For students who are working below grade level, Rise & Shine STAAR Writing is available in an ungraded version-Mastering Texas Writing. These workbooks are designed to equip your 4th-grade and 7th-grade students with the skills they'll need for success on the writing portion of the STAAR test. Divided into two sections, Rise and Shine STAAR Writing first presents students with a series of engaging reading passages embedded with errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization. The multiple-choice questions that follow each passage are designed to help them recognize and correct...

These workbooks have been designed to serve as test preparation tools. Each question is aligned to the Learning Standards for New York State for reading. The passages match the format and content that students can expect to see on the New York Assessment. Each of our grades 2-8 titles also offers a guided introductory section designed to help students learn strategies to succeed on assessment tests. A variety of grade-level-appropriate fiction, nonfiction, and poetry passages are each coupled with multiple-choice and open-ended questions. In grades 5-8, students will find some passages about...