Students will analyze key details in a text to learn how to get ready to take a test
Print I Taught ThisEstimated Time
20 minutes
Materials Needed
- Test Readiness Basics
- Dear Health Teacher: Am I Ready for Tests? (1 for each student)
- Dear Health Teacher Worksheet (1 for each student)
Student Handouts
Teacher Resources
- Test Readiness Basics
- Dear HealthTeacher: Am I Ready for Tests?
- Dear HealthTeacher Worksheet
- Dear HealthTeacher Worksheet Answers
Standards More about lesson standards
National Health Education Standards
- NHES Standard 1 - Concepts
Common Core Standards
- Common Core--ELA Reading Informational Text:
- RI.2.1
- RI.3.1
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Teaching Steps
As you prepare to teach this lesson, you may find it helpful to review the Teacher Resource called “Test Readiness Basics,” which explains why it’s helpful to learn the benefits of sleep, exercise, breakfast and deep breathing to get ready for a test. You don't have to share this with your students – it’s just background to make teaching the lesson easier for you.
Have you shown your class the Interactive Presentation yet? If not, start there. If you taught the Interactive Presentation on a different day, then remind students of these key concepts:
- Practicing healthy habits can help you do better on standardized tests.
- Your body needs ten to eleven hours of sleep to help you focus, concentrate and be creative.
- Eating breakfast gives your brain the energy it needs to do well on tests.
- A burst of exercise gets your blood flowing and powers up your brain.
- Deep breathing is a good way to feel calm before a test.
In this activity, students will read the “Dear HealthTeacher: Am I Ready for Tests?” article. Following the article, students will respond to questions to demonstrate their comprehension of the key ideas and details in the text.
- Since students will be referring back to the article, you will need to make a copy for each student or a small group of students.
- You may read the article aloud or have students read it silently.
- After reading the article, provide each student with a copy of the worksheet.
- Students will need to refer back to their article to respond to the questions.
Have students share their responses to the worksheet. Using the “Dear HealthTeacher Worksheet Answers,” do a quick review of student responses. Many questions will have several correct responses that will depend on the students’ choices.
If you would like to extend learning to reinforce principles about sleep addressed in this lesson, you may want to use the following HealthTeacher lesson with your students:
