Download or read book TIME FOR KIDS® Practicing for STAAR Success: Reading: Grade 5 written by Jennifer Case and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expand fifth grade students’ knowledge base and prepare them for the STAAR Reading test by incorporating these rigorous practice exercises into their daily routine. 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. The practice exercises help students with skills such as 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.