The ECR on the English 1 and English 2 STAAR is 25% of the exam score! This is a 3-week unit that supports struggling students and STAAR re-testers through the process of writing an ECR from start to finish, ensuring confidence and higher scores.
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The English 1 and English 2 STAAR ECR is 25% of the exam score! This is a 3-week unit that supports struggling students and STAAR re-testers through the process of writing an ECR from start to finish, ensuring confidence and higher scores.
You’re busy, so save time with this UPDATED ECR unit that has: a pacing guide with links that quickly connect you to content, lesson descriptions that walk you through the teaching, speaker notes with explanations of TEA information, ready-to-teach notes, ready-to-print foldables and student packets, quick scoring guides, and example answers for student writing.
Your students need support on the English 1 & 2 STAAR, so this unit uses scaffolding:
Check out the English 1 & 2 STAAR content that saves you HOURS of prep time:
✔ 25 slides of notes that introduce the ECR, how it is scored, and example essays
✔ a gallery walk where students analyze the scores of essays
✔ 2 short reading texts for partner work and independent writing practice
✔ 8 lessons over 11 days that cover 6 writing steps
✔ 35+ animated slides of teacher notes with examples of the writing step
✔ 5 ready-to-print foldable student notes for each writing step
✔ sentence stems in student foldable notes to support writing
✔ a class jigsaw writing activity for introductions, practicing 3 types of hooks
✔ 4 partner writing opportunities so that students gain writing confidence
✔ 1 student writing packet with a grading guide for independent practice
✔ 1 final essay writing packet for a summative assessment if time allows
And you’ll ❤️️ these ECR resources included at no additional cost:
Extremely satisfied teachers have said…
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ April R. on April 9, 2024
This was a great tool to supplement into my lesson to prepare my kids for the ECR portion of the STAAR test!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Courtney B. on February 1 2024
Very good resource to show the students how the staar test is aligned, what questions look like and the correct way to respond.
Inspire student success!
➚5th-grade reading texts allow students to focus on writing versus reading comprehension
➚Sentence stems give struggling students a place to start
➚Opportunities to mini-conference after each step give students specific feedback for continued growth and writing refinement
Built by a teacher. Backed by experience.
✉️ Email me with questions: paige@everythingforell.com
Important to note: This is for struggling writers or EB students, so it is formulaic writing. Please do not purchase if that is not what your students need. Additionally, I taught this unit after my class read, Thank-You, Ma’m, which is why it is the example used throughout the writing process. You may want to review the story before the unit.
Also: This unit requires students to write a 3-paragraph expository essay from fiction texts since we have seen ECRs get a score of 4/5 with only 1 body paragraph. We know that the English 1 and English 2 STAAR may ask students to write a persuasive letter based on a nonfiction/informational text, but this is not that. I hope to create a practice for that later.
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