In the efforts of Continuous Improvement, I am trying to organize resources on a new website. Here is the LINK. I am hoping that it will be easier to navigate, and I've also added in a "subscribe" feature so you can sign up for email updates, if you want. There is a STAAR Redesign page on there where I am adding on my analysis and resources from the spring STAAR/EOC administration. ~TM

Hello, STAAR friends!

After using the SCR writing guide to help "anchor" students in the rubric of the new response items for Reading, I decided that a "revise & reflect" guide was needed to guide them through applying the rubric to their own writing. It is in the SCR folder in all the resources, but I added a button to directly access it below. If you want a copy to revise for yourself, please "make a copy" in Google and change for your needs. Hang in there, RLA friends. Our students will be ready. ~TM

The generosity of educators never ceases to amaze me. Caroline Sweet translated the elementary rubrics into Spanish for our dual-language teachers and shared with us on Twitter! Thank you, Caroline!

So, I took the Extended Response Rubrics and used the specific bullet points in both sections to create guided questions. Organization & Ideas is where the students REVISE and the Conventions is where they EDIT. I made a "guide" for them to go through their response and revise & edit it for the rubric score points.

It's in my rubrics folder, but here is the direct LINK.

The short-constructed responses vary by content area, but they all have item-specific rubrics. This means that the test designers have created a rubric for the correct answer specifically for that question. These rubrics will be shared with the public when the tests are released.

3rd-4th grade

5th grade

6th grade

7th grade

8th grade

Biology, US History, English 1 & 2

In your Google Drive, go to FILE and MAKE A COPY to get your own copy of the slides. Delete the slides that don't pertain to your students.

Online practice samplers by question type WITH links to the answer keys (with rationales).

New Question Type Slides for Teachers: Elementary

New Question Type Slides for Teachers: Secondary

Here are the new question types broken down into content area for content area teachers. Question stems, low-tech classroom options, and academic discourse prompts are included for each.

MATH New Question Types

RLA New Question Types

SCIENCE New Question Types

SOCIAL STUDIES New Question Types

As I support teachers, I am focused on the academic vocabulary and our precision/clarity when using terms with student writers. Here is a folder of revision vocabulary things that I am working on for STAAR review for our RLA teachers.

FOLDER LINK

Composition Conversations Group Revising Lesson

I have been working with 3rd-8th RLA teachers on the revising questions of the new RLA STAAR.

Here is my elementary folder: LINK.

Here is my middle school folder: LINK.

Here is my high school folder. LINK.

This is an interactive training with cards and sorting. The focus of the training is how the revising & drafting TEKS are assessed...using the language of the TEKS and the resources from the Texas Gateway TEKS Guide. Teaching students the five specific things that they will "revise" for by having them revise for those same five things in their own writing will set them up for success.

I am now working on 3rd - 8th trainings for teachers specific to the editing questions on the new RLA STAAR.

K-5th Punctuation & Capitalization Vertical Alignment

3rd-5th Writing Sample Questions: Editing Analyzed

K-12 Editing TEKS: Vertical View

Types of Spelling Questions

Edit Triangle

(print on cardstock, laminate, and then have students use it as a guide as they go through their own writing for each "side" of the triangle)

Clocking Page

Punctuation Clothespins

TEA has a website with background information, videos, and resources related to the STAAR redesign.

LINK TO STAAR REDESIGN SITE

TEA also has an overview page for all the assessment changes that were called for in HB3906.

LINK TO HB3906 SITE

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