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Texas has created new rubrics to grade the Extended Constructed Response (ECR) and Short Constructed Response (SCR) on the RLA STTAR in grades 3-8! This product makes grading easier on YOU, and it allows students to self-reflect in a way they can understand. In the classroom, this product can be used in a variety of ways. The student-friendly language and emojis give kids a better understanding of the demands of an extended constructed response. Students can self-reflect on their own compositio

Combining sentences when revising is a big skill on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade RLA STAAR tests! With the new STAAR 2.0, students are asked to read, revise, edit, and write an ECR. These task cards address 3.11C, 4.11C, and 5.11C - combining sentences when revising. Have your students practice this skill in a fun and engaging way with these Instagram style task cards. This set includes 20 task cards that are worded exactly like the STAAR test. ALL cards practice the skill of choosing the BEST w

With STAAR 2.0, ALL students are asked to answer editing questions as well as complete a grammatically correct ECR! If you're looking for a fun way to review for the EDITING portion of the test, this activity is perfect. This product addresses the major grammar TEKS in grades 3-5 and is formatted exactly like the STAAR test. This product is a low-prep, fun, and engaging way to review. Simply print the cards, stuff eggs, and have students go on an "egg hunt" to review answering editing questi

Testing Signs for standardized testing (STAAR)! This download includes 6 signs for use outside your door during tests. Signs included: Testing - Do Not DisturbWe are FINISHED TestingHelp Needed (Question/Teacher Break)______ Out Of ______ Still Testing No Unapproved TechnolgyTesting Restroom Pass (2 per page)

The Energy Bus for Kids by Jon Gordon is a FANTASTIC book to help students fuel their life and create motivation with a positive vision!! These posters correlate with the 6 Energy Bus Rules in the book and give your studetns a visual reminder of the rules! Display these in your classroom to remind students to ENJOY THE RIDE! :)

Sentence Wars is an easy, low-prep game that makes students think critically while practicing their grammar skills! With the new STAAR 2.0 test, all students will be asked to revise and edit on their RLA test. This game is a fun way to practice sentence writing, grammar skills, and revising. These skills will be applied on the revising portion, editing questions, and the ECR! Download the preview to get a better idea of how it works! Students are divided into teams and draw cards that ask them

Have your students practice for the RLA STAAR in a fun and different way! With the new RLA STAAR test, kids in 3rd, 4th, and 5th will be asked to revise, edit, and complete an ECR! These 20 iPhone shaped task cards allow students to practice their editing skills, so they can ROCK the editing portion of the test. This set of cards covers most of the editing skills that are addressed on STAAR, such as capitalization rules, commas, homophones, spelling, and more! The questions and answer choices

This product is an engaging, interactive, and hands-on approach to the revising questions of STAAR 2.0! On the new STAAR test, students are asked to read, write an ECR, edit, AND revise! Only reviewing the revising section by answering multiple-choice questions is boring and does not make the learning concrete. In this product, students build the passage and manipulate the sentences to make it better. Students will respond to open-ended style questions, move sentences around, select better cent

This resource includes STAAR genre posters (color + B & W) and a sorting activity that is perfect to begin reviewing for STAAR 2.0! The genre posters display the genre, the purpose, and the reader demands as they are analyzing that genre. I included the main genres assessed on 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade STAAR tests: InformationalFictionDramaPoetryArgumentativeLiterary NonFictionThis resource also includes blanks of the posters and the demands listed in a way that can be easily cut apart. Give stud

This skill-specific grammar resource, called Grammar Goal Getters, is a great way to give your students mini quizzes that assess their grammar skills! With grammar, it can sometimes be hard to find resources that completely isolate the intended skill. My resource covers highly-tested editing TEKS on the RLA STAAR, and it allows you do to quick checks on student learning. The quizzes are meant to be SHORT, sweet, and to the point, so you can quickly see student progress! This product is specif

With the RLA STAAR redesign, editing is a large portion of students’ scores! It’s extremely important to practice and review these skills before testing. This resource includes over 75 exit tickets that allow you to informally assess grammar skills. Each question is short, formatted exactly like STAAR, and can be quickly integrated as a warmup, exit ticket, or mini-assessment/quiz. Plus, the tickets print 4-per-page, saving you from paper waste! Download the preview, or check out my freebie wit

It can be difficult to find exit tickets or formative assessments that are short, sweet, and to the point! With revising skills, it’s even harder to find ones that are isolated by a specific skill. Skills assessed with this product: •Transition Words & Phrases (3 exit tickets) •Combining Sentences (3 exit tickets) •Deleting Sentences (2 exit tickets) •Central Idea/Topic Sentences and Conclusions (2 exit tickets) •Supporting Sentences (2 exit tickets) •Revising Sentences (2 exit tickets)

This skill-specific grammar resource, called Grammar Goal Getters, is a great way to give your students mini quizzes that assess their grammar skills! With grammar, it can sometimes be hard to find resources that completely isolate the intended skill. My resource covers highly-tested editing TEKS on the RLA STAAR, and it allows you do to quick checks on student learning. The quizzes are meant to be SHORT, sweet, and to the point, so you can quickly see student progress! This product is specifi

This product allows students to practice their grammar and editing skills in a fun and engaging way while also adding in some Valentine's FUN! Students answer the multiple-choice editing questions to color in the boxes. Once all the boxes are filled in, a winter-themed picture will be revealed. This activity uses ALL skills, so students will need to think about their grammar knowledge to find the mistakes. This activity has THREE different hidden pictures with 12 questions each for a total

Autumn naturally lends itself to figurative language discussions. The cooler weather, fall activities, and changing season provides inspiration for similes, metaphors, and more! This resource is a fun way to get students thinking about figurative language while also creating a pretty display for your classroom or the hall. With this resource, students write their own figurative language sentences relating to autumn on decorative leaves. Have students do as many as you would like, the more they

If you're looking for a non-holiday version of this resource, my Winter Hidden Pictures is the perfect for you! This product allows students to practice their grammar and editing skills in a fun and engaging way while also adding in some Christmas FUN! Students answer the multiple-choice editing questions to color in the boxes. Once all the boxes are filled in, a holiday-themed picture will be revealed. This activity uses ALL skills, so students will need to think about their grammar know

Have your students practice for the 3rd Grade RLA STAAR in a fun and different way! These 20 iPhone-shaped task cards allow students to practice ALL their editing skills. This version was created with 3rd grade TEKS in mind. However, these cards also serve as a great review for 4th and 5th graders! You can find the 4th grade version of this product right here and the 5th grade version here! This set of cards covers most of the editing skills that are addressed in the editing portion of STAAR,

Have your students practice for the RLA STAAR in a fun and different way! With the new RLA STAAR test, kids in 3rd, 4th, and 5th will be asked to revise, edit, and complete an ECR! These 20 iPhone shaped task cards allow students to practice their editing skills, so they can ROCK the editing portion of the test. This set of cards covers most of the editing skills that are addressed on STAAR, such as capitalization rules, commas, homophones, spelling, and more! The questions and answer choices ar

The new STAAR redesign features an Extended Constructed Response (ECR) where students are asked to respond with an informational or opinion composition. I created this PLANNING SHEET GRAPHIC ORGANIZER to guide students as they map out their thoughts before drafting. I have included a copy with words and blanks as well. Hopefully, this helps your kids tackle the new ECR!

STAAR Editing Review Practice 4th GradeOVER 60 STAAR FORMULATED QUESTIONS!! If you teach 4th grade writing, you know how much weight the editing portion carries on Writing STAAR. This section alone accounts for 50% of the student's score!! Since this is such a vital section, I found it really important to review our skills daily leading up to the test. Around the beginning of February (after all grammar skills have been taught), I do one question a day. When we get several weeks away from STAAR