Thursday, March 29, 2012

Reading Boot Camp 5 Song Challenge!

 Reading Boot Camp 5 Song Challenge in Ten Days!

Let’s get ready for the end of term testing with a Mini Reading Boot Camp Challenge!

I am issuing a challenge to all Reading Boot Camp Students!
Can you learn 5-10 songs in ten days?

My students sing daily to build reading fluency and auditory processing (listening) skills. Singing and Learning songs, builds fluency, articulation, voice, memory, expression, word attack, cadence, rhyme, rhythm, tone, pitch, vocabulary, decoding, phonics, and FUN! Students are motivated, empowered, freed from traditional reading lessons, and intrinsically motivated when learning to sing a song. Learning to read is a very unforgiving process for many kids, learning a song gives them a great accomplishment in a very short time. Songs enrich and bring to life a students world in a way that is powerful! My students sing up to 8 times per day during the first few months of school. All you have to do is give students the lyrics and start the song, all else is built into the process.

Song 1

Song 2
song 3
song 4
song 4
song 5
Song 6
Song 7
Song 8
Song 9 and song 10 you decide!

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Testing Vocabulary 3rd , 4th , 5th and 6th Grade

High Frequency Standardized Testing Vocabulary
This is a list of No Excuses Testing Vocabulary for the 3rd , 4th , 5th and 6th Grade. The Testing Vocabulary is the Tier 2 Academic Vocabulary for Reading and ELA Testing, it does not contain the Tier 3 Testing Vocabulary. You will also need to study the Tier 3 Academic Testing Vocabulary for thorough test prep. Students with developing reading skills or second language learners may need extra instruction to gain the full meaning of these words.

TIER 2 ACADEMIC VOCABULARY GLOSSARY
More High Incidence Testing Vocabulary
Tier 3 Academic Vocabulary Words

passage/s, mostly, mainly, different, based, order, paragraph, routine, events, speaker/s, most likely, lesson, suggest, comparison, describe/s, purpose, selection, according, event/s, section, statement/s, main idea, compares, contrast, selection, greatest, description, suggest, considered, organized, reason,  provided, preventing, represent, important details, decides, theme, presented, phrases, turning point, examples, predict/ed, cause, effect, differ, article, summary, diagram, instructions, directions, probably, detail, supports, term, organizes, definition, probably, closely   

High Frequency Standardized Testing Math Vocabulary
correctly, nearest, seems, diagram, combination, labeled, different, describes, relationship, common, represent/s, figure, model, combined, characteristic, according, examples, receive, statement, symbol, compare/s, patterns, section, arranged, display, input, output, value, expression, assigned, decreasing, results, designed, produced, constant, previous

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

STAAR Practice READING Test

The STAAR Practice READING Test listed below are a great tool to help your students prepare for the STAAR test, yet they cannot replace quality instruction or hours of practice. I have listed the TAKS test to help student prepare for the more challenging STAAR assessment. I would suggest students take the test above and below their grade level to prepare for the STAAR test. My students usually take one below and two or three above to practice for the end of year assessment. The old TAKS online test can be found on this blog as well.
     Preparing to take the new STAAR assessment (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) is a fear for many teachers and students with the high-stakes nature of testing. The STAAR assessments will be used for the 12 end-of-course assessments mandated by SB 1031 in 2007 and the new grade 3-8 assessments mandated by HB 3 in the 2009 legislative session starting this year.
    All students preparing to take the STAAR assessment should study the grade specific tier 2 and tier 3 testing vocabulary. Tier 2 academic vocabulary covers academic words that are not domain specific like compare and contrast, and tier 3 words like symbolism in poetry.


GRADE  TEST FORMSANSWER KEYS
32015 Reading2015 Reading  
42015 Reading | 2015 Writing  2015 Reading | 2015 Writing  
52015 Reading | 2015 Science  2015 Reading | 2015 Science  
62015 Reading 2015 Reading  
72015 Reading | 2015 Writing  2015 Reading | 2015 Writing  
82015 Reading | 2015 Science 2015 Social Studies 2015 Reading | 2015 Science | 2015 Social Studies

Links to Tier 2 and 3 Testing Vocabulary

TIER 2 ACADEMIC VOCABULARY GLOSSARY
High Incidence Testing Vocabulary
Tier 3 Academic Vocabulary Words

School Speak Word List
The Tennessee Academic Vocabulary ProjectAcademic Tier 3 Reading Glossary

PDF
Word Academic Tier 3 Mathematics Glossary

PDF
Word Academic Tier 3 Writing Glossary

PDF
WordAcademic Tier 3 English Language Arts Glossary

PDFAcademic Tier 3 History / Social Studies Glossary

PDF
Academic Tier 3 Science Glossary (Glossary at the end of the PDF doc,)

PDF

NWEA Academic Vocabulary
CST and CAHSEE Academic Vocabulary


STAAR RELEASED TEST 2011-2012
Grades 3–8 Assessments





Assessed Curriculum 

Released Test Questions
Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5

Grade 6

Grade 7

Grade 8


Grades 3–5 Spanish Assessments



Assessed Curriculum 

Released Test Questions
Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5


EOC Assessments



Assessed Curriculum

Released Test Questions
English Language Arts

Mathematics

Science

Social Studies




Links to PDF Academic Word List

School Speak Word List
The Tennessee Academic Vocabulary ProjectAcademic Tier 3 Reading Glossary

PDF
Word Academic Tier 3 Mathematics Glossary

PDF
Word Academic Tier 3 Writing Glossary

PDF
WordAcademic Tier 3 English Language Arts Glossary

PDFAcademic Tier 3 History / Social Studies Glossary

PDF
Academic Tier 3 Science Glossary (Glossary at the end of the PDF doc,)

PDF

NWEA Academic Vocabulary
CST and CAHSEE Academic Vocabulary

ONLINE TEST and Archived TAKS Test
THE LINKS BELOW are from web archive. You must click the Impatient? to go to the link! Older test archived on http://web.archive.org


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Answer Keys and Other Documents
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Exit Level


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Released Tests
Answer Keys and Other Documents
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Refer to the 10/10/05 letter to districts regarding the Fall TAKS Exit Level Retests.

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Answer Keys and Other Documents
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Exit Level


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Answer Keys and Other Documents
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Refer to the 08/04/03 letter to districts regarding the 2003 TAKS released test items.

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Answer Keys and Other Documents
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Exit Level


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