Preparing for EQAO: Tips for Students and Parents

1. Ensure you have a consistent time and place for completing your homewor.
!. Ensure that your homewor is "eing completed regularly and represents your
"est wor.
#. Engage in reflective practice

$ %eread& revise& edit

$ 'ave ( done what ( was supposed to do)
$ *an ( add any supporting details to clarify my wor)
$ 'ave ( communicated what ( wanted to)
+. Set ,oals
$ This is what ( want to achieve.
$ This is how (-m going to achieve it.
$ This is how ( now (-ve achieved it.

.. %ead with your parents/si"lings/friends0 stop and discuss points of interest&
mae predictions etc.
1. %ead& read& read2 After reading discuss the te3t using the following prompts:
Retell: 4ho& 4hat& 4hen& 4here and 4hy 5remem"er to always re6state the
7uestion in your answer8
$ This is a"out9.
$ ( notice that 9..
$ ( especially lie9..
$This story is a"out 9..
$:irst9.then9.lastly9.
Relate: %elate the story to your own personal connections previous nowledge.
$ ( remem"er9.
$ This reminds me of 9..
$ (t maes me thin of9.
$ That situation is ;ust lie9.
$ This is different from9.
$ That happened to me too& when9..
$( understand how the character felt 9..
Reflect: 4onder& Question& Predict& Analy<e& Synthesi<e& (=:E%=*E
5claim>tc>"8
$ ( wonder if9( wonder why9 ( wonder when9.
$ ( thin that9."ecause9..
$ =ow ( understand that9.
$ ( predict that9"ecause9..

?. 4rite& write& write a wide range of forms22222
$ @etters& notes& posters& advertisements& signs& songs& rhymes& memos&
messages& lists& greeting cards
$ Encourage your child to develop logical arguments to support his/her
opinions
$ Engage in pre6writing strategies. Arainstorm all ideas a"out a topic
"efore writing.

B. *ommunicate your mathematical thining2 5oral& written& pictorial8.
$ 'ow did you get that answer)
$ 4hat process did you follow)
EQAO: The *ategories
Reading
6 Provide supporting details from the story in your response
6 Craw conclusions from the reading 5implicit/e3plicit8
6 Dae inferences 5main idea& authorEs message8
6Summari<e
6 E3plain the elements in a genre of writing 5fiction and non fiction8
6 Fse personal nowledge/e3perience to support responses
6 E3plain the different forms and characteristics of writing 5;ournal&
newspaper article8
6 Fnderstand and e3plain the different organi<ation techni7ues of writing:
inde3& diagrams& glossary& ta"le of contents& su"titles& headings.
Writing
6=ewspaper Articles
6=arratives
6Essay 5informative and persuasive8
6*ause and Effect
6@etters 5"usiness and personal8
6 Procedural 4riting
6 *onventions
Mathematics (all concepts from grade 4, 5 and 6)
6 Area and Perimeter of a %ectangular Prism and a Triangular Prism
6 Surface Area of a %ectangular Prism and a Triangular Prism
6 :ractions& Percent& Cecimals
6 :actors and Dultiples 5@*D& ,*:8
6Prime and *omposite =um"ers
6 %atios and Fnit %ates
6 Pro"a"ility
6 Scatter plot graph
6@ine and "ar graph
6Stem and @eaf ,raph
6 Dedian& Dean& Dode& %ange
6Order of Operations
6 !C Shape 5names& characteristics and creating polygons8
6 #C =ets and shapes 5names and characteristics8
6 Angles 5using a proctor and measure angles up to #1G degrees8
6 Triangles 5right& o"tuse& scalene& and isosceles& acute ect . . 8
6 @ine symmetry and %otational Symmetry
6 Transformational geometry
6 Pro"lem solving 5e3plain your thining8
6 Holume of a rectangular prism and a triangular prism
6Pattering and Alge"ra 5num"er and geometric patterns8
6(nput and Output machines
6*onstructing a shapes with angles
6%egular and (rregular Polygons