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How to Prepare for the TerraNova Test

Preparing for the TerraNova is crucial to raising your child’s test score. The TerraNova is an achievement test that measures the academic knowledge and skills students have developed in areas such as reading, language, mathematics, science, and social studies. It is not an IQ or cognitive ability test.

Unlike a state assessment, which is generally designed to measure how well students have mastered a particular state’s academic standards, a nationally norm-referenced test such as TerraNova also allows you to compare a student’s performance with that of students in a national norm group. Because curricula and the order in which skills are taught vary among schools and states, students may occasionally encounter a topic or question format that is less familiar.

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Practical Ways to Prepare for the TerraNova

The best preparation is to build strong grade-level academic skills while helping your child become comfortable with standardized-test-style questions.

Reading and Language: Encourage your child to read a variety of fiction and nonfiction at an appropriate level. As you read together, practice identifying the main idea and supporting details, making inferences, determining the meaning of unfamiliar words from context, summarizing, and discussing the author’s purpose. Review age-appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, and sentence structure as well.

Mathematics: Review the math concepts appropriate for your child’s grade. For younger students, this may include addition and subtraction, comparing quantities, place value, measurement, time, money, shapes, and basic problem solving. Older students should practice the number concepts, computation, fractions, decimals, geometry, measurement, data analysis, and algebraic reasoning appropriate for their grade level.

Science and Social Studies: Review grade-appropriate concepts, but don’t focus exclusively on memorizing facts. Give your child practice interpreting maps, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, experiments, and informational passages. TerraNova questions may require students to use information provided in the question to reason toward an answer.

Test-Taking Skills: Make sure your child is comfortable with multiple-choice questions and understands how to read all answer choices carefully before responding. Teach your child to eliminate clearly incorrect choices, then compare the remaining choices to determine the best answer. TestingMom has a library of test-taking skills to help!

Most importantly, encourage your child to read each question carefully, pay attention to exactly what is being asked, and work at a steady pace. Familiarity with the question formats can reduce test-day anxiety and allow your child to focus on demonstrating what they know.

TestingMom’s TerraNova practice materials can help children strengthen grade-level skills while becoming more familiar and confident with the types of questions they may encounter on an achievement test.