Bracken assessment sample questions

The BSRA is designed to assess children�s knowledge of the concepts that parents and preschool and kindergarten teachers traditionally teach children to prepare them for formal education.Your child has probably learned the six basic skills assessed by the BSRA through reading picture books and daily interactions. Any of the products we sell, at the appropriate grade level, integrate this knowledge into thinking skills activities.

If you are concerned about the test itself rest ssured that the test is individually administered, and the concepts are presented orally within the context of complete sentences and visually in a multiple-choice format. Your child will need to have good listening skills but they will not be required to either read or write.

• The LUK Learning System. Young children learn through play. This award winning innovative set of workbooks, with self correcting controller, enable your child to independently build skills. Add some discussion so they've got words to associate with the pictures and you're set.
• Mathematical Reasoning. Most of the knowledge tested for in the BSRA is in the field of mathematics. Differentiating between objects based on size, color and shape is the starting point for geometry. Recognition of numbers and counting is the starting point for arithmetic.
• Can You Find Me? This series poses a selection of logic riddles in different subject areas. The BSRA will be administered to your child orally - the questions will be posed by the tester and your child will indicate their response by selecting the correct picture. Read the riddles in Can You Find Me? to your child to practice attentive listening and correct identification of a picture response.
• Building Thinking Skills. This series teaches core verbal and non-verbal analytical skills. If your child is taking a cognitive test in conjunction with the BSRA this will serve a double purpose.

Many of the products above integrate alphabet knowledge into the activities. We also sell a range of alphabet books. For young children alphabet puzzles, magnetic letters, the ABC song and more can be easier, more effective, ways to learn the alphabet than books. Remember that your child will not be expected to reproduce characters (i.e. write), simply to recognize.