STAAR Reading Test Prep – Sports Theme Review Stations, 3rd-5th Grade

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Fun, purposeful STAAR reading review. Sports-themed review stations help 3rd–5th graders prepare for the STAAR Reading test.

Are your kids ready for the STAAR RLA Reading test? Prepare your kids for their big day with these fun but purposeful review stations – the perfect Texas RLA Reading Test Prep! Each activity is TEKS- and test-aligned to ensure that you maximize your limited review time. Twelve stations are included, along with answer sheets, keys, and ideas for giving the review a fun sports camp feel! Best of all, this resource has been aligned with the TEKS! These sports themed reading activities are so much fun for kids!

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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, argumentative, correspondence, and procedural text.

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⭐ What’s included in this Texas STAAR RLA Reading Test Prep & Review pack?

• Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade TEKS/Texas RLA Reading Assessment Alignment
• Ideas for holding your own STAAR Champions Sports Camp!
• Ideas for motivating students, plus the materials you’ll need
• Punch cards
• Punch bracelets
• Trophy shelf 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. Pack up your gear: Sort baseball themed 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. Defense Definitions: Match academic language: words, definitions, and pictures. Answer sheet and key included in a football theme.

3. Context Clues on the Court: Use context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words. 12 different basketball themed task cards included, as well as an answer sheet and key.

4. Trading Cards: Match the paragraph with the main idea. 10 different paragraphs included, with correct answer choices and 6 incorrect choices, too. A self-check puzzle football trading card 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. The Roster: Match character traits and paragraph examples to build the hockey game roster.

6. Soccer Training: Infer the speaker of poems using clues. 8 poems included, as well as an answer key and answer document.

7. Team Trainer: Play Memory with text features: words and picture examples. 16 different text features plus definitions. Answer key and answer document included.

8. The Rules of the Game: Build an expository article about football 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. Batting Practice: Sequence events to recreate a fiction story about baseball. Answer key included.

10. Around the Track: Play a game by identifying examples of figurative language and filling up your track. 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. Basketball Shoes: Read a drama and identify evidence to support inferences. Hands-on activity. Answer key included!

12. Whack!: Read a fiction story to learn about playing tennis and an informational article about learning tennis during PE. Write six short constructed responses about character change, central idea, author’s purpose, message, and more! Short constructed response samples included.

⭐ Licensing Terms

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

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