1. HOW TO HELP YOUR STUDENT
FOURTH GRADE FSA
HOW TO HELP YOUR STUDENT

2. FSA TESTS IN 4TH GRADE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH – WRITING -2 HOURS – PAPER PENCIL
APRIL (TBA) - READING  - 2 DAYS ON COMPUTER
APRIL (TBA) - MATH – 2 DAYS ON COMPUTER

3. SCORING WRITING AND READING MATH COMBINED END SCORE 1 - 5
WRITING SCORED BETWEEN 0-10 BUT COMBINED WITH READING
ReADING 
MULTIPLE CHOICE AND POSSIBLE SHORT ANSWER RESPONSE TO BE TYPED
STUDENTS WILL BE REQUIRED TO READ AND LISTEN TO A PASSAGE ON THE COMPUTER
MATH
SCORED 1 – 5
ON THE COMPUTER
STUDENTS WILL HAVE A PACKET WITH PAPER IN WHICH THEY CAN WORK ON THE PROBLEMS

4. WRITING PURPOSE/FOCUS EVIDENCE/ELABORATION CONVENTIONS
STUDENT MUST SHOW:
FOCUS ON THE PROMPT 
USE THE INFORMATION THEY READ IN THE PASSAGES
MAINTAIN CLEAR FOCUS ON THE PROMPT
STRONG INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSIONS
TRANSITION WORDS AND PHRASES
MATURE VOCABULARY
STUDENTS MUST SHOW:
EXAMPLES FROM THE STORIES
EVIDENCE USING QUOTATIONS FROM THE STORY
ACADEMIC LANGUAGE
EVIDENCE MUST CLEARLY RELATE AND SUPPORT THE MAIN IDEAS
STUDENTS MUST HAVE
CORRECT SPELLING FOR THE MAJORITY OF WORDS
GRAMMAR MUST BE CORRECT
CORRECT PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALIZATION

5. informative
To teach the reader

6. opinion
To persuade the reader

7. Scoring writing prompts

8. How can I help my student
test-materials/
Ready Writing Workbook
Writing Journal

9. Reading - ela
MAIN IDEA – using INFORMATION FROM THE TEXT/STORY TO  IDENTIFY THE MAIN IDEA OF THE STORY, ARTICLE
CONTEXT CLUES
tHEME
INFERENCING
COMPARE AND CONTRAST
CAUSE AND EFFECT
POETRY
DRAMA
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS/CHRONOLOGICAL
UNDERSTANDING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE
SUMMARIZING

10. Reading resources
Practice FSA Tests :  based-practice-test-materials/
Practice Computer Based FSA TEsts:  families/practice-tests/computer-based-practice-test-answer-keys/
Success Maker (student alpha code all caps) –   7eebd6c&response_type=code
Front Row Reading (check with your classroom teacher for access code)
REading A-Z (found on student's Vportal)

11. math
skills tested
Number sense – rounding, comparing numbers, reading & writing numbers to MILLIONs, subtraction, addition, multiples, factors, prime, composite, multiplication (up to 4 digits), and division
ALGEBRAIC thinking – EQUATIONS AND PROBLEM SOLVING USING VARIABLES
FRACTIONS AND DECIMALS– DECOMPOSE, EQUIVALENT, FRACTIONS GREATER THAN ONE (IMPROPER & MIXED NUMBERS), COMPARING, SUBTRACTING & ADDING WITH THE SAME DENOMINATOR, MULTIPLYING FRACTIONS WITH WHOLE NUMBERS. COMPARING DECIMALS, EQUIVALENT DECIMALS & FRACTIONS, EXPANDED FORM. DECIMALS UP TO HUNDREDTHS.  STUDENTS MUST BE ABLE TO DRAW, MAKE MODELS, WRITE IN WORD FORM AND READ A DECIMAL.
PATTERNS – FOLLOWING AND IDENTIFYING THE RULE OF A PATTERN USING SHAPES OR NUMBERS UP TO 2 STEPS..
MEASUREMENT – cUSTOMARY AND METRIC INCLUDING IDENTIFYING LENGTH, VOLUME, WEIGHT AND TIME.  CONVERSIONS FROM ONE UNIT TO ANOTHER (LARGE UNIT TO SMALL UNIT), ELAPSED TIME (INTERVALS OF TIME), AREA, AND PERIMETER. STUDENTS MUST BE ABLE TO READ LINE PLOTS.
GEOMETRY – TYPE OF ANGLES, TYPES OF LINES, MEASURING WITH A PROTRACTOR, FINDING MISSING ANGLES, TYPES OF TRIANGLES, CONGRUENCY AND SYMMETRY.

12. HOW CAN WE HELP.... Math resources
Practice FSA Tests :  materials/
Practice Computer Based FSA TEsts:  based-practice-test-answer-keys/
Success Maker (student alpha code all caps) –   ype=code
Front Row Math (check with your classroom teacher for access code)
Practice multiplication facts
Long division and multi-digit multiplication

13. Accessing your student's vportal account....
Students can access their vportal account and use reading a-z, office 365, success maker
How to log on
Myvolusiaschools.org
Student
Vportal
Student alpha code with the 1 (example
If you are having trouble search

14. Testing days To prevent this on testing day Follow these guidelines
On testing days....
Make sure
Your child gets a good night's rest
Starts their day with a good breakfast
Your child is on time to school
Testing begins at 8:15
Writing – February 28th
Math – To Be announced
Reading – to be announced
Testing will be sometime after april 10th
2 days math
2 days reading
Follow testing day guidelines and our students will look like this....