Camp Reading Ready: STAAR Reading Test Prep Stations – Google Slides Version

Description

Digital STAAR reading review with a camping theme. This Google Slides version of Camp Reading Ready gives students fun, TEKS-aligned review stations they can complete on a device.

Are your kids ready for the state reading test? Prepare your kids for their big day with these fun but purposeful review stations! Hands-on TEKS- and test-aligned activities that give kids the practice they need and ensure that you maximize your limited review time for STAAR.

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 materias are provided for each grade to include fiction, expository, poetry, literary nonfiction, drama, persuasive, correspondence, and procedural.

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 resource, 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
• Camp Reading Ready Texas Reading Test Review Stations
• A TEK-a-Day Texas State Reading Test Prep & Review

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