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□ Readingwarmupsandmore.com is your home for Texas STAAR and TEKS reading practice materials and is also the home for reading products for use by other states and countries around the world. □
We are currently updating our website to reflect the new STAAR assessments.
THE RESOURCES PROVIDED THROUGH OUR PRODUCTS PROVIDE MATERIALS TO HELP FAMILIARIZE EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS WITH THE STAAR ASSESSMENTS. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY HAS NOT RELEASED PASSAGE AND QUESTION FORMAT INFORMATION REGARDING ALL OF THE TESTED STANDARDS. THE STAAR ASSESSMENTS WILL ALSO BE CONTINUALLY REVISED AND UPDATED BY THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY. THE STAAR PRODUCTS AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS COMPANY WILL STRIVE TO PROVIDE ACCURATE AND UP-TO-DATE STAAR CONTENT. DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE EVER-CHANGING STAAR ASSESSMENTS, OUR PRODUCTS MAY NOT COMPLETELY MATCH THE STAAR WITH REGARD TO QUESTION STYLE, FORMAT, AND WORDING. WE WILL ATTEMPT TO MAKE CHANGES TO REFLECT THE MOST CURRENT STAAR ASSESSMENTS INFORMATION AS QUICKLY AS WE ARE ABLE. Thank you.
Our products are available in a Hard Copy or a Compact Disk (CD) version. The hard copy is on 24 lb. 96 bright white paper and bound in a 3 ring binder. The CD version is on a CD in pdf format. Each type of license purchased will receive one copy per product and the purchaser will be licensed to reproduce any and all pages for the number of students granted in the license. Please refer to the licensing information near the bottom of this page below or click on the "Licensing" link to the left for additional information about licensing.
New STAAR Products now available!!!!!!
Reading Warm-ups - STAAR - Grades 3, 4, and 5 are now available for purchase. Click on the button at the left "Reading Warm-ups - STAAR" to find out more information.
Focus on the STAAR - Reading - Grade 3, Grade 4, and Grade 5 are now available for purchase. Click on the button at the left "Focus on the STAAR - Reading" to find out more information.
STAAR Writing - Revising and Editing - Grade 4 is now available for purchase. Click on the button at the left "STAAR - Writing - Revising and Editing - Grade 4" to find out more information.
You may view brief videos describing many of the products available through readingwarmupsandmore.com. Click on the button to the left titled "Videos of Products."
NEW! Beginning Reading: Classroom Activities & Family Homework Activities - Reading TEKS
This product provides print awareness, phonological awareness,and phonics activities for teachers to use in the classroom for individual students or small groups of students as well as activities to send home for families to work on together to help beginning readers practice and improve their reading skills.
HELP YOUR STUDENTS PREPARE FOR THE UPCOMING READING STAAR ASSESSMENT! - One of the best ways to get your students ready for the new STAAR reading assessment is for them to learn, practice, and reinforce the new reading TEKS. Our products are all based on the new reading TEKS. Use these products to help your students learn, practice,and reinforce the new reading TEKS:
Mini Flip Charts - Reading TEKS - Kindergarten through Grade 3 are now available!
I Know the Reading TEKS! Board Games - Kindergarten through Grade 3 are now available!
Mini Lessons - Reading TEKS - Kindergarten through Grade 3 are available now!
Sentences - Writing / Revising / Editing - TEKS - Available now for Grade 1!
These products are some of the best ways to help prepare your students for the reading TAKS test and especially the upcoming STAAR test! Practicing and reinforcing the new reading TEKS will help prepare your students for the new assessment based on the new reading TEKS. The mini lessons can help you introduce the new reading TEKS to your students. The mini flip charts can be used to reinforce the TEKS and the board games can help students practice the new reading TEKS in a fun and challenging manner. Get your students ready for the STAAR!
INDIVIDUALS CAN NOW PURCHASE OUR PRODUCTS! Individuals can purchase License 1-CD for products on compact disk only for individual classroom use. Look over the Order Form to see what is available for individual purchases.
HOME VERSIONS NOW AVAILABLE! Parents may now order Home Versions of I Know the Reading TEKS! Board Game and Mini Flip Charts - Reading TEKS for Kindergarten through Grade 3. Click on the "Home Version" button to the left for more information.
Other Products Available Now!
Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring - Texas - Grades 2, 3, 4 and 5! Use as Tier 1 instruction and/or intervention as part of the Response to Intervention (RtI) process. Using this product will help you gather the data you need to help struggling students move from Tier 1 to Tier 2 and 3.
These products provide practice and progress monitoring for fluency. Included as a part of a Tier 1 reading instruction program, Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring Texas can provide teachers with data to show students are struggling or are successful with fluency. This data can be used to help decide what kind of instruction and/or intervention may be needed as part of the Response to Intervention (RtI) process.
The grade 2 product includes 30 passages at grade 2, 30 passages at the next lower grade level (1), and 30 passages at the next higher grade level (3).The grade 3 product includes 30 passages at grade 3, 30 passages at the next lower grade level (2), and 30 passages at the next higher grade level (4).The grade 4 product includes 30 passages at grade 4, 30 passages at the next lower grade level (3), and 30 passages at the next higher grade level (5). In the grade 5 product, there are 30 passages at grade 5, 30 passages at the next lower grade level (4), and 30 passages at the next higher grade level (6). Students read and practice the passages each week, answer comprehension questions, and are monitored for progress at the end of the week. Graphs are provided for progress to be recorded. Please go download samples and free trials of this great new product for fluency!
Read-To's and More - TEKS - Grade 1 and Read-To's - TEKS - Basic - Kindergarten through Grade 3 are now available! Great read aloud lessons!
Sentences - Writing / Revising / Editing - TEKS - This year long series of writing lessons is currently for students in Grade 1. There are 9 sets of 20 sentence revising and editing pages for students to read, revise, and edit. Students will be correcting for capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling of sight words. Students can complete one page per day. There are four weeks with five pages per week for each set. The sets correspond to the months of September through May of first grade. Set one fits well with September. Set two will fit with October and so on. Please go download samples and free trials of this great new product for sentence writing.
Why your school should purchase our products:
1. Our products are based on the STAAR and the new TEKS.
2. Teachers at each grade level will be on the "same page".
3. Our products are written by a Texas teacher with over 35 years of experience and is still teaching.
4. Our products are designed to help students improve their reading skills.
5. We offer many free samples of each product.
6. Our products are available in a Hard Copy or a Compact Disk (CD) version. The CD version is in pdf format.
7. Our products are quite inexpensive.
8. Your school can save money by purchasing bundles of our products.
9. We ship our products quickly.
10. Our customer service aims to please.
WHEN YOU PURCHASE AN INDIVIDUAL LICENSED PRODUCT, YOU RECEIVE ONE COPY OF THAT PRODUCT AND ARE LICENSED TO REPRODUCE ANY AND ALL PAGES FOR STUDENTS OF THAT INDIVIDUAL CLASSROOM. WHEN YOU PURCHASE A GRADE LEVEL PRODUCT, YOU RECEIVE ONE COPY OF THAT PRODUCT. EACH GRADE WILL RECEIVE ONE COPY PER PRODUCT AND IS LICENSED TO REPRODUCE ANY AND ALL PAGES FOR STUDENTS OF THAT GRADE LEVEL BASED ON THE LICENSE PURCHASED.
SHIPPING AND HANDLING ARE IN ADDITION TO THE BASIC PRODUCT PRICE.
OUR PRODUCTS:
TEKS - Readingwarmupsandmore.com currently offers six types of reading products to help students learn and master TEKS reading objectives: Mini Lessons - Reading TEKS, Guided Reading and More, Mini Flip Charts - Reading TEKS, I Know the Reading TEKS! Board Games, Read-To's and More - Reading TEKS, and Read-To's - TEKS - Basic.
STAAR - We are currently revising the TAKS products to the new STAAR standards. Please visit this website frequently over the next months to view our progress.
READING WARM-UPS - The Reading Warm-ups series are available for STAAR Grades 3, 4 and 5. Each grade level includes 80 or more passages each followed by four or more STAAR standards questions.
Focus on the STAAR - Reading - This series will focus on each STAAR reading standard in isolation. Practice pages provide short passage excerpts followed by questions written for a specific STAAR standard. Each book provides practice for all of the STAAR objectives for grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8.
STAAR - WRITING - REVISING AND EDITING - GRADE 4 - STAAR Writing Revising and Editing Grade 4 is a series of 36 short passages designed to look like student writing coupled with multiple choice questions that assess student knowledge and performance on the STAAR revision and editing writing standards. Students read a passage and answer questions based on the passage. Each passage includes multiple-choice questions about the passages that ask students to show how a particular sentence could be corrected, improved, or how the organization or development of the passage could be improved. This includes written conventions such as parts of speech, subject-predicate agreement, simple and compound sentences, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Both fiction and nonfiction passages are included.
MINI LESSONS READING TEKS - Mini Lessons Reading TEKS is a series of mini lessons introducing reading Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards adopted by the state of Texas in 2008. The new English Language Arts and Reading TEKS go into effect at the beginning of the 2009 / 2010 school year. The series is available for Kindergarten and grades 1, 2, and 3.
Each mini lesson is designed to introduce a specific TEKS standard. Some of the standards have been broken down into several mini lessons due to the content of the standard.
English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) are included in each mini lesson, if applicable. The reading TEKS mini lesson helps introduce the TEKS with classroom instruction for that particular ELPS standard and its student expectation.
All of the mini lessons follow a similar format. There is a title, a listing of the TEKS standard covered in the mini lesson, a list of needed materials, Instruction, Practice, and Wrap-Up. The materials consist of one or more Instruction Transparencies and one or more Student Practice sheets. Every so often a mini lesson will list additional materials needed for the lesson. These are materials already commonly found in a classroom such as six sided dice, an erasable transparency marker, and plastic or paper counters. The pages labeled as Instruction Transparencies will need to be run off onto an overhead transparency sheet. The pages labeled as Student Practice will need to be run off so each student has a copy. Also included in the mini lesson is a table of contents page, and an acknowledgements section.
GUIDED READING AND MORE - The Guided Reading and More lessons are designed to provide teachers with guided reading lessons for practice and assessment of basic reading skills and objectives at various grade levels. Each lesson is correlated to the new Reading TEKS.
Guided Reading is a research based instructional practice appropriate as a RtI intervention. Our Guided Reading and More products can be beneficial to students as they work to improve their use and master of various reading skills and objectives.
MINI FLIP CHARTS - READING TEKS - The Mini Flip Charts Reading TEKS are designed to be used by the classroom teacher to review and reinforce the reading Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). These sets of flip charts will help keep the reading TEKS fresh in the minds of your students.
The reading TEKS are divided into knowledge and skills sections. Each mini flip chart group presents material from one or several of these sections. The material for the Figure 19 TEKS are being updated and are not yet available. They will be included in this product shortly.
The Mini Flip Charts work well with English Language Learners (ELLs). These flip charts will help ELLs develop their use of the English language and become more proficient.
I KNOW THE READING TEKS! BOARD GAMES - The board game cards and game boards are designed to review and reinforce the Reading Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards adopted by the state of Texas in 2008. The board games work well with English Language Learners (ELLs). They help ELLs develop their use of the English language and become more proficient.
Each board game card asks a question about material covering a specific Reading TEKS standard. Students take turns rolling dice, picking a card, answering the question, and moving a game piece along one of several game boards. The material for the Figure 19 TEKS are being updated and are not yet available. They will be included in this product shortly.
READ-TO'S AND MORE - READING TEKS - Kindergarten through Grade 3 and READ-TO'S - TEKS - BASIC - Kindergarten through Grade 3. These products provide fiction and nonfiction passages that are great read alouds to students. The teacher models effective reading strategies and skills to get meaning from each passage.
ORAL READING FLUENCY: PRACTICE AND PROGRESS MONITORING - Fluent reading is an important part of reading well. Fluent reading is made up of three main parts: accurate word reading, the speed at which words are read accurately, and expression, also known as prosody. With Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring Texas students will practice oral reading of texts and be monitored for progress on a weekly basis. The practice will help improve fluency, especially for English Language Learners. The monitoring will help provide teachers, students, and parents with information that can be used to determine instructional strategies to help improve fluency.
Each grade level product has 30 passages at that grade level, 30 passages at the next lower grade level, and 30 passages at the next higher grade level. For example, the grade 4 product has 30 passages at grade 4, 30 passages at grade 3, and 30 passages at grade 5. The passages are at or near the middle of their grade in reading difficulty. For example, the grade three passages are at or near the middle of grade three. The grade four passages are at or near the middle of grade four. The grade five passages are at or near the middle of grade five. Once each students instructional level has been determined, the teacher will use the first three passages at that grade level to assess the students correct words per minute (cwpm), word accuracy, and expression. The teacher takes the median of the three scores (accuracy, cwpm, and expression rubric) to use as initial baseline data for accuracy, cwpm, and expression. The student will read and practice one passage each week throughout the school year. The next twenty-four passages will be used to progress monitor the students. A passage will be read on the first day of a week. It will be practiced throughout the week through fluency strategies such as choral reading, taped reading, partner reading, echo reading, and repeated reading. The teacher or student can graph the fluency scores for the first cold reading of the passage for the week. The student will read the passage again at the end of the week. The fluency scores for the hot reading will be recorded on the graph as well by either the teacher or student. Accuracy, cwpm, and an expression score using an expression fluency rubric will be recorded on separate graphs. Blank graphs for these results are included.
Included with each passage is a set of four multiple-choice comprehension questions. These questions are based on the reading STAAR objectives. The questions are on a separate sheet from the passage. The teacher can decide to have the student answer the questions after the first reading, any of the readings during the week, or after the last reading of the week. These questions help determine if the students are comprehending the passage. If the students are able to read the passage fluently with the proper accuracy, cwpm, and expression, but struggles with comprehending, the teacher will need to direct instruction to help improve comprehension skills.
The last three passages at each grade level can be used as an assessment at the end of the year to show progress. They also can be used as three more weeks of progress monitoring and just the last passage can be used to show the end-of-the-year progress.
The English Language Arts and Reading Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills include fluency as a component of its standards. Students are expected to read grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. Students are expected to read aloud grade-level stories with fluency (rate, accuracy, expression, appropriate phrasing) and comprehension. (Grade 4 ELAR TEKS 110.15.b.1)
Readers need to be able to read fluently out loud. They need to be able to read words accurately, at a smooth rate, and with expression. They must be able to recognize many words automatically. Students also need to be able to have skills necessary to decode and pronounce words as they are reading. Readers that are able to do this are able to direct more of their attention to the meaning of the text. Fluent readers are able to spend most of their time making connections to and with the text and understanding what they are reading. Readers struggling with fluency are less able to do this.
Fluent reading is important. Students that read on their instructional level, at the rate appropriate to their grade level, and with adequate or better expression are well on their way to use reading as a lifelong skill that will enable them to learn about and enjoy the world around them. Fluent reading can be instructed and practiced. It can be monitored for progress. Students can learn to have confidence in how they read and continue to improve their oral reading skills. Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring can help students become more fluent readers.
SENTENCES - WRITING / REVISING / EDITING - TEKS
Sentences Writing / Revising / Editing TEKS is a series of sentence writing lessons. There is currently a set for students in Grade 1. There are 9 sets of 20 sentence revising and editing pages for students to read, revise, and edit. Students will be correcting for capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling of sight words. Students can complete one page per day. There are four weeks with five pages per week for each set. The sets correspond to the months of September through May of first grade. Set one fits well with September. Set two will fit with October and so on. This chart shows how the sets in this series fill out the school year.
September = Set 1 = Reading Level: 4 5 October = Set 2 = Reading Level: 6 7 November = Set 3 = Reading Level: 8 9 December = Set 4 = Reading Level: 10 11 January = Set 5 = Reading Level: 12 13 February = Set 6 = Reading Level: 14 15 March = Set 7 = Reading Level: 16 17 April = Set 8 = Reading Level: 18 May = Set 9 = Reading Level: 18 - 20
The sentences correspond to levels of the Reading Recovery, DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment), and the Rigby Early Reading book levels. Sentences in the sets of the Grade 1 series correspond to the reading levels as noted in the chart above.
Each page consists of a set of directions, a picture, a sentence with two errors, handwriting lines for the students to write the sentence correctly, and boxes for the student to rewrite each word from their correctly written sentence. These boxes can be cut up, mixed up, and then rearranged into the sentence. These writing exercises help students develop their skills through daily practice. The skills and concepts taught will be reinforced and maintained through this daily practice. Each sentence sheet can be done at school as part of a center, beginning-of-the-day practice, partner work, or sent home as homework. An answer key is provided for both teacher and students. Students can keep track of the sentences that they have completed by coloring in the appropriate boxes on the My Work Is Finished! sheet.
Click on the "Sentences - Writing / Revising / Editing - TEKS" button on the left to find out more.
BEGINNING READING: CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES & FAMILY HOMEWORK ACTIVITIES - READING TEKS
This product provides print awareness, phonological awareness,and phonics activities for teachers to use in the classroom for individual students or small groups of students as well as activities to send home for families to work on together to help beginning readers practice and improve their reading skills. Click on the "Beginning Reading" button on the left to find out more.
LICENSING
The products at readingwarmupsandmore.com are sold with licenses. Each license allows the buyer to reproduce the product for use in the classroom.
LICENSES FOR KINDERGARTEN - GRADE 5:
LICENSE 1-CD - License 1-CD will allow reproduction of any and all pages for students in an individual class. Currently, only products on compact disk are available for purchase with this license.
LICENSE 1-5 - The purchase of License 1-5 will allow the buyer to make as many copies as needed for the number of students in up to five classes in a single grade at an individual school. All of our products are available for purchase with this license.
LICENSE 6+ - License 6+ allows the purchaser to make as many copies as needed for the number of students in 6 or more classes in a single grade level at an individual school. All of our products are available for purchase with this license.
LICENSES FOR GRADES 6 - 8
LICENSE 1-CD - License 1-CD will allow reproduction of any and all pages for students in an individual class. Currently, only products on compact disk are available for purchase with this license.
LICENSE 1-125 - The purchase of License 1-125 will allow the buyer to make as many copies as needed for the number of students up to 125 students in a single grade at an individual school. All of our products are available for purchase with this license.
LICENSE 126+ - License 126+ allows the purchaser to make as many copies as needed for the number of students above 125 in a single grade level at an individual school. All of our products are available for purchase with this license.
SAMPLES
All of our products are available for you to look at and study. You may download free sample pages to see what we offer and to try in your classroom. Download these pages and share them with your colleagues at your school and across your district. Click on the "Samples" link at the left.
We are currently updating our website to reflect the new STAAR assessments.
THE RESOURCES PROVIDED THROUGH OUR PRODUCTS PROVIDE MATERIALS TO HELP FAMILIARIZE EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS WITH THE STAAR ASSESSMENTS. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY HAS NOT RELEASED PASSAGE AND QUESTION FORMAT INFORMATION REGARDING ALL OF THE TESTED STANDARDS. THE STAAR ASSESSMENTS WILL ALSO BE CONTINUALLY REVISED AND UPDATED BY THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY. THE STAAR PRODUCTS AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS COMPANY WILL STRIVE TO PROVIDE ACCURATE AND UP-TO-DATE STAAR CONTENT. DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE EVER-CHANGING STAAR ASSESSMENTS, OUR PRODUCTS MAY NOT COMPLETELY MATCH THE STAAR WITH REGARD TO QUESTION STYLE, FORMAT, AND WORDING. WE WILL ATTEMPT TO MAKE CHANGES TO REFLECT THE MOST CURRENT STAAR ASSESSMENTS INFORMATION AS QUICKLY AS WE ARE ABLE. Thank you.
Our products are available in a Hard Copy or a Compact Disk (CD) version. The hard copy is on 24 lb. 96 bright white paper and bound in a 3 ring binder. The CD version is on a CD in pdf format. Each type of license purchased will receive one copy per product and the purchaser will be licensed to reproduce any and all pages for the number of students granted in the license. Please refer to the licensing information near the bottom of this page below or click on the "Licensing" link to the left for additional information about licensing.
New STAAR Products now available!!!!!!
Reading Warm-ups - STAAR - Grades 3, 4, and 5 are now available for purchase. Click on the button at the left "Reading Warm-ups - STAAR" to find out more information.
Focus on the STAAR - Reading - Grade 3, Grade 4, and Grade 5 are now available for purchase. Click on the button at the left "Focus on the STAAR - Reading" to find out more information.
STAAR Writing - Revising and Editing - Grade 4 is now available for purchase. Click on the button at the left "STAAR - Writing - Revising and Editing - Grade 4" to find out more information.
You may view brief videos describing many of the products available through readingwarmupsandmore.com. Click on the button to the left titled "Videos of Products."
NEW! Beginning Reading: Classroom Activities & Family Homework Activities - Reading TEKS
This product provides print awareness, phonological awareness,and phonics activities for teachers to use in the classroom for individual students or small groups of students as well as activities to send home for families to work on together to help beginning readers practice and improve their reading skills.
HELP YOUR STUDENTS PREPARE FOR THE UPCOMING READING STAAR ASSESSMENT! - One of the best ways to get your students ready for the new STAAR reading assessment is for them to learn, practice, and reinforce the new reading TEKS. Our products are all based on the new reading TEKS. Use these products to help your students learn, practice,and reinforce the new reading TEKS:
Mini Flip Charts - Reading TEKS - Kindergarten through Grade 3 are now available!
I Know the Reading TEKS! Board Games - Kindergarten through Grade 3 are now available!
Mini Lessons - Reading TEKS - Kindergarten through Grade 3 are available now!
Sentences - Writing / Revising / Editing - TEKS - Available now for Grade 1!
These products are some of the best ways to help prepare your students for the reading TAKS test and especially the upcoming STAAR test! Practicing and reinforcing the new reading TEKS will help prepare your students for the new assessment based on the new reading TEKS. The mini lessons can help you introduce the new reading TEKS to your students. The mini flip charts can be used to reinforce the TEKS and the board games can help students practice the new reading TEKS in a fun and challenging manner. Get your students ready for the STAAR!
INDIVIDUALS CAN NOW PURCHASE OUR PRODUCTS! Individuals can purchase License 1-CD for products on compact disk only for individual classroom use. Look over the Order Form to see what is available for individual purchases.
HOME VERSIONS NOW AVAILABLE! Parents may now order Home Versions of I Know the Reading TEKS! Board Game and Mini Flip Charts - Reading TEKS for Kindergarten through Grade 3. Click on the "Home Version" button to the left for more information.
Other Products Available Now!
Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring - Texas - Grades 2, 3, 4 and 5! Use as Tier 1 instruction and/or intervention as part of the Response to Intervention (RtI) process. Using this product will help you gather the data you need to help struggling students move from Tier 1 to Tier 2 and 3.
These products provide practice and progress monitoring for fluency. Included as a part of a Tier 1 reading instruction program, Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring Texas can provide teachers with data to show students are struggling or are successful with fluency. This data can be used to help decide what kind of instruction and/or intervention may be needed as part of the Response to Intervention (RtI) process.
The grade 2 product includes 30 passages at grade 2, 30 passages at the next lower grade level (1), and 30 passages at the next higher grade level (3).The grade 3 product includes 30 passages at grade 3, 30 passages at the next lower grade level (2), and 30 passages at the next higher grade level (4).The grade 4 product includes 30 passages at grade 4, 30 passages at the next lower grade level (3), and 30 passages at the next higher grade level (5). In the grade 5 product, there are 30 passages at grade 5, 30 passages at the next lower grade level (4), and 30 passages at the next higher grade level (6). Students read and practice the passages each week, answer comprehension questions, and are monitored for progress at the end of the week. Graphs are provided for progress to be recorded. Please go download samples and free trials of this great new product for fluency!
Read-To's and More - TEKS - Grade 1 and Read-To's - TEKS - Basic - Kindergarten through Grade 3 are now available! Great read aloud lessons!
Sentences - Writing / Revising / Editing - TEKS - This year long series of writing lessons is currently for students in Grade 1. There are 9 sets of 20 sentence revising and editing pages for students to read, revise, and edit. Students will be correcting for capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling of sight words. Students can complete one page per day. There are four weeks with five pages per week for each set. The sets correspond to the months of September through May of first grade. Set one fits well with September. Set two will fit with October and so on. Please go download samples and free trials of this great new product for sentence writing.
Why your school should purchase our products:
1. Our products are based on the STAAR and the new TEKS.
2. Teachers at each grade level will be on the "same page".
3. Our products are written by a Texas teacher with over 35 years of experience and is still teaching.
4. Our products are designed to help students improve their reading skills.
5. We offer many free samples of each product.
6. Our products are available in a Hard Copy or a Compact Disk (CD) version. The CD version is in pdf format.
7. Our products are quite inexpensive.
8. Your school can save money by purchasing bundles of our products.
9. We ship our products quickly.
10. Our customer service aims to please.
WHEN YOU PURCHASE AN INDIVIDUAL LICENSED PRODUCT, YOU RECEIVE ONE COPY OF THAT PRODUCT AND ARE LICENSED TO REPRODUCE ANY AND ALL PAGES FOR STUDENTS OF THAT INDIVIDUAL CLASSROOM. WHEN YOU PURCHASE A GRADE LEVEL PRODUCT, YOU RECEIVE ONE COPY OF THAT PRODUCT. EACH GRADE WILL RECEIVE ONE COPY PER PRODUCT AND IS LICENSED TO REPRODUCE ANY AND ALL PAGES FOR STUDENTS OF THAT GRADE LEVEL BASED ON THE LICENSE PURCHASED.
SHIPPING AND HANDLING ARE IN ADDITION TO THE BASIC PRODUCT PRICE.
OUR PRODUCTS:
TEKS - Readingwarmupsandmore.com currently offers six types of reading products to help students learn and master TEKS reading objectives: Mini Lessons - Reading TEKS, Guided Reading and More, Mini Flip Charts - Reading TEKS, I Know the Reading TEKS! Board Games, Read-To's and More - Reading TEKS, and Read-To's - TEKS - Basic.
STAAR - We are currently revising the TAKS products to the new STAAR standards. Please visit this website frequently over the next months to view our progress.
READING WARM-UPS - The Reading Warm-ups series are available for STAAR Grades 3, 4 and 5. Each grade level includes 80 or more passages each followed by four or more STAAR standards questions.
Focus on the STAAR - Reading - This series will focus on each STAAR reading standard in isolation. Practice pages provide short passage excerpts followed by questions written for a specific STAAR standard. Each book provides practice for all of the STAAR objectives for grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8.
STAAR - WRITING - REVISING AND EDITING - GRADE 4 - STAAR Writing Revising and Editing Grade 4 is a series of 36 short passages designed to look like student writing coupled with multiple choice questions that assess student knowledge and performance on the STAAR revision and editing writing standards. Students read a passage and answer questions based on the passage. Each passage includes multiple-choice questions about the passages that ask students to show how a particular sentence could be corrected, improved, or how the organization or development of the passage could be improved. This includes written conventions such as parts of speech, subject-predicate agreement, simple and compound sentences, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Both fiction and nonfiction passages are included.
MINI LESSONS READING TEKS - Mini Lessons Reading TEKS is a series of mini lessons introducing reading Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards adopted by the state of Texas in 2008. The new English Language Arts and Reading TEKS go into effect at the beginning of the 2009 / 2010 school year. The series is available for Kindergarten and grades 1, 2, and 3.
Each mini lesson is designed to introduce a specific TEKS standard. Some of the standards have been broken down into several mini lessons due to the content of the standard.
English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) are included in each mini lesson, if applicable. The reading TEKS mini lesson helps introduce the TEKS with classroom instruction for that particular ELPS standard and its student expectation.
All of the mini lessons follow a similar format. There is a title, a listing of the TEKS standard covered in the mini lesson, a list of needed materials, Instruction, Practice, and Wrap-Up. The materials consist of one or more Instruction Transparencies and one or more Student Practice sheets. Every so often a mini lesson will list additional materials needed for the lesson. These are materials already commonly found in a classroom such as six sided dice, an erasable transparency marker, and plastic or paper counters. The pages labeled as Instruction Transparencies will need to be run off onto an overhead transparency sheet. The pages labeled as Student Practice will need to be run off so each student has a copy. Also included in the mini lesson is a table of contents page, and an acknowledgements section.
GUIDED READING AND MORE - The Guided Reading and More lessons are designed to provide teachers with guided reading lessons for practice and assessment of basic reading skills and objectives at various grade levels. Each lesson is correlated to the new Reading TEKS.
Guided Reading is a research based instructional practice appropriate as a RtI intervention. Our Guided Reading and More products can be beneficial to students as they work to improve their use and master of various reading skills and objectives.
MINI FLIP CHARTS - READING TEKS - The Mini Flip Charts Reading TEKS are designed to be used by the classroom teacher to review and reinforce the reading Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). These sets of flip charts will help keep the reading TEKS fresh in the minds of your students.
The reading TEKS are divided into knowledge and skills sections. Each mini flip chart group presents material from one or several of these sections. The material for the Figure 19 TEKS are being updated and are not yet available. They will be included in this product shortly.
The Mini Flip Charts work well with English Language Learners (ELLs). These flip charts will help ELLs develop their use of the English language and become more proficient.
I KNOW THE READING TEKS! BOARD GAMES - The board game cards and game boards are designed to review and reinforce the Reading Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards adopted by the state of Texas in 2008. The board games work well with English Language Learners (ELLs). They help ELLs develop their use of the English language and become more proficient.
Each board game card asks a question about material covering a specific Reading TEKS standard. Students take turns rolling dice, picking a card, answering the question, and moving a game piece along one of several game boards. The material for the Figure 19 TEKS are being updated and are not yet available. They will be included in this product shortly.
READ-TO'S AND MORE - READING TEKS - Kindergarten through Grade 3 and READ-TO'S - TEKS - BASIC - Kindergarten through Grade 3. These products provide fiction and nonfiction passages that are great read alouds to students. The teacher models effective reading strategies and skills to get meaning from each passage.
ORAL READING FLUENCY: PRACTICE AND PROGRESS MONITORING - Fluent reading is an important part of reading well. Fluent reading is made up of three main parts: accurate word reading, the speed at which words are read accurately, and expression, also known as prosody. With Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring Texas students will practice oral reading of texts and be monitored for progress on a weekly basis. The practice will help improve fluency, especially for English Language Learners. The monitoring will help provide teachers, students, and parents with information that can be used to determine instructional strategies to help improve fluency.
Each grade level product has 30 passages at that grade level, 30 passages at the next lower grade level, and 30 passages at the next higher grade level. For example, the grade 4 product has 30 passages at grade 4, 30 passages at grade 3, and 30 passages at grade 5. The passages are at or near the middle of their grade in reading difficulty. For example, the grade three passages are at or near the middle of grade three. The grade four passages are at or near the middle of grade four. The grade five passages are at or near the middle of grade five. Once each students instructional level has been determined, the teacher will use the first three passages at that grade level to assess the students correct words per minute (cwpm), word accuracy, and expression. The teacher takes the median of the three scores (accuracy, cwpm, and expression rubric) to use as initial baseline data for accuracy, cwpm, and expression. The student will read and practice one passage each week throughout the school year. The next twenty-four passages will be used to progress monitor the students. A passage will be read on the first day of a week. It will be practiced throughout the week through fluency strategies such as choral reading, taped reading, partner reading, echo reading, and repeated reading. The teacher or student can graph the fluency scores for the first cold reading of the passage for the week. The student will read the passage again at the end of the week. The fluency scores for the hot reading will be recorded on the graph as well by either the teacher or student. Accuracy, cwpm, and an expression score using an expression fluency rubric will be recorded on separate graphs. Blank graphs for these results are included.
Included with each passage is a set of four multiple-choice comprehension questions. These questions are based on the reading STAAR objectives. The questions are on a separate sheet from the passage. The teacher can decide to have the student answer the questions after the first reading, any of the readings during the week, or after the last reading of the week. These questions help determine if the students are comprehending the passage. If the students are able to read the passage fluently with the proper accuracy, cwpm, and expression, but struggles with comprehending, the teacher will need to direct instruction to help improve comprehension skills.
The last three passages at each grade level can be used as an assessment at the end of the year to show progress. They also can be used as three more weeks of progress monitoring and just the last passage can be used to show the end-of-the-year progress.
The English Language Arts and Reading Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills include fluency as a component of its standards. Students are expected to read grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. Students are expected to read aloud grade-level stories with fluency (rate, accuracy, expression, appropriate phrasing) and comprehension. (Grade 4 ELAR TEKS 110.15.b.1)
Readers need to be able to read fluently out loud. They need to be able to read words accurately, at a smooth rate, and with expression. They must be able to recognize many words automatically. Students also need to be able to have skills necessary to decode and pronounce words as they are reading. Readers that are able to do this are able to direct more of their attention to the meaning of the text. Fluent readers are able to spend most of their time making connections to and with the text and understanding what they are reading. Readers struggling with fluency are less able to do this.
Fluent reading is important. Students that read on their instructional level, at the rate appropriate to their grade level, and with adequate or better expression are well on their way to use reading as a lifelong skill that will enable them to learn about and enjoy the world around them. Fluent reading can be instructed and practiced. It can be monitored for progress. Students can learn to have confidence in how they read and continue to improve their oral reading skills. Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring can help students become more fluent readers.
SENTENCES - WRITING / REVISING / EDITING - TEKS
Sentences Writing / Revising / Editing TEKS is a series of sentence writing lessons. There is currently a set for students in Grade 1. There are 9 sets of 20 sentence revising and editing pages for students to read, revise, and edit. Students will be correcting for capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling of sight words. Students can complete one page per day. There are four weeks with five pages per week for each set. The sets correspond to the months of September through May of first grade. Set one fits well with September. Set two will fit with October and so on. This chart shows how the sets in this series fill out the school year.
September = Set 1 = Reading Level: 4 5 October = Set 2 = Reading Level: 6 7 November = Set 3 = Reading Level: 8 9 December = Set 4 = Reading Level: 10 11 January = Set 5 = Reading Level: 12 13 February = Set 6 = Reading Level: 14 15 March = Set 7 = Reading Level: 16 17 April = Set 8 = Reading Level: 18 May = Set 9 = Reading Level: 18 - 20
The sentences correspond to levels of the Reading Recovery, DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment), and the Rigby Early Reading book levels. Sentences in the sets of the Grade 1 series correspond to the reading levels as noted in the chart above.
Each page consists of a set of directions, a picture, a sentence with two errors, handwriting lines for the students to write the sentence correctly, and boxes for the student to rewrite each word from their correctly written sentence. These boxes can be cut up, mixed up, and then rearranged into the sentence. These writing exercises help students develop their skills through daily practice. The skills and concepts taught will be reinforced and maintained through this daily practice. Each sentence sheet can be done at school as part of a center, beginning-of-the-day practice, partner work, or sent home as homework. An answer key is provided for both teacher and students. Students can keep track of the sentences that they have completed by coloring in the appropriate boxes on the My Work Is Finished! sheet.
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BEGINNING READING: CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES & FAMILY HOMEWORK ACTIVITIES - READING TEKS
This product provides print awareness, phonological awareness,and phonics activities for teachers to use in the classroom for individual students or small groups of students as well as activities to send home for families to work on together to help beginning readers practice and improve their reading skills. Click on the "Beginning Reading" button on the left to find out more.
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