The language you hear around testing sounds like a game of Scrabble – OLSAT®, CogAT®, BSRA™, GATE Testing, ERB, WPPSI®-III or IV, WISC®-IV, WNV™, Stanford-Binet® 4® or 5®, NNAT®-2, Naglieri®, KBIT™-2, Raven’s Matrices™, RIAS®, TAG testing, MAP® Testing, Woodcock-Johnson® III Tests of Achievement, G&T programs, the list of acronyms goes on and on! If you have a preschooler who will be assessed in the future for gifted and talented or private school admissions, you’ll want to be sure that he has all the skills needed for kindergarten and testing readiness. Even if you plan to send your child to a local kindergarten that doesn’t require testing or if you plan to homeschool him, he will still need to master all of the skills covered in this guide to do well in school. For preschoolers, it is best to focus on skillbuilding through play and everyday life interactions.The secret to helping your preschooler build the skills needed for testing and school is to keep your interactions fun and playful! We recommend that you devote a segment of time in each day to work on one particular skill that you read about in this guide. You can do practice questions together or you can try one of the games suggested as an “Everyday life” activity. Spend 20-30 minutes each day doing this and you will be amazed at how much your child’s knowledge and abilities will expand!
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