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The Grade 3 ELA OST otherwise known as the AIR Assessment requires students to write an informational essay using at least two text sets and gathering information from those text to formulate a response to the prompt. This product contains: two passages on Astronauts, a prewriting form and a kid friendly rubric that I modeled after the ODE informational rubric. Thank you!!

This literary text set was written using excerpts from the Magic Tree House series. Students need continuous test prep to understand how to answer the complex type AIR questions that they will encounter on the third grade AIR test. Thank you!!

As we all know the stakes are high with the new common core test. In the state of Ohio, third grade students take the AIR Assessment. After careful review of Florida AIR and Ohio Portal Practice Test, I have written a practice informational text set to use with your students.

This Literary Text Set is a great way to practice for the Ohio AIR Assessment for third grade. It is vital to have students practice reading and answering questions that mirror the AIR test that they will be expected to take in order to be promotable to fourth grade.

This Problem of the Day is written with Ohio State Test question stems and practicing a skill that is needed for success on the test. This packet has Monday-Friday practice with main idea/detail type questions and a daily vocabulary question. This should take no more than 10 minutes for students to complete (Daily Warm Up). Thank you!!

The AIR Reading Assessment in third grade requires students to write an opinion essay. So it is vital to teach students how to read a text, form an opinion and write an opinion based on facts from the passage supported by personal opinions. This product includes two selections about cell phones in schools, prewriting form and a rubric. Thank you for purchasing this product.

This literary text set was written using excerpts from the Judy Moody series books - April Fools', Mr. Todd! & Rocky Zang in the Amazing Mr. Magic. As a third grade reading teacher, I have found that it is vital that my students have exposure to the complex type of question stems that they will encounter on the 3rd grade OST (AIR) test. This text set includes: The text set, OST aligned questions (6) & the Answer Key. Thank you!!

This Problem of the Day is written with Ohio State Test question stems and practicing a skill that is needed for success on the test. This packet has Monday-Friday practice with compare/contrast type questions and a daily vocabulary question. This should take no more than 10 minutes for students to complete (Daily Warm Up). Thank you!!

This is a great activity to teach opinion writing through colorful Post Its and an OREO bookmark that gives the students a clear example how to produce a 4-5 paragraph essay. I have also included the text and the rubric needed to teach this lesson. Also I have a picture to show you how I have used the post its.

This literary text set mirrors the AIR test. I used the book series Cam Jansen and wrote questions that are in alignment with AIR question stems. I have included an answer key as well.

This Problem of the Day is written with Ohio State Test question stems and practicing a skill that is needed for success on the test. This packet has Monday-Friday practice with Characterization type questions and a daily vocabulary question. This should take no more than 10 minutes for students to complete (Daily Warm Up). Thank you!!

It is vital that we teach our third grade students how to take a standardized test that includes multiple choice, short answer and extended response. I would recommend giving students 50 minutes to complete the fictional and nonfiction passages.

This is a full length (2.5 hrs) practice Ohio Achievement Test that covers the highly tested standards that have been on previous third grade test. This test will give you a good indication of what your students still need practice on in order to be proficient on the OAA on April 29th. Good Luck!! Thank you.

With the Third Grade OAA right around the corner, it is important to practice all types of genres and question stems with your students. This OAA practice includes 4 POEMS with OAA type question stems. The entire practice is worth 22 points with short answer questions included.

A quick way to gather data to see if your students are mastering the skills needed to be successful on the Ohio Achievement Assessment (OAA). The skills that are included are compare/contrast, context clues, main idea and characterization.

Third grade students need practice on how to successfully take the Ohio Achievement Assessment. This product includes multiple choice, short answer and extended response questions. I have included an informational, fictional and a poem as the text for this third grade assessment.

Hi!! This informational text set practices the type of reading questions that your third grade students will be expected to have mastered for the third grade AIR Assessment. Thank you!!

Third Grade Students in the State of Ohio will be taking the OAA again on April 29th. Therefore, your students need to have weekly practice with the type of questions that they may encounter on the assessment. This OAA practice uses informational text to cover sequencing and central/main idea which is a highly tested indicator. Hope that you find this assessment useful!!

This product contains 15 context clues/vocabulary questions that are aligned to the Ohio State Assessment. Thank you in advance for your purchase.

Third Grade Students in the state of Ohio will be taking the Ohio Achievement Assessment (OAA). Sequencing is a big skill that students need to master in many formats. Practicing various ways will ensure that they are comfortable responding to all types of sequencing type questions. This assessment should be given after you have taught sequencing using my MINI LESSON, STUDENT STATION, and TEACHER STATION. Thank you!!