Partner with Families to Improve Results on Standardized Tests

Give families practical, evidence-based advice for supporting test preparation at home. This 100+ page Kit helps you engage families to strengthen their students' reading, listening, study skills, confidence and healthy test-day routines.

Use the included materials to help families reduce test anxiety and understand how attendance, attitude, communication and preparation affect a student's experience.

Conduct Family Meetings With Less Effort

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

• Reading Skills for Test Success emphasizes the importance of modeling and talking about reading and how to help students strengthen vocabulary and foster reading comprehension.
• Listening and Following Directions for Test Success gives families strategies for helping children practice active listening, following step-by-step directions and strengthening skills through game play.
• 12 Things Busy Families Can Do to Help Their Children Succeed on Standardized Tests covers topics such as attendance, test anxiety, attitude and communication, just to name a few.

Each workshop includes a Leader's Guide with agendas, discussion strategies, evaluation forms and more. 

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 you can easily promote each meeting through different communication channels.

Reproducible handouts cover vocabulary, test anxiety and test preparation strategies.

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 agendas and seating ideas, discussion strategies and evaluation forms.
• Invitations, newsletter and website articles, news releases, posters, and other publicity materials for each meeting and strategies for reaching hard-to-reach families.
• Reproducible family handouts on vocabulary, test anxiety and test preparation.
• Research references that help staff explain the important role families can play in children's test success.

Reproducible Kit components are provided digitally via an online portal and the printed Kit comes in an organized storage binder for easy reference year after year.

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

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

Kits are available in English and English with a Spanish supplement.

Resource Kit Pricing

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