Camp Reading Ready STAAR Test Prep Stations Bundle – Printable and Google Slides

Description

STAAR reading review in print and digital. This bundle includes both the printable and Google Slides versions of Camp Reading Ready, with fun, TEKS-aligned review stations for the state reading test.

Are your kids ready for the state reading test? Prepare your kids for their big day with these fun but purposeful review stations! TEKS- and test-aligned to ensure that you maximize your limited review time. These camping themed reading activities are so much fun for kids!

Twelve stations are included, along with answer sheets, keys, and ideas for giving the review a fun camp feel via in-person, hands-on activities AND Google Slides! Best of all, this resource will prepare your kids for the Texas RLA Reading

Materials are included for third, fourth, and fifth grades. The same materials are provided for each grade to include fiction, expository, poetry, literary nonfiction, procedural, drama, and persuasive/argumentative.

Materials are included for third, fourth, and fifth grades. The same materials are provided for each grade to include fiction, expository, poetry, literary nonfiction, drama, persuasive, correspondence, and procedural text.

Included in this resource:

• Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade TEKS/Texas RLA Reading Assessment Alignment
• Ideas for holding your own Camp Reading Ready!
• Ideas for motivating students, plus the materials you’ll need

*Punch cards

*Punch bracelets

*Camp badge collection

12 engaging, hands-on, TEKS-aligned stations to help your kids review for their test while having fun! Practice short constructed response questions, too!

1. Packing for the Trip: Sort text samples, author’s purpose cards, vocabulary words, and questions into the different tested genres. Genres included are fiction, expository, poetry, literary nonfiction, procedural, drama, persuasive, and correspondence.

2. Stackin’ S’mores: Match academic language: words, definitions, and pictures. Answer sheet and key included.

3. Hunting for Tracks: Use context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words. 12 different task cards included, as well as an answer sheet and key.

4. Take in the Scenery: Match the paragraph with the main idea. 10 different paragraphs included, with correct answer choices and 6 incorrect choices, too. A self-check puzzle scene has been included on the back of each pair, but you can also just print the fronts and have students complete the answer document. Key included.

5. Hiking Down the Path: Play a board game and identify character traits, examples, and synonyms.

6. What’s That Noise? Infer the speaker of poems using clues. 8 poems included, as well as an answer key and answer document.

7. Gone Fishin’: Play Go Fish! with text features: words and picture examples. 16 different text features plus definitions. Answer key and answer document included.

8. Pitch the Tent: Build an expository article from cut-up pieces. Students have to match captions with photos, diagrams, and more. Then they sort paragraphs into different headings, and sequence paragraphs in a logical order. Lots of thinking skills needed! Answer key included.

9. Campfire Stories: Sequence events to recreate a fiction story. Answer key included.

10. Creepy Crawlies: Hunt for examples of author’s craft in fiction and poetry. Includes craft such as simile, metaphor, and imagery and more. Fourth and fifth grade differentiated versions include personification, point of view, alliteration, and assonance!

11. The Great Outdoors: Read a drama and identify evidence to support inferences. Hands-on activity. Answer key included!

12. Campfire Safety: Read a fiction story to learn about how to make a campfire and an informational article to learn about forest. Write six short constructed responses about character change, central idea, author’s purpose, message, and more! Short constructed response samples included.

Twelve Google Slides stations are included, along with answer sheets, keys, and ideas for giving the review a fun camp feel! Best of all, this resource has been aligned with the TEKS and includes short constructed response questions!

Materials are included for third, fourth, and fifth grades. The same materials are provided for each grade to include fiction, expository, poetry, literary nonfiction, and procedural. Fourth grade adds drama and fifth grade adds drama and persuasive.

Included in this resource:

• Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade TEKS/Texas RLA Reading Assessment Alignment
• Introduction videos for each activity.
• Ideas for holding your own Camp Reading Ready!
• Ideas for motivating students, plus the materials you’ll need

*Digital badges

*Punch cards

*Punch bracelets

*Camp badge collection

12 engaging, hands-on, TEKS-aligned stations to help your kids review for their test while having fun!

1. Packing for the Trip: Match text samples, author’s purpose cards, vocabulary words, and questions into the different tested genres. Genres included are fiction, informational, poetry, literary nonfiction, procedural, drama, persuasive, and correspondence.

2. Stackin’ S’mores: Match academic language: words, definitions, and pictures.

3. Hunting for Tracks: Use context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words. 12 different task cards on slides are included.

4. Take in the Scenery: Match the paragraph with the main idea. 10 different paragraphs included. Two choices for each paragraph: a right and a wrong choice.

5. Hiking Down the Path: This game is meant to play with a partner. Play a board game and identify synonyms for character traits.

6. What’s That Noise? Infer the speaker of poems using clues. 8 poems included.

7. Gone Fishin’: Play Memory with text features: words and picture examples. 16 different text features plus definitions.

8. Pitch the Tent: Sequence paragraphs to build an informational article. Students match the text features to identify which features support the information in the text. Lots of thinking skills needed!

9. Campfire Stories: Sequence events to recreate a fiction story.

10. Creepy Crawlies: Hunt for examples of author’s craft in fiction and poetry. Includes craft such as simile, metaphor, and imagery and more. Fourth and fifth grade differentiated versions include personification, point of view, alliteration, and assonance!

11. The Great Outdoors: Support inferences with evidence from the drama.

12. Campfire Safety: Write short constructed responses about a fiction piece and an informational piece.

This product, once purchased, is licensed to be used in one classroom. Additional classrooms must purchase additional licenses.

You may also be interested in:

• Camp Write-a-Lot Texas State Writing Test Review
• Reading Genre Sort, TEKS aligned
• A TEK-a-Day Texas State Reading Test Prep & Review

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