Staar Master Student Practice Book Writing Gr 4 Teacher Guide

Help students become confident and successful test takers with support from this teacher's guide, the perfect partner to Practicing for Success: STAAR Writing: Grade 4. This guide addresses ELAR TEKS standards and provide Texas educators with the tools and tips they need to help students develop the test-taking skills that are necessary for 21st century success. Students will build their confidence through extensive practice exercises that cover the two sections of the STAAR Writing assessment: composition, and editing and revising.

Student books provide a portfolio of students' writing and work throughout the school year. Each student book provides nonfiction articles and vocabulary, comprehension, and text-based writing activities to correspond with the teacher's edition. The student book pages provide: - unit focus and lesson checklists to guide students - dictionary pages that introduce content words - nonfiction articles - text-based comprehension questions to support understanding - graphic organizers to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing - text-based writing prompts - writing evaluations that guide students in evaluating their essays

Expand fourth grade students' writing skills and prepare them for the STAAR Writing test through extensive practice exercises. This resource for Texas educators mirrors the format of the STAAR test and addresses ELAR TEKS standards, and provides practice for the two sections of the STAAR Writing assessment: composition, and editing and revising. The questions are carefully crafted to guide students as they approach the reading passages and share their understanding. Each of the fifteen passages includes two revising questions and four editing questions. With regular practice, students will reduce their test-taking anxiety as they build their writing skills. This must-have resource includes correlations to the assessed standards, and will help students develop the test-taking skills that are needed for 21st-century success.