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<td width="70%"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Offer praise and encouragement!  Tell your child that you believe he/she can do well and succeed!</span></td>
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<td width="70%"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Insure that your child gets plenty of rest each night before testing.</span></td>
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<td width="53%" align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Feed your child a nourishing breakfast on the mornings of the test.</span></td>
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<td width="70%"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Insure that your child arrives to school on time.</span></td>
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<td width="70%"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Avoid medical and dental appointments on testing days.</span></td>
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<td width="70%"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Insure your child has any necessary supplies for testing such as pencils.</span></td>
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<td width="70%"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Listen to your child's anxieties and concerns.  Reassure him/her and limit your own anxiety about your child's upcoming testing.
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<td colspan="2" width="102%" bgcolor="#436aa6"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #ffffff;font-family: Verdana">Test Taking Strategies to Share with Your Child</span></strong></td>
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<td width="53%" align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Relax and stay calm before and during tests.</span></td>
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<td width="53%" align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Read all directions CAREFULLY.  Reread any directions that are not clear the first time.</span></td>
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<td width="53%" align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Review all answers CAREFULLY.  </span></td>
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<td width="53%" align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Make sure marks are recorded correctly on the answer sheet.</span></td>
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<td width="53%" align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Complete easy questions first; come back to difficult questions.</span></td>
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<td width="53%" align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Budget enough time to answer as many questions as possible.</span></td>
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<td width="53%" align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Eliminate the obvious wrong answers on difficult questions to limit the number of answers left to choose from.</span></td>
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<td width="53%" align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Tackle one question at a time; do not focus on the entire test as a whole.</span></td>
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<td width="53%" align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Recheck answers if time remains.</span></td>
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