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One full month of STAAR Reading Warm Ups! STAAR Reading PREP with four weeks of daily warm-ups for 5th grade and 6th grade. Released STAAR Reading Materials have been adapted into one month of STAAR prep. I created this to work in small group settings and then realized it's even better for warm ups or bellringers! STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups Includes: ⚫ Focused on STAAR Readiness Standards ⚫ Two to Five questions each day ⚫ Four weeks of spiraling STAAR warm ups ⚫ STAAR stems and scaffolded que

Four full months of STAAR Reading Warm Ups! STAAR Reading PREP with daily quick reads and 2-4 STAAR-aligned questions. Released STAAR Reading Materials have been adapted in a daily warm-up format. Kids will love them! STAAR Reading Daily WarmUps Includes: ⚫ Focus on STAAR Readiness Standards ⚫ 2-4 questions each day ⚫ Four months of spiraling warm-ups ⚫ Fiction, Expository, and Poetry ⚫ Half-page format, easy to print and easy to project ⚫ Answer Key ⚫ Teaching Ideas for STAAR Prep PLEASE PREV

Nonfiction Text Feature Scavenger Hunt [STAAR] is perfect for two days of practice after mini-lesson or for STAAR review in grades 3-4 or for intervention in grades 5-6. There are two scavenger hunts with 8 informational texts. Help them use nonfiction (informational text) text features more effectively. Each of these text feature cards includes a nonfiction text with a variety of text features. Nonfiction Text Features addressed: -Paragraph -Heading -Diagram -Photograph -Caption -Bold Print -Ke

Poetry Task Cards 1. This is our first set of poetry task cards, but we have already heard many students who just love them! They are for 3rd and 4th grade students who need practice with rhyme scheme, poetry genres, sensory language, and making inferences in poetry. Also for alignment with 2018 STAAR poetry and new TEKS! What's in the Poetry Task Cards?12 Task Cards8 Original Poems (Free Verse, Narrative, and Lyrical)18 Multiple-choice QuestionsMultiple-Choice Question Stems:What type of poem i

Character Analysis can be tough for young readers. It requires a reader to understand a character’s thoughts, feelings, and actions based on the setting, the character’s interactions with others, and the changes they undergo. If you are introducing character analysis or looking to deepen reading skills, take a look at these character analysis task cards. Character Analysis Task Cards 1 Includes:10 Multiple-choice Task Cards10 Structured Response and Open-Ended (Same Text) Task CardsATOS Level: 4

STAAR WarmUps for 6th Grade. These reading warm-ups are our third set and are aligned to 2017 STAAR Reading 6th Grade. There are 20 days of warm-ups with poetry, drama, fiction, and expository. They half-page cards with two cards per printable page. Each day is a different STAAR-aligned text with 3-4 questions. STAAR Reading Daily Warm-Ups Includes: ⚫ Focused on STAAR Readiness Standards ⚫ Four weeks of spiraling STAAR warm ups ⚫ STAAR stems and scaffolded questions ⚫ 18 Printable Pages: Two Wa

Context Clues Task Cards Mega Bundle is 86 task cards for vocabulary development, understanding unknown words, using context clues, synonyms, antonyms, figurative language, dictionary entries, and more!!! All multiple choice quick-to-use, no prep, and rigorous texts! Expository, content-area, informational, poetry, and other genres are included to help students better use context clues! Great for STAAR review, small group, and centers. Perfect for challenging 3rd-graders! Just right for practici

These story structure task cards are focused on the elements of fiction: characters, setting, and plot. Students will identify the parts of a story in a multiple-choice format. They are perfect when you want to have interventions for students learning to summarize, cite text evidence, or simply when learning story structure. Grade Levels: 2, 3 Skills and Standards Alignment Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. Describe characters in a story (e.g., their trai

Poetry Task Cards 2 are fun and entertaining task cards for 3rd- and 4th-grades. They focus on elements of poetry, rhyme, stanzas, imagery, and making inferences. You can use them for stations, small-group, projecting whole-group, STAAR prep, or scoot! The are aligned the CCSS, new TEKS, and 2018 STAAR. What's in Poetry Task Cards 2?-12 Task Cards -4 Original Poems -Elements of Poetry (Rhyme, Stanzas, Lines) -Imagery -Making Inferences - Multiple-Choice Question Stems (STAAR): -The description i

The STAAR Reading Review Weekly (Fiction) was made for a third grade classroom to help review and prepare for the upcoming STAAR reading test (3rd Grade). It's a full week of STAAR Fiction prep with daily quick passage and STAAR-style questions, plus scaffolded homework and in-class practice. Did we say perfectly aligned to STAAR stems, informational texts, and new TEKS? Yes! ***** This STAAR Reading Review is designed to target the most essential reading skills in a weekly review format. It is

Main Ideas and Supporting Details for 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades. Informational Texts are fun and engaging with these Main Idea Task Cards that focus on supporting details, paragraph main ideas, and section main ideas. Topics include George Crum, the Michtom toy company, history of Frito-Lays chips, and more. Great for STAAR prep, small group, warm-ups, daily review, stations, or independent practice, these main idea task cards include: 16 Total Main Idea Task Cards 12 Multiple Choice Task Cards 4

Making Inferences. Inferring. Inferencing. Whatever you call it - these STAAR task cards focus on making inferences with character analysis! There are a total of 24 on 12 + 12 STAAR reading task cards with fiction. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Common Core Alignment Cards 1-12 = CCSS.RL.3.1, 4.1, 5.1 Cards 10, 12 = CCSS.RL. 4.8, 5.8 New 2018 TEKS Alignment Cards 1-12 = TEKS 3.6F, 4.6F, 5.6F; 3.8B, 4.8B, 5.8B Cards 13-24 = TEKS 3.7C, 4.7C, 5.7C Reading Levels AT

Area, Perimeter, and Volume Task Cards as the game, Sum Fun: Geometry. 32 area, perimeter, and volume task cards are formatted as a great math review game for test prep and STAAR review. Students will practice the following geometry skills: -Find the volume of a rectangular prism -Solve word problems finding the surface area, perimeter, and volume -Area and perimeter computation -Area and perimeter application problems SEE THE PRODUCT PREVIEW FOR GAME DETAILS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Nonfiction Text Feature Task Cards with Informational Text are perfect for a two-day lesson on text features and how to use them with nonfiction. 12 of the task cards are multiple-choice with graphics, timelines, paragraphs, headings, captions, and more text features for nonfiction. The final 6 task cards are concept review (with word bank) for information text features. The cards are correlated with RI 3.5, 3.7, and 4.7 Common Core Standards and could easily be incorporated into close reading f

Multiple Meaning Words Task Cards. 12 cards with challenging text featuring dictionary entries and multiple-meaning words. Questions require students to engage in determining word meanings, supporting meanings with context, and determining which clues best support the meaning. Questions are aligned with CCSS, TEKS, and STAAR. Use these multiple choice task cards to reinforce common multiple meaning words (homographs and words with multiple meanings). Each of the featured words appears on two ca

This might just be the only set of drawing conclusions task cards you'll ever need! We bundled 9 drawing conclusions task cards sets together and added BONUS cards! They cover fiction, poetry, informational, biographies, science expository, and social studies expository. Whether you're teaching whole-class, reviewing for STAAR reading, meeting with a small group or setting up reading stations, this mega bundle has you covered for weeks...even months of reading practice all focused on drawing c

The STAAR Reading Review Weekly was made for a third grade classroom to help review and prepare for the upcoming STAAR reading test (3rd Grade). It's a full week of STAAR prep and homework/practice perfectly aligned to STAAR stems, informational texts, and new TEKS! You'll notice the expository texts build background knowledge directly related to STAAR 2018. Five short expository texts are included: TelescopesSpace TelescopesBending LightStargazingConstellationsFeatures: Five Texts4 Daily Multip

Making Inferences Task Cards in Literary Nonfiction will help your 5th-, 6th-, and 7th-grade students improve their inferring skills. In these 12 half-page task cards students will make inferences about author's purpose, visualizations, and draw conclusions. These task cards focus on inferencing in a biography about Tomie dePaola! These task cards are perfect for boosting reading skills in 5th and 6th graders as well as 7th-grade intervention or remediation. The Making Inferences Task Cards alig

Haciendo Inferencias - Making Inferences Task Cards 2 (Grades 3-5) is focused on using inferring the author's purpose in fiction, informational, and poetry - all in Spanish! These aren't your basic PIE (persuade, inform, entertain) task cards. Nope, these stems are standards-aligned and STAAR aligned. Of the 24 Question Stems, students will see questions such as: ¿Por qué debería el autor incluir una imagen del hipopótamo junto al cuidador del zoológico?¿Por qué el autor usa signos de exclamació

Context Clues Task Cards Bundle of 36 cards. Questions require students to engage with descriptions, synonyms, using clues, identifying context clues in expository texts. A total of 36 multiple choice questions are great for print and go, literacy centers, group work, test prep, or practice lessons and games! Questions are aligned with CCSS, TEKS, and STAAR. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This task card bundle contains three task card sets for over 10% off! In this bundle are: