ISTEP+ Info Center:  http://www.doe.state.in.us/istep/welcome.html 
Don't miss "Educator Resources" on the right.

Make Test Review Fun:  http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3746791 
Scholastic offers teachers a variety of ways to inject some non-stress fun into your testing week.

Top Five Ways to Prepare Students for Testing:  http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=11319 
Steps to beating the stress, game show style warm-ups... try these tips to help your students prepare for standardized testing.

NAEP Questions:  http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ITMRLS/ 
Sample NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) questions in math and reading.

Study Skills Checklist:  http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/checklis.html 
A self-guided checklist asks students how much time they spend on various activities,
and how they approach homework and studying.

Study Strategies:  http://www.ucc.vt.edu/lynch/SevenStrategies.htm 
Try this link for a tour through seven successful study strategies, especially useful for improving exam performance.

Tips for Better Test Taking:  http://www.studygs.net/tsttak1.htm 
http://www.studygs.net/tsttak2.htm 
http://www.studygs.net/tsttak3.htm 
http://www.studygs.net/tsttak4.htm 
Study guides to help prepare for all types of test questions.

De-Stressing the Environment:  http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4016 
No matter how much you prepare, some students (and some teachers) are bound to be stressed
during testing week. Find some tips here for de-pressurizing the testing environment.

When Tests Make You Nervous:  http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/test_anxiety.html 
Article for kids about test anxiety.

I Know That: Learning Games:  http://www.iknowthat.com/com  http://www.iknowthat.com/com/SPage?SWF=%2FHomePageOpen%2FGradeGuide%2FGradeGuide%5FGlossary 
I Know That offers numerous online learning games for PreK through 6th grade. A Teacher's Guide to each individual game is included at the 2nd link above. (Registration is requested but can be bypassed.)

Math Frog: http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/main.shtml  Choose your grade, four, five, or six,
and your learning strand to find some learning games, reinforcing math concepts just in time for testing.

Wired Math:  http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/wired_math//english/index.shtml 
Practice math skills with animated online drills. (Grades 7-9)

Grade Level Skills:  www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help.htm 
Help pages for grades K-8.

Test Scores: A Pretty Puzzling Predicament: http://www.buddyproject.org/jfy/kids/articles/tests.asp 
Article for students.

Test Scores: A Piece of the Puzzle: http://www.buddyproject.org/jfy/parents/articles/tests.asp 
Article for parents.

Test Scores: One Piece of the Puzzle:  http://www.buddyproject.org/jfy/teachers/articles/tests.asp 
Article for teachers.

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