¡Prepárate para la prueba STAAR! Learn how to prepare Spanish-speaking third grade students for the STAAR reading language arts test. This Teacher’s Guide, written in English, provides best practices and instructions for how to use Practicing for Success: STAAR Reading Language Arts Grade 3 Student Book (Spanish) in classroom settings. This book offers strategies for practicing Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) to prepare students for the English language standardized assessment. With the tools in this Teacher’s Guide, educators can smoothly incorporate these engaging, rigorous practice exercises into daily learning to meet Spanish speakers’ needs and set them up for success on the redesigned STAAR test. • Ensure easy implementation with teacher tips and mini-lessons that accompany the strategies featured in the student books • Build confidence and reduce testing anxiety with practice tests that closely align to the format and content of the STAAR redesign • Help English learners further develop their skills with whole group, partner, and individual learning opportunities • Use the full answer key to identify learning gaps and review grammar, reading, and writing skills

Boost third graders' knowledge base and prepare English language learners for the STAAR Reading test while expanding their knowledge bases. By implementing this Spanish resource into instruction, students will sharpen their comprehension and critical-thinking skills to build the stamina necessary to succeed on the state test. This resource for Texas educators offers high-interest informational texts, engaging literature passages, and poems. Questions are carefully crafted to guide students as they approach the texts and share their understanding. These practice exercises help students with skills such as the following: making inferences and drawing conclusions analyzing the development of ideas or characters, identifying author's viewpoint, and identifying main idea, theme, and supporting details. This must-have resource is perfect to help promote the use of skills needed for success in the 21st century.

Boost third graders' knowledge base and prepare them for the STAAR Reading test while expanding their knowledge bases. By implementing this resource into instruction, students will sharpen their comprehension and critical-thinking skills to build the stamina necessary to succeed on the state test. Featuring TIME for Kids content, this resource offers high-interest informational texts, engaging literature passages, and poems. Questions are carefully crafted to guide students as they approach the texts and share their understanding. These practice exercises help students with skills such as the following: making inferences and drawing conclusions analyzing the development of ideas or characters, identifying author's viewpoint, and identifying main idea, theme, and supporting details. This must-have resource is perfect to help promote the use of skills needed for success in the 21st century.

Help students become confident and successful test takers with support from this teacher's guide, the perfect partner to Practicing for Success: STAAR Reading: Grade 3. With the tips and tools in this resource, Texas educators have everything they need to help students sharpen their comprehension and critical-thinking skills to build the stamina necessary to succeed on the state test. Students will analyze informational texts, poems, and engaging literature passages. This resource explains the format of the STAAR Reading test.