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*Updated for the 2025-2026 school year using the most recent test item specs and questions!* Looking for a way to solidify what you have been teaching your students all year long? This resource has been proven to help teachers and students achieve success in the FAST through 3 years of use in public school classrooms like yours! This resource is based on the Test Item Specs and BEST benchmarks. It highlights the various types of questions students can see on the FAST! Includes all benchmarks fou

Looking for ways to improve your students STAR test scores? And set them up for success in 3rd grade? This resource has been proven to help students in preparing for the PM3 FAST assessment. It has been vetted by real teachers and used for three years in the classroom. Includes everything you need to help your students improve their scores and increase their higher order thinking. Includes: Practice Questions from STAR formatFAST Practice Questions to prep for 3rd grade on 2nd grade benchmarksPl

This resource has been proven to help students in preparing for the PM3 FAST assessment. *Used for two years in the classroom.* Includes everything you need as the teacher to help your students prepare for the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking. Includes Daily: Schedule of BenchmarksLesson Plan (4 days of plans, with ability to extend longer)Daily Bell Work (W/Answer Key)Daily Article(s) (With Sources)Daily Graphic Organizer (W/Answer Key)Daily Equivalent Experience (w/Answer Key)Daily Form

*Updated for the 2025-2026 school year with the latest information, test item specs and question types.* Looking for a way to solidify what you have been teaching your students all year long? This resource has been proven to help teachers and students achieve success in the FAST through 3 years of use in public school classrooms like yours! This resource is based on the Test Item Specs and BEST benchmarks. This comes with the answer key. The goal is to familiarize your students with what that te

*Updated for the 2025-2026 school year, using the most recent released test item specs and question types!* Looking for a way to solidify what you have been teaching your students all year long? This resource has been proven to help teachers and students achieve success in the FAST through 3 years of use in public school classrooms like yours! This resource is based on the Test Item Specs and BEST benchmarks. It also includes the following: Daily readers for all genres:including original story

Looking for ways to improve your students FAST test scores? This resource has been proven to help students in preparing for the PM3 FAST assessment. It has been vetted by real teachers and used for two years in the classroom. Includes everything you need to help your students improve their scores and increase their higher order thinking. Includes Daily: Schedule of BenchmarksLesson Plan (4 days of plans)Daily Bell Work (W/Answer Key)Daily Article(s) (With Sources)Daily Graphic Organizer (W/Answ

Looking for ways to improve your students FAST test scores? This resource has been proven to help students in preparing for the PM3 FAST assessment. It has been vetted by real teachers and used for two years in the classroom. Includes everything you need to help your students improve their scores and increase their higher order thinking. Includes Daily: Schedule of BenchmarksLesson Plan (4 days of plans)Daily Bell Work (W/Answer Key)Daily Article(s) (With Sources)Daily Graphic Organizer (W/Answ

THE ULTIMATE BUNDLE for teachers that teach multiple grades, OR for instructional coaches, principals and assistant principals to help those classes in need at their school with achieving more success on the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking. Each Test Prep Book is meant to review all of the ELA B.E.S.T. Benchmarks. -ELA.R.1.1 -ELA.R.1.2 -ELA.R.1.3 -ELA.R.1.4 -ELA.R.2.1 -ELA.R.2.2 -ELA.R.2.3 -ELA.R.2.4 -ELA.R.3.1 -ELA.R.3.2 -ELA.R.3.3 -ELA.V.1.1 -ELA.V.1.2 -ELA.V.1.3 This practice can be d

Looking for a smart solution to the coaching cycle? Where to start, where to end, what next steps to take?This form is easy to fill out and track your steps with your teachers! Simply print and complete!It helps with communication, remembering action plans and steps the teacher needs to continue working on. This nonevaluative form allows you to coach like a pro!

Easy! Print and Go! For small groups, whole group, or independent practice. Simply add a text to the graphic organizer and allow students to read and practice the benchmarks they know! Or, add to the text for the week and teach from the graphic organizer. Includes all benchmarks as well as cross-benchmark questions! Stacking benchmarks for practice in breaking down texts is important for students because it allows them to switch between benchmarks quickly and methodically with minimal support.

The journal and the test prep slides were created to go together. Simply print each student their journal and then use the slides to present in class. Great resource for text prep and preparing for 3rd grade questioning.

MTSS is a support system that helps to identify students that could possibly need more supports or to be tested for a learning disability. This flow chart explains the process that MTSS should take, tips and tricks on how to work through the process and information about each tier and how students should move up or down the tiered support. *GREAT RESOURCE FOR NEW TEACHERS, TEACHERS IN NEED OF MTSS SUPPORT OR TEACHERS MOVING INTO ELEMENTARY GRADES.*

Are you tired? Need a simple solution to the complicated idea of small groups? One that you can purchase and use ALL year? Look no further and join hundreds of other teachers mainstreaming their small groups through the use of reusable graphic organizers! Simply print, tape, laminate, add articles and go! Students can practice what they have already learned in class using graphic organizers and question stems to guide them through an article or short story. Complete with printable graphic org

This packet is meant to be used in conjunction with the FAST ELA Test Prep 5th grade packet. Includes 1 Original Poem Questions for each benchmark listed below: 1. ELA.5.R.1.2 2. ELA.5.R.1.4 3. ELA.5.R.3.1 4. ELA.5.V.1.3

Simply *Print and Teach*! Ran out of ideas to work with Florida Wonders? This resource addresses multiple benchmarks and is B.E.S.T. aligned with F.A.S.T. style questioning! Includes B.E.S.T. Aligned questions and work for:Rosa ParksFrederick DouglassHarriet TubmanB.E.S.T. Benchmarks Addressed:ELA.5.R.2.1- Explain how text structures and/or features contribute to the overall meaning of the text.ELA.5.R.2.2- Explain how relevant details support the central idea(s), implied or explicit.ELA.5.R.2.3

Simply *Print and Teach*! Ran out of ideas to work with Florida Wonders? Tired of the district worksheets? This resource addresses multiple benchmarks and is B.E.S.T. aligned with F.A.S.T. style questioning! Use to teach, reteach, in small group, whole group or independently. Includes B.E.S.T. Aligned questions and work for:A Window into HistoryA Boy, A Horse and A FiddleWhere’s Brownie?B.E.S.T. Benchmarks Addressed:ELA.5.R.1.1- Analyze how setting, events, conflict and characterization contrib

Print and Teach! BEST Aligned, FAST Style Questions! Primary and Secondary sources do not have to be difficult! This resource is designed to help teachers easily show students how to differentiate between the two types of articles. Includes:Primary Vs. Secondary Sources PosterPrimary Vs. Secondary Sources Printable for notebooksPrimary SourceSecondary SourcePrimary Vs. Secondary Source FAST Style Long Response Question Sheet. Primary Vs. Secondary Source FAST Style multiple Choice Question Shee

Help students take ownership of their education by creating *MAGIC* in the classroom. This Literacy Podcast lesson can take anywhere from 1 45 minute class to 1 week. Depending on whether you want your students to read the assignment while they put down talking points or not. Includes:“How to Podcast” PosterPrintable “Talking Points” Project sheetRubric for Grading*Works well in conjunction with Leave a Little Sparkle's Literacy Circle Sheets.

Looking for the perfect print and go end of school year spiral review? Look no further! This resource is perfect for spiral review as it reviews all of the ELA 4th Grade B.E.S.T. benchmarks including a final writing assignment for personal or fictional narratives. Features: 6 weeks of bell work (5 days each)Reviews each of the Florida B.E.S.T. ELA benchmarks:ELA.4.R.1.1ELA.4.R.1.2ELA.4.R.1.3ELA.4.R.1.4ELA.4.R.2.1ELA.4.R.2.2ELA.4.R.2.3ELA.4.R.2.4ELA.4.V.1.2ELA.4.V.1.3ELA.4.C.1.2ELA.4.C.3.1ELA.4.

Florida B.E.S.T. Standard -ELA.5.R.2.4: Track the development of an argument, identifying the specific claim(s), evidence, and reasoning. This resource comes with a built in lesson, poster, text coding tool and modeling practice for teachers to do a read and think aloud with their classes. The CER poster can be hung on the wall or uploaded on devices for students to refer back to. In addition, you can assign the CER form to understand their thinking with any nonfiction text. Although this lesson