Testing for Kindergarten: Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Ace the Tests for: Public School Placement, Private School Admissions, Gifted Program Qualification
Karen Quinn has successfully taught hundreds of parents how to prepare their children for testing, and Testing For Kindergarten is her ultimate, comprehensive guide to having fun while teaching to the underlying abilities every test assesses.Whether your child is going to a private kindergarten or a public school, he or she will most likely be
Karen Quinn has successfully taught hundreds of parents how to prepare their children for testing, and Testing For Kindergarten is her ultimate, comprehensive guide to having fun while teaching to the underlying abilities every test assesses.
Whether your child is going to a private kindergarten or a public school, he or she will most likely be tested—and placed in classrooms according to those results. But information about intelligence tests is closely guarded, and it can be difficult to understand what your kids need to know.
As an expert who has successfully taught hundreds of parents how to work with their own children, Karen Quinn has written the ultimate guide to preparing your child for kindergarten testing. The activities she suggests are not about “teaching to the test.” They are about having fun while teaching to the underlying abilities every test assesses.
From the “right” way to have a conversation to natural ways to bring out your child’s inner math geek, Quinn shares the techniques that every parent can do with their kids to give them the best chance to succeed in school and beyond. It’s just good parenting—and better test scores are icing on the cake.
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A good book For parents who want to make sure their little darlings will ace any test they might be given, it is an excellent book and I do recommend it. I disagreed with her on a few points however. She says toddlers who have learned to recognize words aren’t really reading. If recognizing words is not really reading, what is? Also, many schools systems are not into testing as much as New York. It is expensive to do a good job of testing and it simply isn’t taken seriously everywhere
and whether it’s necessary depending on what the schools are like where you live If your child is 4 or younger and you see IQ testing in her future, this book will offer some helpful advice for how to prepare in very gentle, general ways. It also talks about some tests specifically. The book may help you decide whether you even want to bother with all of this stuff, and whether it’s necessary depending on what the schools are like where you live. I think I got this book a little too late- it would have been helpful before the Weschler, which I was woefully naïve about (but…
Beyond the tests-A great base for providing educational structure for young kids I do not live in an area where school is as highly competitive as it is in bigger cities, but still am concerned that my child will be placed in the most advanced class that he is capable of. I have always had a mistrust of entrance tests because of the stories I hear now and again about my former Montessori classmate showed how just being smart alone doesn’t make you prepared for school. This child was touted by those at the school as brilliant but the findings at his first grade placement…