Forward Exam Preparation - About a month before the Forward Exam, I like to focus my guidance lessons on preparing students for the Forward Exam and providing them with test-taking strategies. The lessons I use for fifth and sixth grade students are very similar and both emphasize how important it is to have a growth mindset.
In this lesson students are asked to first complete a series of puzzles. In the series of puzzles I included a dot-to-dot, a word search, and a maze. I then use these puzzles as a comparison for the Forward Exam and we discuss how important it is to challenge your brain.