STAARS Reading Tutoring

Are you searching for strategies to teach STAAR Writing revising strategies to your fourth grade students? Here are tangible strategies and resources.

If you're teaching main idea in 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade then you need to try this hands-on sorting activity! This main idea and details sentence sort activity is a great way to get students thinking about HOW details support a main idea. Using a main idea and details graphic organizer, students will sort the sentences and they will use higher-order thinking skills as they justify their answer.

Reading Test Prep Vocabulary for STAAR. Grades 3rd, 4th and 5th. Academic Vocabulary found on Standardized Tests.

Reading passages are so important to practice with your students. Not only for end of year testing, but because they help build stamina. Reading passages are

Getting Un-Stuck: A Test Prep Strategy: Students learn about how negative inner voices can be overcome with small actions.

Reading Test Prep Minilessons

Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade. You will love finding endless passages for any genre, subject, and skill. Find Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Fables, Figurative Language. Perfect for small group, substitute asssignments, test prep and more! Take a peek at all the sets today. #thelittleladybugshop #readingcomprehension #readingpassages

A Look at our ELA Test Prep- perfect for third and fourth grades, as much as we don't like to do test prep!

Are you a Texas teacher curious about the changes to the STAAR reading test this year? The STAAR test has been redesigned to include new question types, cross curricular passages, testing online, and more. Check out this blog post on the STAAR redesign, so you can be ready to prepare your 3rd, 4th, an 5th grade students this year.

STAAR Test Prep Bundle Grades 3-5

We've wrangled some of our favorite Texas teachers to share creative and effective ways they are using Storyworks to help students review and prepare for STAAR tests.

Teach upper elementary students about character traits by having them analyze their characters' feelings, actions, thoughts, and dialogue within the story. This blog post contains everything you need for a complete character traits lesson... for free! The reading passages on the anchor chart, the sentence strip activity, and the interactive notebook foldable are all free!

Author's Purpose PIE'ED Anchor Chart- take author's purpose to the next level for upper elementary students by using the PIE'ED Method!

Cause and Effect Anchor Chart