SSAT Lesson Plans

Week 1

• GENERAL

  • • • Examine a full test with the "I see" activity 

      • "Level It" activity and related strategies

• VERBAL

  • • • Synonyms

      • Analogies

Week 2

• MATH

  • • • • • Content vs. Strategy Chart for ratios and probability

          • Content vs. Strategy for geometry and percent

• READING COMPREHENSION

  • • • • • Establish a baseline with Practice Set #1

          • Reading Comprehension Strategies

Week 3

• GENERAL

  • • • Anticipate, Practice, Review 

      • Sentence Completion Strategies

      • Reading Comprehension Strategies

• MATH

  • • • Learn key vocabulary

      • Content vs. Strategy for logic problems 

Week 4

• GENERAL

  • • • Anticipate, Practice, Review

• VERBAL

  • • • Sentence Completions - review HW and add strategies

      • Prefix & Root Practice and game 

• MATH

  • • • "End point" word problems

      • Probability (review multiple events)

      • Slope of a line in y = mx + b

      • Surface area vs. volume

Week 5

• GENERAL

  • • • Survey

• MATH

  • • • Percent change

      • Codes

      • Averages 

      • Quizzes for these types of questions! 

• READING

  • • • Reading Comp practice on Reading Passage #3

Week 6

• MATH

  • • • Fraction, Decimal, and Negative Number Practice (separate worksheet)

      • Quantitative Comparison Practice (#1-15 in QC tab)

• VERBAL

  • • • Sentence Completion Drills (2 points for correct, 1 point for writing in word or +/-/N + 2 crossed out)

Week 7

• GENERAL

  • • • Timing and Pacing practice

• MATH

  • • • Label levels and do Level 1 first

• ESSAY

  • • • LINK

• READING

  • • • Timed section

Week 8

• Review Test 3 with teaching lessons by students

Extra Support

• Vocabulary building

• Learn to cross off answers as a way to earn points