By George Scott, Project Director
Academic Equity Advocates
YOU are YOUR child’s best advocate in the public education system of Texas.
You may need to know more to successfully represent them in a public education system that is essentially ‘rigged’ against you.
A key mission of Academic Equity Advocates is to help you know more. And, if you feel the need, to directly help you in that advocacy.
We’ll use the website to help you know more.
As we launch this website, our 1st through 10th suggestion is that you gain a realistic assessment of your children’s reading comprehension skills – especially if your child has reached upper elementary through the 8th grade. Reading comprehensions – or the lack thereof – will impact the rest of your child’s life. PERIOD.
Our site will sell services and products to provide more sophisticated help to try to create a few bucks to keep this website going forward.
It is NOT without intention that our lead story on first day of existence is to try to help you get an understanding of your child’s reading comprehension skills in a quick and relatively easy way by providing you FREE three prior-administered STAAR tests passages for 5th, 6th, and 7th grades.
Our team believes that if your child is in middle school, they should have no problem scoring high content mastery on these “thermometer-like” tests from the public record.
If your child is in 8th grade or above and does poorly, it’s important: but there is still time for you to intervene with your district’s educators.
If your child is in the 4th or 5th grades, the results will give you a foreshadowing of strengths or potential weaknesses.
Please explicitly understand.
- These reading passages have been carefully selected from prior released tests by our experts. We have NOT altered them. We have fully credited their copyright status. We provide this free as perhaps your first step and a more aggressive advocacy for your children.
- We have sourced the year of the tests. We have provide you an answer key for the specific passages. And, if you choose to go the TEA website, we have provided you the full answer sheet.
Here’s the bottom line.
Do you want to start the process – if you have not already – of being a more effective advocate for your child’s future academic success?
This is a start.
We genuinely believe that if you become a devout reader of Academic Equity Advocates, we can and will help you.
We have provide links here to a 5th, 6th, and 7th grade PRIOR passages of a STAAR test because we hope – if you have not already – this is the first step in taking back control of your child’s education from a public education system that substantially compromised to many children’s academic futures.
We hope your children are not included in that cohort.
Here’s your first step.
If you need follow up help or consultation, contact us at ghscott2050@aol.com.
The following are links to downloadable pdf documents with answer keys.
READING SCREEN PASSAGES: 5th Grade
READING SCREEN PASSAGES: 6th Grade
READING SCREEN PASSAGES: 7th Grade