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For Students: Student Practice and Training Tests

For Teachers: WCAP Testing Portal

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Smarter Balanced Skills Needed for all students:

  1. Mouse Skills
  2. Navigation
  3. Drag and Drop
  4. Keyboarding

First  and Second Grade Tech Skills

Mouse Practice-

Magical Capitals-grammar and capitalization

Keyboarding Practice

KeySeeker- typing program for primary kids

 Keyboard Climber-typing program for primary kids

Navigation Skills

Dinosaurs– nonfiction ebook

3rd, 4th and 5th grade Tech Skills

Skillful Senior: Teaches mouse skills, arrow skills, drag and drop and keyboarding skills.

Mouse Practice-Drag and Drop

Mouse Tutorial

Math Maven Mysteries – solve the mysteries using logic and number sense

Highlighting Text students will  listen to the directions and practice highlighting text.

Grade 3 Proofreading Makes Perfect – correct grammar, spelling and puncutation Students will need to practice highlighting text, and placing cursor in specific locations in the text.

Word Mover from ReadWriteThink “magnetic” poetry type activities

Drag n Drop Math from Mr. Nussbaum

Multiplication Game from Helping with Math (contains links to many other math games)

Grade 4 Proofreading Makes Perfect – correct grammar, spelling and puncutation.  Students will need to practice highlighting text, and placing cursor in specific locations in the text.

Mouse Clicking Skills – timed activities to click on objects

Spelling Bees students practice their speed and accuracy of using the mouse.

 

Keyboarding-

Dance Mat Typing to practice typing skills, choose your level.

Typing Club  follow sequential format for improving a variety of typing skills.

Math Quiz to improve their multiplication fluency while practicing using the number key pad.

 

Navigation

Writing into fields-

The Friendly Letter Creator students will practice typing into fields. Esperanza Rising will allow students to respond to prompts by typing into fields.

Study Jams – Play a video, use navigation tools, and learn!

Story Starters students will use a variety of navigation skills including locating hotspots, toggling to advance to next screen and typing into fields to create a story.