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By the end of the unit students will use blogging to reflect over their solutions to an ISAT math prompt. Students will practice ISAT-Math prompts to help improve their test scores.

Learning Objectives
Students will be able to write a response to a given ISAT-Math prompt correctly, including drawing illustrations to explain how they got their answers.

Content
Teacher will begin this lesson first by modeling how to do an actual ISAT- Math prompt response. The link that both students and teachers can access is, [|www.isbe.net/assessment/math.htm].

Process
Students follow these following directions to complete the ISAT-Math prompt: 1. My first step was to completely read the ISAT- prompts first.

2. I underlined all of the context clues.

3. I looked around at the Walls That Talk, for clues to help guide me through solving the prompt.

4. I made a visual picture in my head of what the Math steps for the solution should look like.

5. I asked myself what kind of math I should use to find the answer to the math prompt.

6. I next drew a picture to illustrate how I got my answer.

7. Then I added up each item using the totals given.

8. Next I subtracted the amount of money that the boy had to spend, from the total cost of the items.

9. Finally I wrote my answer, and then shared for discussion with my Collaborative team.

Product
Student sample

Formative assessment rubric: Students will use their journals to copy and practice the ISAT-math prompts: Teacher will access students Prior knowledge through having them do a

Credits
I would like to give thanks our Intel teacher Ms. Diana L. Gonzales, and the Intel Teach EC10 staff.

Authors
I am a 2nd grade Elementary teacher at the South Chicago Elementary school. If you wish to make comments, or have questions you can contact me by clicking on the discussion tab at the top. Thank you.