PSSA Stuff
Reading Meanings
Math
Test Taking Tips
CB's PSSA Madness
100
Grades 3, 4 and5
What grades take the PSSA?
100
Fiction
What type of story is based on imagination rather than facts?
100
Right Triangle
What is triangle with a 90 degree angle?
100
Early
What is the best response: Each night before the test, I should go to bed EARLY or LATE?
100
Beaver
What is Crooked Billet Mascot?
200
Reading and Math
What are the two main subjects tested on the PSSA?
200
Biography
What is the type of story that tells a person's life written by another person?
200
Cube
What is a rectangular solid with six congruent square faces?
200
Read the directions
What is first step you take before you begin the test (after the teacher says "START")?
200
May 1, 1778
What is the official date that the Battle of Crooked Billet was fought on?
300
Pennsylvania
In what state is the PSSA administered (or given)?
300
Conflict
What is a struggle or clash between characters, emotions or forces?
300
Line segment
What is a part of a line with two (2) end points?
300
Number 2 pencil
What is the only type of pencil a student can use on the PSSA?
400
Writing
What is the extra PSSA test that all 5th graders in Pennsylvania must take?
400
Personification
An object or abstract idea that is given human qualities or human force.... (For example: "flowers dances about the lawn")
400
Perpendicular lines
What are two lines, segments or rays that intersect (or cross) to form right angles?
400
Look backs
What is the strategy which encourages kids to return to the text to find answers or more information?
400
The Hatter
What is mascot of the Hatboro-Horsham School District?
500
Pennsylvania System of School Assessment
What does the abbreviation PSSA stand for?
500
Venn Diagram
What is made up of two or more overlapping circles and used to compare and contrast things that are similar or different?
500
Rotation
What is a movement of a figure that turns that figure around a fixed point?
500
Eat a healthy breakfast
What is the most important thing you should do that morning that provides ENERGY to prepare for kids for the PSSA test in school?
500
Superintendent Griffin (Mr. Griffin)
What is the name of our school district's Superintendent?