Last-Minute STAAR Prep? Sirius Has You Covered!
Sirius Online Wins All K-12 Categories at Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024
Sirius Online wins in two separate categories at Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024.
Plan for Success with Cycle 2 of TEA’s Online Learning Grant
Sirius Online can help districts when applying for the Interactive Online Learning Grant (Cycle 2), which is due February 5, 2025.
Success Story: Leveraging Sirius Year-Round—A Better Approach to STAAR Prep
Download the success story about how teachers like Maria use Sirius year-round to better prepare their students for STAAR success.
Success Story: Personalized Learning for STAAR Success in Science and Math
Download the success story of how teacher Amy Rethman and administrator Tamara Anderson tailor approaches in biology and math using Sirius to improve student outcomes on STAAR tests and boost engagement and enthusiasm for learning.
Rethinking STAAR Prep: Aligning Instruction for Meaningful Student Success
An exploration of how teachers and administrators can make sure their students don’t fail the STAAR test.
ELPS Teacher Resource in Sirius Online Grades 3–5 RLA and Math
Sirius Online Grades 3–5 RLA and math courses now include an ELPS Teacher Resource and Lesson Planning Guide that provides teachers with activities for differentiating lesson instruction for all four proficiency levels.
Does Your TEKS Instruction Match the Rigor of STAAR?
To address the results from the spring 2024 STAAR test, Sirius Education Solutions has created a free download that explores the challenges with current TEKS instruction and offers strategies to improve STAAR outcomes for all students.
Teaching Genre Structure To Help Reading Comprehension with The Notepad
Dr. Shona provides some examples of genre structure layouts that students can type up in notepad to help them with reading comprehension.
The Scroll Bar, Comprehension, and Questions: Tools for Comprehension
Dr. Shona discusses how the scroll bar can help students read specific genres and remember where the evidence resides as they consider questions.
Offloading Working Memory: Back to Paper
Dr. Shona shares how to use graphic organizers in the classroom for informational, argumentative and narrative texts.
Follow Up: Mental Meal: A More Mature Approach to Text
When students approach text by deciding what they want to do with it and what kind it is, we can show them how to think actively through a text instead of passively reading. Provide graphic organizers to help them track main ideas in the text and use them as references when answering questions.
Genres or Text Features and Scroll Bar Characteristics: Onions, Apples and Grapefruit
Teachers can introduce new genres or text features, such as informational, argumentative and narrative, to young readers by making analogies to eating certain foods, including onions, apples and grapefruits. Meanwhile, the scroll bar can help students with consuming texts.
The Ways to Track Words
C Question Temptation
Dr. Shona explains that, even though it’s better that test questions are now written so that a reader cannot fully succeed without understanding the passage as a whole, we shouldn’t be asking students to read these questions first since we are essentially asking them to fill up their memories before they ever get started reading.