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Great STAAR resources!

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Resources for Texas Educators & Leaders STAAR Redesign & English Reading Language Arts & Assessment & Curriculum Leadership

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Need to unpack a standard or get more information on student expectations. This is a great site to visit!

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Overview and Purpose

Welcome to the TEKS Guide, BETA, for reading language arts. The purpose of the TEKS Guide is to help teachers understand each student expectation in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and to provide valuable resources to support instruction.

Bookmark us now and return often as we respond to your feedback, evolve, and grow.

What are the TEKS?

The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) are the state standards for what students should know and be able to do in each subject and grade level. The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) has legislative authority to adopt the TEKS for each subject of the required curriculum. The SBOE periodically reviews and revises the TEKS for each subject area. To learn more about the process and timelines for review and revision of the TEKS please visit https://tea.texas.gov/curriculum/teks-review/.

Take a tour of the TEKS Guide

This video provides a guided overview of each component of the TEKS Guide, BETA.

Unpack Student Expectations:

Teachers can begin unpacking each standard by exploring the following information on the overview tab for the student expectation:

Detailed explanations of the standard

Glossary support for key terms

Supporting information including:

Related 2009 student expectation(s)

Summaries of research related to the student expectation

Demonstrated Proficiency:

For each student expectation, the overview tab includes one example of how the standard might be assessed. This could be a formative assessment activity or a released STAAR assessment item. These examples assist teachers in measuring their students' demonstrated proficiency of the TEKS. In addition to the activity or question, the demonstrated proficiency section includes rationales for STAAR answer choices and further explanations for teachers about the assessment example.

Alignment:

Information in the alignment tab helps teachers make connections within and among the student expectations. Breakouts allow teachers to visualize each component of a student expectation while the vertical alignment shows related knowledge or skills in other grade levels. The focal points are intended to show the multiple connections among student expectations within the grade level.

More to Come:

Why is TEKS Guide in BETA?
Planned enhancements will make this resource even more useful for teachers. For example, TEA will solicit examples of student work aligned to the TEKS from Texas classrooms throughout the 2019-2020 school year. Student work will be added as exemplars in the TEKS Guide 2.0 that is scheduled to be available in Summer 2020. If you have a great example of student work, please contribute it!

To see what has been added or changed recently, please review the version log.

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The TEKS Guide by the Texas Education Agency is a resource to help teachers understand each content standard in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and access valuable, related resources to support instruction.

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lead4ward makes a difference in the lives of students by helping educators focus their work, creating structures that give teachers and students a sense of hope and confidence, and supporting leaders with systems they can trust.

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Use this tool to analyze previous STAAR test items and use them to create test items for your CFAs and other formal assessments.

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lead4ward makes a difference in the lives of students by helping educators focus their work, creating structures that give teachers and students a sense of hope and confidence, and supporting leaders with systems they can trust.

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Check out Gretchen Bernabei's site for resources and strategies.

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Trail of Breadcrumbs: Tools for Tracking Movements of the Mind

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Tools for teaching reading and writing for kindergarten through high school, including books, workshops, and free downloadable resources.

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User friendly document was created using the TEA Scoring Guide. Original scoring can be found here.

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STAAR Constructed Response Scoring Guide - Google Docs

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Document contains SCR and ECR questions released by the state. The questions were taken from the online practice test and new item types. Some questions include assessed TEKS.

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Experience what students will be expected to do on the RLA STAAR test by accessing the full length Practice Test.

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Curious about the new STAAR item types? Click here to review the new item type descriptions and content areas and grade levels where they could appear.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.

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Electronic and paper dictionaries are permitted when taking the RLA STAAR test. Read the STAAR Dictionary Policy for more information.

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Editing Mini-Lesson Teaching Points - Google Docs