Name: Texas RLA Reading &amp; Writing Test Prep Camp Bundle
SKU: 12221
Price: 18.92 USD
Availability: InStock

Description

This bundle includes everything you’ll need to review for the STAAR RLA Test! Hands-on, engaging activities help kids practice the reading and writing TEKS that they can expect to see on their test, as well as the short constructed response and extended constructed response questions!

24 stations are included to review reading and writing RLA TEKS as well as teacher guide pages, answer keys, recording sheets, and more!

What’s in the RLA Reading Test Prep Camp?

Twelve stations are included, along with answer sheets, keys, and ideas for giving the review a fun camp feel! Materials are included for third, fourth, and fifth grades.

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.

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What’s in the RLA Writing Test Prep Camp?

Included in this resource…

3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade TEKS/Texas State Writing Test Alignment
Ideas for holding your own Camp Write-a-Lot!
Answer keys and student recording sheets
Ideas for motivating students plus the materials you’ll need
Punch cards
Punch Bracelets
Camp Badge Collection

12 stations to practice writing skills

For each station, the following are included:

Directions on how to set up the station
Materials for the station
Ideas on minimizing copies for several stations
Answer key
Recording sheet

Stations Included:

1. Backpack Brainstorming: Brainstorming central ideas & claims for the Extended Constructed Response- Students read a selection and a prompt and write the central idea/claim and main ideas for their response

2. Don’t Feed the Bears: Reason & evidence match – Students sort detail cards into different topics and main ideas

3. An Orderly Campsite: Identifying topic sentences, supporting details, and closing sentences to build the paragraph – Students organize and rearrange sentences into a logical order to make an extended constructed response

4. Don’t Forget the Map: Students reverse map an argumentative ECR using a graphic organizer.

5. Rapid River Revision: Revise complete compositions – Students revise different compositions by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas. Perfect for practicing for the Short Constructed Response or SCR questions.

6. Transitions on the Trail: Add transitions into a piece – Students use little cards to try out different transitions and choose the ones that best match the paragraph and improve the flow of the piece

7. Gone Fishin’… for Complete Sentences: Sorting complete sentences vs. run-ons, comma splices, and fragments

8. Spelling Under the Stars: Editing for Spelling – Students find 27 spelling errors in a composition that include multisyllabic words, homophones, suffixes, and more

9. Tracking in the Forest: Editing for capitalization & punctuation – Students choose sentence cards and find the errors in each one. Errors include commas, quotation marks, capitalization of proper nouns, etc.

10. S’more Sentences: Building complete sentences with parts of speech – Students use cards with different parts of speech on them and use them to construct complete sentences. Then they change the nouns to pronouns and recreate the sentence.

11. Make a Match: Matching subjects & predicates – Students match plural and singular subjects with proper subject-verb agreement. Then they change the sentences to past-tense to prompt writing past tense verbs.

12. Ghost Stories: Combining sentences – Students build complete sentence of different types – simple, compound, and complex – using puzzle pieces.

Answer keys and response sheets for students are included!