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Questions for:
WPPSI-III/ERB, WISC-IV, and Stanford-Binet
Kindergarten 6th Grade Level Questions
Parent Instructions:
Sit next to your child. With 2 and 3 tile designs, build the
design and ask your child to copy (neatly) what you made.
For designs that use 4 or more tiles, show your child the image
on the computer. Say, Can you copy this design? Go as fast
as you can.
Time limit: 30 (easiest designs) to 45 seconds (harder designs)
to 90 or 120 seconds (hardest designs). This is FYI; dont tell
your child, especially when you first start practicing. The
purpose of this is to teach your child to see the designs and
recreate them. With time and practice, they will naturally get
faster.
For K and 1st grade children, start on page 1. For older children,
start on page #. Have your child copy as many designs as he
can.
Encourage your child to line the tiles up neatly. On the test,
neatness counts.
Make up your own designs that your child can copy. Have your
child make up designs that you copy. Sometimes, when you
copy your childs design, make a mistake. See if your child
notices and corrects you. That is good practice as well.

A Note from The Testing Mom:

Parents, even though it says that these patterns are for children
through 6th grade, your childs ability to recreate them will depend on
a number of abilities visual spatial reasoning, fine motor skills,
problem solving and more. Personally, I am way past 6th grade and I
have a hard time copying many of these patterns. My college-age
daughter has a non-verbal learning disability and the more complex
designs in this document are too difficult for her. At the same time,
there is a 6-year-old in my building who can do all of these designs
and is asking for harder ones.
In my experience, kids who love blocks and puzzles do well with
these. Kids who struggle with blocks and puzzles or who avoid them
have a harder time with this task. When working with these tiles, let
your child set the pace. Start with easy patterns and build to the
harder ones. When the designs get too difficult for your child, stop.
Go back and practice with the simpler designs until your child can do
them fairly easily. Children will not be able to recreate the more
complex designs until they can copy the simpler ones.
Children testing for kindergarten or first grade will do well if they can
complete the easier four-piece designs (through page 25). The
harder designs are for older children.

Karen Quinn
The Testing Mom
Karen@testingmom.com

2011 TestingMom.com

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