Hope everyone else has a Marvelous Monday!!! (Ugh... I just thought about having to cover my room this afternoon! lol.)
SCOOT!
Well, we have our obnoxious lovely state testing beginning tomorrow for my 5th graders. Tuesday is Math and Wednesday is Reading. I wanted to do something fun today that would also be a review, so we are going to be playing SCOOT! This is definitely NOT something I came up with... I found it somewhere on the Internet several years ago and have been using it ever since. Basically, I read aloud an old TAKS passage to my students and we discussed it and did the strategies that we usually do. Then, I put a question at each desk in my class. Each question is numbered from 1-25 and they are in numerical order of course. The students answer the question at their desk and when I say SCOOT! They move to the next question/desk. This is a quite simple review activity and my students love it! I think they just really enjoy the moving around.... :) I know that there are SCOOT! recording sheets out there, but I just have my students use notebook paper... seems silly to waste use copy in that way.
P.S. - I used my TAKS Busters book for this activity. This book has several stories, but each story has about 30-40 questions to go with it and they are sorted by TEK... this made it easy for me to pick questions/TEKS that the students need more review on. (This is what the cover looks like except mine in the 5th grade version. This is the best $40 I've ever spent.)
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I definitely remember the SCOOT! game. My students play it before benchmarks. I usually have them work in pairs though. That way, they can share their thinking.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of this before! What a great idea! I will definitely use this before reading STAAR in April! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteTammy
Confessions of a Fourth Grade Teacher
Hi Sandy:
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like FUN!
I've never seen a "Test Buster" type book before. I wish California had one.
Best of luck on the The Test...
Kim
Finding JOY in 6th Grade