Help Students Feel Ready for Standardized Tests

Give families practical, evidence-based advice to support test preparation at home. This 100+ page Kit helps families strengthen reading, listening, study skills, confidence and healthy test-day routines.

The materials also help families reduce test anxiety and understand how attendance, attitude, communication and preparation affect a student's experience.

Lead and Promote Meetings With Less Effort

Use the ready-to-show videos for three flexible, interactive workshops:

• Reading Skills for Test Success emphasizes the importance of being a reading role model, helping students with book choices and reading comprehension.
• Listening and Following Directions for Test Success gives families strategies for helping children with active listening, following step by step directions and using games to improve skills.
• 12 Things Busy Families Can Do to Help Their Children Succeed on Standardized Tests teaches topics such as attendance, test anxiety, attitude and communication, just to name a few.

Each workshop includes a Leader's Guide with seating suggestions, discussion strategies, evaluation forms, and support for meetings with Spanish-speaking families.

Staff can show the narrated videos or present the customizable PowerPoint slides themselves. Publicity materials, invitations, newsletter and website articles, news releases and posters are also included so schools can easily promote each meeting through different communication channels.

Reproducible handouts cover vocabulary, test anxiety and steps for the night before and morning of a test. Research references help staff explain the important role of families.

Reinforce the Message at Home

The Kit also includes 50 take-home copies of the 16-page booklet, Questions and Answers About Standardized Tests.

Families leave with simple actions they can use before, during and after testing to review the guidance when they need it.

What You Get

The Kit includes:

• Three professionally narrated videos: Reading Skills for Test Success; Listening and Following Directions for Test Success; and 12 Things Busy Families Can Do to Help Their Children Succeed on Standardized Tests.
• Three customizable PowerPoint presentations that school staff can narrate.
• A Leader's Guide for each workshop with seating ideas, discussion strategies, evaluation forms and support for meetings with Spanish-speaking families.
• Invitations, newsletter and website articles, news releases, posters, and other publicity materials for each meeting.
• Reproducible family handouts on vocabulary, test anxiety, and steps for the night before and morning of a test.
• Research references that help staff explain the important role of families.

Plus, you'll receive supplemental printed brochures to distribute to your families: 

• 50 copies of the 16-page Booklet, Questions and Answers About Standardized Tests

Materials are available in English and with a Spanish supplement.

Resource Kit Pricing

For quantities not listed, please email customer service at customer@parent-institute.com.