Ready, set, test! We have gathered some of the best test taking resources from the folks who create the actual tests, test-prep experts, and even those who have aced the tests. These resources are great for extra help at home and even for turning those long car rides into a journey down the information superhighway.

By Joseph Harris, Ph.D.

Written by a leading authority on the subject, this book demystifies standardized tests for parents and arms them with the knowledge they need to help their kids score high. Psychologist Joseph Harris explains, in plain English, what standardized testing is all about, clarifying the sometimes puzzling distinctions among assessment, achievement, and aptitude tests. He takes a close look at each of the commonly administered tests, explaining what various test scores mean, how to interpret test results, how to compare results from different tests, and how to use test results to help optimize a child's learning experience. He also provides helpful advice and guidance for parents of gifted and special-needs children.

Published by McGraw-Hill

Test preparation from the Nation's #1 school testing company! Prepares children to do their best on current editions of the five major standardized tests. Activities reinforce test-taking skills through examples, tips, practice and timed exercises. Subjects include reading, math and language. Most titles have over 150 pages. Answer key included.

By Diane Flynn Keith

Your children’s education and future are two of your primary concerns. Combine that with the fact that you spend loads of time in the car with them going from here to there, and your family is perfect to carschooling. Carschooling is all about turning travel time into learning time. Created for kids ages 4 to 17, inside there’s something fun for everyone with games, group activities, suggested resources and audiobooks, journaling ideas, and more. Kids will love the countless road-worthy games. Going for a spin will never be the same!

Published by Princeton Review

Get ready to put some charisma in your conversations, and to dazzle your friends and teachers with dynamic discourse. Bridget, Barnaby, Babette, and fat cat Beauregard are back in a brand new venture as they try to stop the scoundrel aliens Vargas and Gorgas in their crusade to destroy earth. Along the way they’ll have to elude dangerous predators like angry dinosaurs and abominable aliens. While you are enjoying the exciting story and the many exotic places it takes you, you’ll be learning tons of cool vocabulary words with no exertion whatsoever. That’s right. It won’t feel like work at all! You’ll even be a step ahead of the game in preparing for a certain test that’s waiting right around the corner, the SAT (maybe you’ve heard of it already?).

Scholastic

Give young students a head start on math tests with this collection of open-ended math activities. Each activity starts with a simple math-related picture or graphic. Students devise a math problem related to the picture then solve their own problem. This gives them insight into how math problems are formulated and helps teachers assess students’ level of understanding. A great way to build students’ math confidence! For use with Grades K–2.

Scholastic

Get students ready for standardized math tests with this collection of open-ended math activities. Each activity starts with a math-related picture or graphic. Students devise a math problem related to the picture then solve their own problem. This gives them insight into how math problems are formulated and helps teachers assess students’ level of understanding. A great way to build students’ math and test-taking confidence! For use with Grades 3–4.

By Howard Black

This book includes units on figural and verbal descriptions, similarities and differences, sequences, classifications, and analogies. Skills addressed include reading comprehension; describing shapes, things, and words; following directions; antonyms and synonyms; several types of analogy; deductive reasoning; parts of a whole; mapping and directionality; logical connectives; spelling and vocabulary; overlapping classes; pattern folding; tracking, rotation, and reflection; mental manipulation of two-dimensional objects. For grades 2-4, with 326 activities. Also includes reproducibles for single-classroom or home use.

By Bonnie Risby

What a tantalizing treat for young minds! Seven different thinking skills--relationships, analogies, sequences, deduction, inference, pattern decoding, and critical analysis--are presented in a format designed to appeal to the pre-reader. Lollipop Logic employs visual and pictorial clues to introduce and reinforce high-powered thinking. This one-of-kind tool gives wings to pre-readers and non-readers. This unique book introduces complex thinking skills without the fetters of lexical meaning. Lollipop Logic is the perfect instrument for many young learners. It is simple to use and simpler for youngsters to understand. Best of all, it alleviates the encumbrances of reading ability for young minds ready to soar into the stratosphere of thinking skills far beyond their reading levels.

By Laurie Rozakis

With Dr. Rozakis's concrete, experienced advice, middle school students will learn how to get themselves into the "test mind-set." Whether the issue is deciding exactly what they need help on, building up their vocabulary, reviewing their math skills, or writing essays--Get Test Smart! has the answer. In a lucid, yet comprehensive fashion, middle grade students will have all they need to know in one easy go-to source.