- What's the setting of your book?
- Has anything happened to you that is similar to what's happening with the character?
- Have you ever seen anything in another book you've read that's similar to your book?
- Summarize what you've just read. (if you're confused because you haven't read the book, ask your child to explain more or ask specific questions about it and if they can't explain it well, they may have a book that's too hard)
- Are there any parts of the book that's confusing to you?
- What's one part that you think is really funny?
- What do you predict will happen next?
- Why do you think the author chose the title?
- See more strategies at http://www.fortheteachers.org/parent_involvement.htm#.U-oMI450HG4
Math:
- Math Fact Recall (adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing)
- Make sure they're completing their math homework
- See more strategies at http://www.fortheteachers.org/parent_involvement.htm#.U-oMI450HG4
- Shoot basketball and every time they want to shoot ask them a math fact question
- Play catch and with each throw ask them a fact
- Kick the soccer ball back and forth and with each kick ask them a fact
- Bake a cake and with each ingredient added ask them a fact question
- Play the card game war and with each number flipped have them add, subtract, or multiply them
- Make sure they're completing their math homework
- If they need help, ask them to look in their notes first
- If they still struggle assist without giving the answer
- Our main goal is that the process is done correct
- If you are unsure of how to help, send it back to school with your child and the teacher will be happy to help!
- See more strategies at http://www.fortheteachers.org/parent_involvement.htm#.U-oMI450HG4
Social Studies or Science:
- Study 20 minutes nightly
- Ask your child questions off of the study guide provided by the teacher
- Ask your student if they're confused on something and send a note to the teacher
- Check out your teacher's portaportal for free review games to play for each unit
- Read nonfiction books about the topic you're learning about as a child/ parent pair
- Some can study independently by reading it to themselves
- Some can study by talking through what they know to an adult
- Some can study when quizzed aloud
- Some can study by making flash cards and using them (before making them, see if your teacher has a set you can use
- Ask your child questions off of the study guide provided by the teacher
- Ask your student if they're confused on something and send a note to the teacher
- Check out your teacher's portaportal for free review games to play for each unit
- Read nonfiction books about the topic you're learning about as a child/ parent pair
Writing:
This year, fifth graders will not be having an SOL, but we will be having a local test similar to one student's took in 4th grade. However, our focus will still be to write narrative and expository papers that are based off of a given prompt. Here students will build skills to draft an intriguing beginning paragraph, add bigger, better, more colorful words, and figurative language to produce a written paper, all the while, still focusing on correct usage and mechanics.. We will keep these in a portfolio that will go home with your student at the end of their fifth grade year. These skills will continue being put to use as students get older and later have a Writing SOL in 8th grade.
To Help at Home:
- Discuss the meanings of unknown words on the Language of Prompts
- Brainstorm ideas for harder prompts that your student may be uncomfortable with in the Example Prompts
To Help at Home:
- Discuss the meanings of unknown words on the Language of Prompts
- Brainstorm ideas for harder prompts that your student may be uncomfortable with in the Example Prompts
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Spelling:
- See if students can do a blind sort as in you call a word and see if they can get it in the correct sort
- Have students use their read to self books and find new words that match their word study sorts
- Challenge your student to pick five words and then create a short story using these words in a paragraph
- Check out the games on spelling city
- Ask your student to explain why a word fits into a particular group of their sorts
- Ask your student to use the word in a sentence, define it, or illustrate the word
- Give your student an old appropriate magazine and see if they can find their words and cut them out
- Using an old magazine see if your child can cut out letters and use them to build their spelling words and then glue them into their notebook
- See more strategies at http://www.fortheteachers.org/parent_involvement.htm#.U-oMI450HG4
- Have students use their read to self books and find new words that match their word study sorts
- Challenge your student to pick five words and then create a short story using these words in a paragraph
- Check out the games on spelling city
- Ask your student to explain why a word fits into a particular group of their sorts
- Ask your student to use the word in a sentence, define it, or illustrate the word
- Give your student an old appropriate magazine and see if they can find their words and cut them out
- Using an old magazine see if your child can cut out letters and use them to build their spelling words and then glue them into their notebook
- See more strategies at http://www.fortheteachers.org/parent_involvement.htm#.U-oMI450HG4