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[quote=Anonymous]1. encourage him to express his idea by drawing.  Work sample is important, either from the teacher or the parents.  If he's good at writing, great, but drawing is easier  to express his idea, esp. the complicated ones that get her into AAP.  I've seen girls draw intricate decoration patterns around her writing, boys draw the video game they are designing, etc.

2.  test prep.  There is a march test for 1st grade NNAT.  I joined testingmom.com around Xmas in my son's first grade, $100 lifetime membership (it was Xmas sales down from $150).  Both NNAT and CoGat are computer based test so I just let my son to do testing mom's NNAT test on the desktop or ipad for two months, mostly weekends, around 40 questions per session, all together or broken up into 2 or 4 sittings.  He got it right or get it wrong, we talk about the wrong ones. That's pretty much it.  The test questions tends to be more difficult than the real test, so don't let that scare you.

I heard from others that fee based tutoring also uses testing mom.  I mean, there isn't much to "prep" anyway.  The kid either get it or not.

3.  There are four iReady tests in first grade, that will give you a sense of where your kid is.  My son was 95% and up without me doing anything, so I didn't bother with iReady "prep"ing on testingmom, but I heard some crazy parents do that. [/quote]

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