The Teacher Essentials

Are you looking for a daily review of Reading and ELA essential skills that will help develop mastery? I was looking for the same thing, so I wrote my own. I personally use these warmups every day to begin class and I have seen a ton of growth with my students. There are 120 days of warmups that provide a daily, spiral review of skills that help students achieve mastery. The skills included cover many of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade ELAR TEKS and build upon one another. Skills covered -alphabe

This resource contains all 5 assessments for Unit 3.1 Pearson, My View. These selections are: *Grandma and the Great Gourd *Why the Sky is Faraway *Cocoliso *Living in Deserts *The Golden Flower

Are you looking for a way to assess Grandma and the Great Gourd? This resource has 15 comprehension questions that could be used to check for understanding or as an assessment. These questions are based on the new 3rd grade ELAR TEKS and has several questions that are formatted after the STAAR 2.0 question types. The question types include: *multiple choice *select multiple answer choices *multiple part questions *constructed responses Grandma and the Great Gourd is a great book to read to cove

This is a bundle of comprehension assessments for all selections found in Pearson My View unit 3.2. Selections include *Patterns in Nature *Weird Friends: Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdom *Wolf Island *Welcome Back, Wolves!/Wolves Don't Belong in Yellowstone *Nature's Patchwork Quilt

This resource uses the folktale, Why The Sky Is Far Away, to practice and assess comprehension skills. I have incorporated several questions that mimic the STARR 2.0 new test question types. This resource can be printed easily to use as either practice or a test. This is a 15 question assessment. Why The Sky is Far Away, retold by Mary-Joan Gerson can be found in most libraries, read aloud on YouTube, as well as in the Pearson My View unit 3.1. This resource is also a part of a bundle of activit

This resource is a comprehension assessment for the text Living in Deserts by Tea Benduhn. This assessment contains practice with the new question types found on the 3rd grade ELAR STAAR 2.0. Living in Deserts by Tea Benduhn is an informational text. It can be used as a stand alone read aloud or found in the Pearson My View text unit 3.1

Do your students need practice with revising and combining sentences? Are you trying to find something that will help prepare them for the STAAR test? This resource would help with both of those things. These activities would work as whole group, small group, and assessments. This resource can be shown as a power point or printed to use as worksheets. In this resource you will get 10 practice pages to help with combining and revising sentences. There are both multiple choice and open-ended quest

All About Matter is a complete unit that covers the basic concepts of matter. This unit includes reading material, questions, observation labs, experiments, and a test. I use this mainly with third grade, but it could be used in 2nd, 4th, and 5th as well. Concepts included are: -What is Matter? -What are Physical Properties of Matter? -Observation Lab: Exploring Physical Properties -What are the Three States of Matter? -Observation Lab: Water on the Move -What are Physical Changes in Matter? -E

This resource is a 10-question assessment for Welcome Back Wolves/Wolves Don't Belong in Yellowstone in unit 3.2 of Pearson My View. The text is a paired passage and persuasive text. This assessment contains questions modeled after the new question types for STAAR 2.0. It's a great way to help your student become familiar with the different types of questions.

This resource is a 10-question assessment for the text Weird Friends: Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdom by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. This selection can be used as a read aloud or found in the third grade My View by Pearson textbook. This assessment is formatted after the new STAAR question types. It would be great practice to expose your students to these types of questions. This assessment has multiple choice, hot text (printed), multiple part, short constructed responses, and extended

This bundle includes: **Why the Sky is Far Away Comprehension - a 15 question assessment with answer key **Why the Sky is Far Away Story Elements **Why the Sky is Far Away Vocabulary practice **Why the Sky is Far Away Writing activity

This resource is a comprehension assessment for the story The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico retold by Nina Jaffe. This assessment contains question types that are formatted after the STAAR 2.0 redeign. It is a great way to give students practice with these new question types. The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico can be found in the Pearson My View 3.1 reading series or as a stand alone book.

This resource is a comprehension assessment for the selection Patterns in Nature by Jennifer Rozines Roy and Gregory Roy that can be found in the Pearson My View third grade series.

This resource is a ten question comprehension assessment for the selection titled, Nature's Patchwork Quilt, by Mary Miche. This selection can be found in unit 3.2 of Pearson My View. The questions are based on the new ELAR TEKS and STAAR 2.0 question types. It is a good way to give your students exposure to these new question formats.

This resource is perfect for introducing your students to the genre of poetry. It contains notes for teaching, practice/test prep pages, and writing assignments. This resource can be used as a Power Point presentation or printed as handouts. With this resource you will receive: *note pages-teacher notes and pages for students to complete *5 poems with questions pages and answer keys (great for test prep or just practice) *5 pages of writing assignments

This resource is a 10 question assessment for the story Wolf Island by Celia Godkin. This selection can be found in Unit 3.2 of Pearson My View or can be used as a single read aloud. The assessment contains questions that give students practice with the new question types for STAAR redesign such as, constructed responses, hot text (printed), multiple selection, multiple part, and multiple choice.

Do your students need extra practice writing compound sentences? This resource contains 2 practice pages with 10 sentences each. This would be a good resource for whole group modeling, small group or assessments. Answers keys are included.

This bundle includes: Grandma and the Great Gourd Comprehension Assessment Grandma and the Great Gourd Vocabulary Practice Grandma and the Great Gourd Story Elements Grandma and the Great Gourd Write Your Own Folktale

This resource is a comprehension assessment for the story Cocoliso. It contains questions that are formatted after the new STAAR 2.0 redesign. Cocoliso by Andres Pi Andreu is a realistic fiction story that students enjoy reading. The story itself can be found in the Pearson My View, book 3.1 or as a stand alone read aloud.

Why The Sky Is Far Away is a fun myth to teach story elements. The story can be read alone or can be found in Pearson My View, unit 3.1. This resource includes a one page handout helping students identify setting, characters, problem/solution and theme. It also has a section allowing students to practice summarizing by retelling the beginning, middle, and end of the story.