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HOW TO HELP YOUR  CHILD DO HIS/HER PERSONAL BEST
During the School Year
 
  • Consult with teachers, counselors, and principals immediately  if you or they  have concerns about your child.
  • Know when important tests are scheduled.
  • Encourage your child to complete all homework assignments.
  • Set aside a daily study time.
  • Discuss your child's schoolwork with him/her regularly.
  • Praise your child for good work.
  • Encourage your child to ask questions at home and in class.
  • Convey to your child the importance of a good education.
On the Day of Testing
 
  • Make sure that your child attends school.
  • Get your child's day off to a good start.
  • Encourage your child to do the best work possible.
  • Provide breakfast for your child.
  • Do not cause your child unnecessary stress regarding the test.
  • Do not send your child to school if illness is apparent.
   
Links:
TCAP Practice:  Great middle and high school site for standardized practice
TCAP Practice:  K-7th grade skills
Last Years Scores:  Take a look at how we did...
TCAP What to expect and how to help:  Help your child prepare for the test by using printable or on-line tests.
Tennessee Evaluation and Assement Division:  Information on test dates and contact at the state department
Tennesee Education- Achievement Test : general information, objectives and subskills on this years test.
No Child Left behind  - State standards and practice tests
About Terra Nova-   For teachers, this years time limitations and useful for parents
TCAP Writing Assessment-  Information and helpful hints about the 8th grade assessment.

Test Taking Strategies
 http://www.state.tn.us/education/tsteststrategies.htm
Test Taking Strategies are provided by the Tennessee State Department of
Education to help students, teachers, and parents. Here
are some math and language sites to help prepare for TCAP. Check them
out for some online help as well as plenty of printables.

http://getsmarter.org/iln/index.html
Get Smarter offers a free site that gives K-12 math and science
achievement test practice. It is worth visiting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/revisewise/getset/index.shtml
Do you want a spot to work on activities, take a test and see how you
have improved? This could be the site you need! This site comes
from the BBC, but children in the UK are learning the same things we
are.

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/wordprobsindex.htm
The Math Lab is put together by the Florida Department of Education.
These sites give great practice for grades 3, 4, and 5 in all
areas of math. Just find the section of math you want to address and
print the worksheet!

http://www.learningshortcuts.com/new1ReviewsA.html
The Mental Edge provides TCAP formatted tests to better prepare your
students for grades three through six.

http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/grade7.html
Word problems are always hard for students. Here is some help for Fifth
Grade, Sixth Grade, Seventh Grade, and Eighth Grade.

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/math/math-a.cfm#a5
Check out New York's math page that prepares for their high stakes
testing. There are some great practice sheets to use. You
will choose topic, subtopics, then the actual objective.

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html
Power Proofreading from Houghton Mifflin covers English topics for
grades 2 - 8. You do need Shockwave for this program.

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcompindex.htm
You will really use this site if you spend time searching the reading
section.  It is from the same site as the Math Lab listed
above. There is an incredible amount of information to be found.

http://internet4classrooms.com/TCAP.htm
This site includes links to state sites related to the TCAP and links to sites that provide practice activities for specific
Terra Nova skills.

http://208.183.128.8/terra/nova.html
Jefferson County has put together a very good set of links that help teachers sort out Terra Nova skills and how to address them in the classroom.  Some of them are the same links provided in the Internet4classrooms site but others
are not.

http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/cistandards2001/la/cik3readassess.htm
Perhaps the most important step in correcting reading difficulties in children is identifying those difficulties so that interventions may be developed and administered. To that end, a committee of elementary teachers from across
Tennessee reviewed and reported on more than thirty assessment programs. Those reviews, which are not arranged in any particular order, are contained on this site.

http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/cicurassessedstandards.htm
Tennessee Curriculum Standards that have been aligned with standardized tests and are assessed through eitherTCAP or Gateway.