Navarros STAARY Night 4th grade is Gearing up for STAAR

Important Dates Date of STAAR Exams ~ Writing – April 1st and 2nd Math – April 22 nd Reading – April 23 rd

STAAR Camps Saturday, March 22nd Saturday, April 12th

Parent Conferences Sign up for a parent conference the week after Spring Break We will discuss students progress and their scores on the Benchmark Exams Math will be given February 25th Reading will be given February 26th Writing was given on January 21st and 22nd

Passing Standard SubjectPhase #1 Last year Phase #2 This year Advanced Reading Passing Rate % Passing Rate % 86% Writing Passing Rate % Passing Rate % 84% Math Passing Rate % Passing Rate % 90%

What you can do at home….. Math Homework is sent home daily except for Friday. Continue studying Multiplication facts Help students with homework by using the following strategy.

STOP After reading a question STOP and THINK THINK THINK about what the question is asking you. Are there any answer choices that don t make sense? What is the author trying to tell you? RE-READ Once you have read the question and answer choices go back into the story or problem and read it again. Make sure you have pulled the right information from the passage that will help you answer the question.

Math Strategy Evans baseball team had a pizza party to end the season. Every player ate 4 pieces of pizza and the two coaches at 6 pieces of pizza each. If there are 12 players on the team how many slices of pizza were eaten?

Evans baseball team had a pizza party to end the season. Every player ate 4 pieces of pizza and the two coaches ate 6 pieces of pizza each. If there are 12 players on the team how many slices of pizza were eaten?

Evans baseball team had a pizza party to end the season. Every player ate 4 pieces of pizza and the two coaches ate 6 pieces of pizza each. If there are 12 players on the team how many slices of pizza were eaten? 12 players x 4pieces of pizza for each player = 48 total pieces of pizza

Reading When a question says; The reader students need to cross it out and replace it with you, me, I - whichever makes sense for the question From what the reader learns about Julias mom, which of the following would she probably do?

Writing (23) Customers voted online. (24) Then new flavors were selected. *What is the correct way to write sentences 23 and 24? –A.) After customers voted online, new flavors were selected. –B.) Because customers voted online for new flavors that were selected. –C.) Customers voted online, new flavors were selected. –D.) Customers and new flavors voted and were selected online.

Writing Correct answer is A.