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Your Language Arts teaching life is suddenly a little less stressful. Subscribe NOW for the grade level and subscription level of your choice! It’s as simple as ABC!

Level A: The Assessments
Level B: The Bridge
Level C: The Curriculum

If you are ready to have TEKS-based practice tests and automatic grading capabilities at your fingertips, the Teach BIG Online Assessment Platform is for YOU!

We know you have been looking for a place that has TEKS-based passages so that your students can experience all the different question types WITH all the new interactive testing tools found on the STAAR test!

All Teach BIG passages are NEW and center around Science, Social Studies, or Fine Arts TEKS. Now all of your cross-curricular and practice “at-bats” can be found in one easy-to-navigate application.

You will also fall in love with the online Interactive DAILY Lesson Plans and the Video Virtual Courses! Who wouldn’t LOVE to have an “assistant” teacher in the room helping teach grammar rules via video?

Join all of that greatness with a ton of teacher and student resources.

For teachers: Teach BIG offers TEKS correlations for every passage and every question, detailed answer keys complete with distractors noted, passage information breakdowns, and parent letters. Enjoy the automatic grading and automatic TEKS study groups with just a simple click of a button!

For students: Teach BIG offers eight new practice passages on the first of every month. All passages are grade level and exile level specific. The passages also provide the experience for students to navigate and use the tools that they will also have available on the STAAR assessment. Exposure to all of the new question styles and answer choice distractors provide valuable at bats for students throughout the school year. Students will also enjoy the highlighting capabilities, text to speech capabilities, note taking capabilities, and answer choice eliminating capabilities.

Accommodations are also available for students as the school and teacher sees fit.

We have even designed TEKS posters and academic vocabulary flashcards for you to print and display in your classroom!

Click on the button below to view the details for each of the ABC subscription levels see which level is best for you and your students.

Please keep in mind that the Teach BIG Online Assessment Platform is designed for small, medium, and large-scale implementation. A single teacher, a school, or an entire district can subscribe to get the full benefits of being data-driven!

Welcome to the ABCs of the Teach BIG Online Practice Assessment Platform!

Our levels are simple and productive – just like our assessment platform.

It’s as easy as learning your ABCs!

Level A: Assessments

This level is chalked full of academic breadth and depth which provides relevant STAAR 2.0 online practice assessments. Whether you are excited to find fresh TEKS-correlated practice passages, have assessments automatically graded, or have TEKS groups automatically generated for your HB 1416 tutorial groups, Level A is a great place to start!

Look at all the GREATNESS included in Level A that subscribers will receive on the first day of every month!

What Do I Receive Each Month?

8 New ONLINE TEKS-Correlated Passages with Questions, Answer Choices, Answer Keys
Tutorial Resources
Automatically Graded and Generated Reports (denoted with reds/greens for easy understanding)
Home to School Connection Letters based on TEKS needs of individual students
Printing capabilities for all passages and questions
Passages, questions, and answer choices available in ENGLISH and SPANISH
Online and interactive tools for practicing (allows for real-time, STAAR-aligned practice)
Highlighting tool
Strike-through (Answer Elimination tool)
Interactive Notetaking and Annotation tool
Dictionary tool
Text to Speech tool
Speech to Text tool
Accommodations for individual students assigned by teachers and/or administrators
Pause and start button to allow for breaks
Timing Tool

Practice Passage Information:

Lexile-leveled passages
All passages contain a wealth of textual evidence in which to support any type of question
Editing and Revising Passages, Answer Choices, and Answer Keys
Paired Passages, Answer Choices, Answer Keys
Ability for students to use interactive tools offered on the STAAR 2.0 Assessment
Ability for teachers to view where students used the interactive tools (such as highlighting, answer elimination, and word tools)
Ability to see each students’ real-time progress within each practice passage
Ability to assign assessments in small chunks
Ability top assign multiple passages to work up endurance as the assessment time nears
Ability to use some or all of the monthly passages within that month or save some for future months to be used as benchmarks
Ability to assign students passages that can be completed at home

Questions and Answer Information:

All questions are based on the new levelled questioning tiers used for STAAR 2.0 (The 4 Dimensions of thinking required to answer the new question types.)
Multiple choice, Multi-part, and Multi-select, Hot Text, Text Entry, Inline Choice, Match Table Grid questions/answers and answer keys are offered at their specific grade levels
Short Constructed Response (SCR) Prompts
Extended Constructed Response (ECR) Prompts
Interactive commenting tool for teachers to respond directly to students’ typed responses (automatic grading of typed responses not offered at this time)
Automatic Grading sent directly back to the teacher
Answer choice analysis
Automatic reports with TEKS correlations & grouping for HB 1416 purposes
Incorrect answer choice analysis with distractor notes
Passage analysis sheets for each passage including: TEKS, Style, Theme, Central/Controlling Idea or Theme, Academic Vocabulary, Inferences, and Supporting Textual Evidence
Activities for small groups/reteaching/tutorials

General Notes for Level A: Assessments

ACCOMMODATIONS are offered at every grade level and selected by the teacher or administrator for each student
May be used as whole group lessons on a Smart Board type of platform or for individual students use
Subscribe to the GRADE level of your choice (grades 2-10 offered)
We offer this level in convenient packages suited for individual teachers, schools, districts, and homeschooling families
Ability to integrate with Clever platform
As long as your subscription is kept current, all previous months of information are always available from year to year
All new passages every year….NO REPEATED passages as students move from one grade level to the next
Easy bulk uploading capabilities
A Teach BIG representative will come to your campus free of charge (you only pay travel) and inservice all of your teachers on the use of the assessment platform if 25 or more teachers and their students purchase the assessment platform

What is the COST for all this GREATNESS to be YOURS?

Public and Private School Pricing

1 teacher with up to 25 students ($299 per year)
Additional teachers for team-teaching scenarios, administrator add-ons, and interventionist add-ons are available at only $100 per year
Additional blocks of students (up to 25) are available for only $199 per year

Homeschool Pricing

All of the same services are provided at an affordable price of $199 per family, per year (up to 6 children in the same)
Multiple grade levels are available under the same family pricing (up to 6 children in the same house)

Funding

If you need help writing a grant to have this valuable resource for your students, please go to the FUNDING RESOURCES button in our store. You will find a host of supporting documents that will make your grant-writing journey easier.
We can also utilize unique ways for schools to parent-fund the assessment platform through offering children’s books and activities for parents to use at home with their children. Please reach out to us regarding this option. welcome@teachbig.com or 281-549-4466

Level B: Bridges

Level B is designed to provide teachers with the necessary bridges with which to fill the gaps between what is truly mastered information and what needs to be taught to students. Teachers cannot be experts in every subject, every day. The Teach BIG training and informational videos help teachers prepare for those little areas where some support is needed.

Enjoy the accompanying handout with each video. They are digital and may also be printed for your convenience.

The learning videos also make for an excellent emergency substitute day activity. Simply have instructions at-the-ready for an unexpected day when you need to be away from your class!

ALL OF LEVEL A, PLUS:

Teacher videos for self-review before teaching new or tough aspects of ELAR such as reading, editing, revising, and composition concepts
Accompanying handout which can be printed for use during the video
Accompanying handout to use with students regarding the concept taught within the video
Virtual Trainings w/CPE credit certificates
Watch the videos at school or from the convenience of your home
Videos may be shown to students for direct instruction
Videos range from 15-60 minutes in length
Videos include reading, editing, revising, and composition (short & extended responses)
New videos are released each month
As long as you maintain your subscription, all previous videos are viewable at all times

What is the COST for all this GREATNESS to be YOURS?

Public and Private School Pricing

1 teacher with up to 25 students ($399 per year)
Additional teachers for team-teaching scenarios, administrator add-ons, and interventionist add-ons are available at only $200 per year
There are not additional student plans for this level since it is only available to teachers

Homeschool Pricing

All of the same services are provided at an affordable price of $250 per family, per year (up to 6 children in the same)
Multiple grade levels are available under the same family pricing (up to 6 children in the same house)

Funding

If you need help writing a grant to have this valuable resource for your students, please go to the FUNDING RESOURCES button in our store. You will find a host of supporting documents that will make your grant-writing journey easier.
We can also utilize unique ways for schools to parent-fund the assessment platform through offering children’s books and activities for parents to use at home with their children. Please reach out to us regarding this option. welcome@teachbig.com or 281-549-4466

Level C: Curriculum

The daily demands of a teacher are growing every year! Let this day-by-day curriculum guide relieve the Language Arts part of the stress by providing a scope and sequence (based on TRS – TEKS Resource System), lesson plans, state alignment, activities, and even motivation to help you navigate through the school year in all aspects of ELAR instruction.

The Teach BIG Online Curriculum is highly comprehensive, but you probably have some of your favorite lessons that you use to teach theme, summarization, idea development, introductions, conclusions, editing, revising, and more. With our arrangement, utilize your amazing lessons by simply inserting them when that concept appears in the sequence. Our unique design also allows for rearrangement if your school or district implements a different scope and sequence. The essential concepts remain, all the while providing the freedom to place them in the order that best fits your needs.

The digital version of the Teach BIG Online Curriculum contains interactive student slides and PDF documents containing the teacher keys, assessments, TEKs correlations, and printable lessons for your students. You will receive a link to download your curriculum and digital classroom slides.

ALL OF LEVELS A and B, PLUS:

DAILY, online, interactive lesson plans with TEKS correlations released at the start of each month
Follows TRS Scope and Sequence
Interactive activities and games
Videos, Slide Shows, chants, puzzles, and songs
Printable activities and hand-outs (full color + black/white options)
Corresponding Assessments
Can be utilized on any platform, as well as printed
Use whole group or individually

What is the COST for all this GREATNESS to be YOURS?

Public and Private School Pricing

1 teacher with up to 25 students ($499 per year)
Additional teachers for team-teaching scenarios, administrator add-ons, and interventionist add-ons are available at only $300 per year
There are not additional student plans for this level since it is only available to teachers

Homeschool Pricing

All of the same services are provided at an affordable price of $450 per family, per year (up to 6 children in the same)
Multiple grade levels are available under the same family pricing (up to 6 children in the same house)

Funding

If you need help writing a grant to have this valuable resource for your students, please go to the FUNDING RESOURCES button in our store. You will find a host of supporting documents that will make your grant-writing journey easier.
We can also utilize unique ways for schools to parent-fund the assessment platform through offering children’s books and activities for parents to use at home with their children. Please reach out to us regarding this option. welcome@teachbig.com or 281-549-4466