2017 Secondary Language Arts TEKS
resources, links, and visuals for the 2017 RLA TEKS
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RLA resources, STAAR Redesign, Curriculum Leadership, & Professional Development
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Updated 1/30/23
Please go to my STAAR Redesign Resources linked below to access the student/teacher-friendly rubrics for the new extended constructed response items 3-8th and Eng 1 & 2.
Updated Schematics & New Question Types! 9/2022
STAAR Redesign Scoring Guide for RLA
- 6th grade RLA blueprint
- 6th assessed TEKS
- 7th grade RLA blueprint
- 7th assessed TEKS
- 8th grade RLA blueprint
- 8th assessed TEKS
- Eng1 blueprint
- Eng1 assessed TEKS
- Eng 2 blueprint
- Eng2 assessed TEKS
Want to go look at a full practice test with those new question types?
Go HERE: Cambium Practice TEST Login
Author's Purpose & Craft is not PIE
I analyzed the Author's Purpose & Craft questions on the last three years of STAAR: 2019, 2021, & 2022. There are MANY different verbs used in the answer options, and I encourage teachers to not oversimplify this TEKS into "PIE" and to instead teach a wide variety of verbs when discussing purpose.
Academic Vocabulary of Composition
I'm working on academic vocabulary lessons for language of composition. I want to provide teachers with all the scaffolds and stems to get students talking and interacting with the terms that they will have to know when they are assessed on writing TEKS on the redesigned STAAR.
Coherence Alignment for RLA Transition
TEKS Clarifiers for 6th-12th MISD Essential Standards
Google folder with TEKS Clarifiers
folders for each grade level, I plan to add to these each year
PLC PLANNING PACK!
Here are the files for the "PLC Planning Packs" for 6-8th eligible TEKS for Reading. For my teachers, I printed the readiness standards on green cardstock and the supporting on yellow cardstock. At teacher request, I put all of them on a binder ring. The purpose for the cards is to give collaborative teams a quick way to keep these tested standards "front and center" during team design time no matter what texts they are working with in class. The question stems from STAAR are also included on the cards to make designing quick formative assessments easier.
They are "view only" but you can make a copy and adjust how you want.
Resources from my Fall Session on Using Response TEKS in All Content Areas
Rhetorical Analysis Resources!
Interconnected Planning Flip-charts!
In my efforts to make planning with the interconnected TEKS easier, I created little TEKS flip-charts for my teachers. The links to the files are below. They are half-sheet and they are spiral-bound. My original plan was to simply print on cardstock and bind with an old Ibico plastic-binder machine that we have in the workroom. My secretary wanted them to look nicer, so we ended up sending these files to a local printer and we paid to have them printed, bound, and assembled.
The New ELAR TEKS adopted 2017
- K-8th implemented in 2019-2020
- 9th-12th implemented in 2020-2021
Resources:
9-12th TEKS scroll to see adopted in 2017 TEKS
PD2Teach resources (from TCTELA)
If the TEKS strands are books on a shelf, then Foundational Skills and Inquiry & Research are the bookends, supporting them all.
Curriculum Pieces
Resources for Administrators
Click here for ONE-PAGER for Admin with T-TESS!
new TEKS & T-TESS Crosswalk
Comprehension + Response = THINKING OUTPUT!
Resources to Help Teachers and Curriculum Folks!
Another Stab at a Template for Multiple Genre Text Set Curation
Text Set Curation
In our efforts to build stacks of multiple genre texts for teachers to access easily as they have students reading many different texts, this is our text curation template. This one is for 6th grade (they are TEKS-specific so there is one per grade level.) It's still a "work-in-progress", but it definitely pushed teams to discuss texts on a different level this summer.
Hexagonal Writing For Literary Analysis Using Response TEKS
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great fold-out brochure for 6-8th