Based on feedback from STARI teachers and coaches, SERP has developed an assessment guide and other classroom-ready resources to supplement the STARI curriculum.

Because STARI students read well below grade level, teachers have asked for assessments that will allow them to closely track student progress. A new STARI assessment guide provides regular opportunities for progress monitoring. New do nows and exit tickets provide content-aligned activities for students during transition periods, while also offering teachers a quick look at student engagement and comprehension of text. The new STARI resources are incorporated into the “2019 Beta Versions” section of the STARI Download Center. At this time, revised materials for units 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, and 2.2 have also been posted. The remaining units will be revised and posted as they become available. 

Here is a summary of the changes you’ll see in the beta versions:

• Optional “do nows” and “exit tickets” for each lesson (student-facing materials available as a separate download)
• Optional opportunities to assess students’ progress on skills such as comprehension strategies, decoding, discussion, and fluency (assessment guide for each unit available as a separate download)
• Objectives language now aligned with standards and levels of rigor
• Timestamps added with estimated length of each activity
• Adjusted activities in some of the “overstuffed” lessons so that each lesson is between 40 and 50 minutes (not including do now and exit ticket)
• Thumbnails of the slides and student workbook pages added in the teacher lesson plans to make it easier for teachers to see all lesson materials at a glance

Clarifying revisions to the fluency routine:

• Split out the “silent read” and the “first timed read” into steps 1 and 2 on day 1
• Changed the name of the “word study” section to the more accurate descriptor “decoding”

In addition, content changes were made to a few units:

• In Unit 1.2, we replaced the text Who Are These People? (Fallon) with Foster Families (Poole).
• In Unit 2.1, we eliminated the focus on the decoding skill consonant blends in order to make space to focus on the more complex decoding skill adjective suffixes.
• We made minor content changes/updates in some fluency passages.