2024-2025 HARD COPIES OF MATERIALS: Class Sets of 25 Advanced 2.0 ELAR, Writing, Reading, ECR, and SCR 11" x 17" (lowest price ever spring break special: only $7.50 plus shipping)
2024-2025 HARD COPIES OF MATERIALS: Class Sets of 25 Advanced ELAR & Writing AND 11" x 17" Folders
(This is the most updated STAAR 2.0 version of these folders that I barely created in February of 2025!
The only people who have these copies are those who signed up for PART 1 AND/OR PART 2 OF THE ECR & SCR recorded trainings that we are doing this year.)
All reading students in 3rd-10th grade will receive TWO revising passages that can be addressed using the acronym ARM in the Revising portion of the folder. On all previous editing tests in Texas the word Substitute has rarely if ever been used in a revising question. I haven't found one in 20 years of helping schools with writing. With this purchase, you will receive a digital copy of all of the key word strands that can be used for any revising question from 3rd-10th grade. Just let me know if you don't receive this! There was ONE 1 point text entry revising question in every single grade level that either required your students to revise a sentence by changing the order of the words and phrases to make the most sense OR combine two sentences without changing the meaning or context. The state was lenient on the quality of the conventions in the grading of these responses, but you would ideally want to have your students try to write their best complete thoughts with decent grammar on these as well as the two point SCR responses. You want to make sure the SCR responses are coherent, legible, and decipherable to have enough content be understand to qualify for the one or two points.
A cursive and print alphabet is visible for your students who have trouble with letter formations and/or dyslexia/dysgraphia. Yes, starting next school year, all Texas tests will be online, BUT you AND your student should continue to use paper, pencil, and pen during the modeling and learning process. Writing is an art that takes practice. Don't completely abandon paper and pencil work in your classroom! It will NOT be in the best interest of your students! Typing/keyboarding skills develop over time and repetition, so I do understand the need to transition to more computer driven practice and testing. I just feel that if the kids don't even know their letter shapes and sizes such as capitalization on paper, you will have a very difficult time transitioning to all online computer responses. :)
Dozens of figurative language examples (onomatopoeia, similes, metaphors, hyperboles, idioms, and personification)
The word choices of your students will help with the depth of their response. The back portion of the folder has several hundred word choices that can be used as synonyms that can replace overused worn out words. It is critical that your grade level work as a team in all subjects to constantly be adding vocabulary that is learned each week to an ever growing "word bank". Reading questions will be reading TEKS driven, but there will be content and vocabulary from ALL subjects and grade levels up to and including the grade level they are in on the reading genres/passages/selections.
This is a great resource for students to use right at their desks without having to walk around your classroom looking at posters or come to your desk over and over for help.
FEEL FREE TO EMAIL US AT WRITING_DOCTOR@YAHOO.COM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR WOULD LIKE INFORMATION ON IN PERSON CAMPUS OR DISTRICT TRAININGS AND EVEN ONE-ON-ONE TRAININGS IN ALL AREAS OF READING AND WRITING AS WELL AS MATH.
