1. SAT -10 Parent Night
1st & 2nd Grades

2. What is the SAT-10? The SAT-10 is a not timed
It is a standardized, norm-referenced achievement test used to compare students’ performances with the performance of students in the nation.
Students are tested in Reading Comprehension and Mathematics Problem Solving.
All students take the test in grades K-2.
Test dates are: April 9th & 10th.

3. Student Expectations Students are expected to Try their best
Read on their own (for passages)
Listen and follow appropriate instructions and oral problems as they are dictated by the teacher provided script.

4. Why SAT-10?
• Provides achievement data that can be used to compare local students' performance with the performance of students in the nation
• Reports relative areas of strengths and weaknesses
• Provides data to study changes of performance over time

5. Percentile Rank and Stanine Curve
88-99 Well above average
61-87 Somewhat above average
41-60 Average (50 is the national average)
21-40 Somewhat below average
1-20 Well below average
7, 8, 9 Above average
4, 5, 6 Average
1, 2, 3 Below average

6. Reading Skills to be Tested First Grade
Drawing conclusions
Recognizing details
Identifying compound words
Recognizing suffixes
Identifying words associated with a picture
Understand feelings
Understand the main idea
Making comparisons or contrasts
Understanding reasons
Making inferences/predictions
Understanding sentence meaning
Matching phonemes
Understanding sequence
Recognizing contractions

7. Reading Skills to be Tested Second Grade
Drawing conclusions
Understanding sequence
Making comparisons or contrasts
Identifying poems and rhyming words
Making inferences/predictions
Discern speakers voice
Recognizing details
Determine implicit theme
Understand feelings
Discern reality from make-believe
Understand the main idea
Analyze Author’s purpose
Understanding reasons
Understanding sentence meaning

8. Math Skills to be Tested First Grade
Adding whole numbers
Comparing and ordering numbers
Completing number or shape patterns
Counting
Identifying the best measurement unit
Missing part of a shape
Interpreting tables and graphs
Measuring length (using standard and non-standard units
Recognizing fact families, basic shapes, fractions, ordinal numbers, values of coins, skip counting, telling time, calendar, place value, symmetry, transformations and rotations.

9. Math Skills to be Tested Second Grade
Adding whole numbers
Recognizing arithmetic fact families, basic shapes, equivalent forms of a number, fractional parts, numerals, ordinal numbers, values of coins
Comparing and ordering numbers
Completing number or shape patterns
Counting
Skip counting
Identifying the best measurement unit, a missing part of a shape
Solving number puzzles, oral word problems
Subtracting whole numbers
Interpreting tables and graphs
Telling time Understanding a calendar, math language, number sentence, place value, symmetry, transformations and rotations
Measuring length and length using nonstandard units

10. How are students tested?
Students take the untimed SAT test over the course of two days.
They take the test with their homeroom teacher.
Teachers read the directions and the students read the passage and questions and answers on their own.
The teacher is only allowed to read from the test script twice before moving on for the math portion only.
Each test is done in sections with a red STOP sign at the bottom of the page, indicating that it is the end. Each section begins with a sample question.

11. Reading/Language Arts Sample (1st grade)

12. Reading/Language Arts Sample (2ndgrade)

13. Math Samples (1st grade)

14. Math Samples (2nd grade)

15. Reducing Test Anxiety Tips
Discuss the test openly and in a positive way.
Have realistic expectations of your child’s performance while encouraging his/her best efforts.
Emphasize that the test is only one measure of academic performance.
Emphasize that test scores do not determine a person’s worth.

17. Questions from parents/students Thank you for coming!
Q&A
Questions from parents/students
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