4th Grade STAAR Reading Review Task Cards Set 4 New ELAR TEKS

With the implementation of the new ELAR TEKS, you need a resource to help your students prepare for the test. We firmly believe that the best test prep starts in August. To effectively review, you should begin preparing students during the 1st 6 weeks of school, and our favorite way to test prep is with our STAR READY Task Cards©!

This 4th set of STAR Ready 4th Grade Reading Task Cards includes 24 task cards aligned with 4th grade reading TEKS and common core standards and are perfect for assessing where your students are and where you need to go for the next 6 weeks of school.

These rigorous, higher-level thinking questions are made in STAAR format, have multiple choice answers, and address the following skills:

• Author’s purpose & craft
• Central idea & supporting evidence
• Character interactions & changes
• Compare & contrast
• Context clues
• Determining meaning & using words with affixes and roots
• Evaluating details to determine key ideas
• Genres – argumentative/persuasive, biography, drama, informational/expository, historical fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, procedural, realistic fiction, timelines
• Making connections between literary and informational texts
• Making inferences using textual evidence to support understanding
• Meaning of unfamiliar/multiple-meaning words
• Organizational patterns of text
• Plot elements
• Print/graphic text features
• Retelling/summarizing/paraphrasing texts
• Supporting understanding with textual evidence
• Using print/digital resources

Standards Covered:

• 2019 TEKS – 4.3A, 4.3B, 4.3C, 4.6E, 4.6F, 4.6G, 4.7C, 4.7D, 4.8B, 4.8C, 4.9Di, 4.9Dii, 4.9Diii, 4.10A, 4.10B
• CCSS – L.4.4.B, L.4.4.C, RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.4, RI.4.5, RI.4.6, RI.4.7, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4

Instructions are included for 4 methods of review: task cards review in centers/groups/pairs/individuals, a SCOOT game, Quiz-Quiz-Trade, and a "Be the Teacher" game.

We hope you enjoy them, and we’d love to hear your feedback! :)

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