Rise & Shine Staar Prep Reading Comprehension Grade 5


Book Description

100% Aligned with STAAR Standards for Reading Comprehension! These books are designed to prepare your students for the Reading portion of the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR). Many states measure achievement in reading by assessing student progress on benchmark objectives identified in their state standards. The state of Texas is one of those states. This book provides teachers with a variety of reading passages and questions that help assess student knowledge of reading standards tested on the STAAR. This practice book provides reading passages that consist of narrative text, expository text, and mixed passages. Expository passages include informative, biographical, autobiographical, and how-to selections. Mixed passages put two different kinds of writing together in one selection. Questions follow each passage. Each question is designed to assess a specific STAAR standard. Teacher Editions contain an answer key which tells you the type of passage, higher level vocabulary found in each passage, each standard tested along with its correct answer, and a list of possible extension activities. Teacher Editions also include a bibliography and a reading benchmark standards matrix showing which passage assesses which standards. Each of these workbooks provides hours of on-grade-level reading comprehension practice. Passages range in readability to allow for differentiated instruction. The grades 3-8 Reading Comprehension titles are great test preparation tools. These books are also great for home schooling!




Daily Warm-Ups: Reading, Grade 2


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Quick, easy, effective activities support standards and help students improve skills they need for success in testing.




Getting Ready for the 4th Grade Assessment Tests


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Getting Ready for the 4th Grade Assessment Test: Help Improve Your Child’s Math and English Skills – Many parents are expressing a demand for books that will help their children succeed and excel on the fourth grade assessment tests in math and English –especially in areas where children have limited access to computers. This book will help students practice basic math concepts, i.e., number sense and applications as well as more difficult math, such as patterns, functions, and algebra. English skills will include practice in reading comprehension, writing, and vocabulary. Rubrics are included for self-evaluation.




Silk Umbrellas


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"A sensitive portrayal of a family in Thailand. . . . This gracefully told story will resonate with many young readers." — Booklist (starred review) Eleven-year-old Noi is learning to paint like her grandmother. She and her older sister, Ting, spend many rapt hours in the jungle watching as Kun Ya paints delicate silk umbrellas to sell at the market. But one day Kun Ma and Kun Pa announce that Ting must start working at a local radio factory to help support the family. As the days and weeks pass, Noi anxiously sees her own fate reflected in her sister’s constricting world. Can Noi find a way to master her fear of failure and stand up for her gift — and Kun Ya’s tradition — before the future masters her?




24 Nonfiction Passages for Test Practice


Book Description

Boost your students' reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills using all kinds of high-interest nonfiction sources. From how-to guides and letters to news stories and advertisements, these ready-to-reproduce passages and companion questions will give your students the practice they need to understand the information they see and read every day -- and succeed on standardized tests! Book jacket.




Sketches from a Spy Tree


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Narrator Anne Marie paints pictures of family life from grief to hope after her father abandons his "four girls"--Anne Marie and her mother and twin and baby sisters. Anne Marie's story is written as a series of linked poems with illustrations.




Proofreading, Revising & Editing Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day


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"In this eBook, you'll learn the principles of grammar and how to manipulate your words until they're just right. Strengthen your revising and editing skills and become a clear and consistent writer." --




Nurse as Educator


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Designed to teach nurses about the development, motivational, and sociocultural differences that affect teaching and learning, this text combines theoretical and pragmatic content in a balanced, complete style. --from publisher description.




Rise and Shine STAAR Prep Grade 5 Science


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The fully aligned Rise & Shine STAAR Prep Science workbooks - now available for grade 5 and 8 - provide students with hours of practice in all areas covered by the Texas Standards. Our STAAR Science titles are 100% aligned with STAAR standards for science. Each workbook is directly aligned to the STAAR objectives. The questions match the format that students can expect to see on STAAR exams. Hundreds of practice questions ensure that students are familiar with the STAAR science exam format before walking into the test. Many questions involve graphic representations, an important part of the STAAR exam. Teacher editions include extensive test-specific introductory guides and show correct and suggested answers for each of the questions asked, as well as targeted skill for those questions. Our science workbooks are the most effective test preparation available today.Great for home schooling as well!




Reading Comprehension


Book Description

Give students the targeted, skill-building practice they need with these standards-based books! Each workbook includes more than 40 ready-to-reproduce practice pages. Easy-to-follow directions and fun exercises motivate students to work on their own. Every activity in each book is correlated to state standards. For use with Grade 4.