Give your fifth grader the confidence to succeed on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) — in BOTH Mathematics and Reading Language Arts — with one comprehensive practice book.
This volume contains ten full-length practice tests — 375 questions in all — aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Grade 5 and designed to match the format, difficulty, and content of the real Grade 5 STAAR exams.
Take a look inside
(Please note: these are the same tests sold in our two individual Grade 5 titles, Smart Stars Texas STAAR Grade 5 Mathematics and Grade 5 Reading Language Arts. This bundle exists to save families money when a student is preparing for both subjects in the same year — if you already own both, it does not add new tests.)
What’s inside
- 5 complete 34-question Mathematics practice tests (170 questions)
- 5 complete 41-question Reading Language Arts practice tests (205 questions)
- The Grade 5 STAAR mathematics reference materials, so your child practices with the same conversions and formulas provided on test day
- The item types students meet online: multiple choice, multi-select “select TWO,” and gridded open-response items in Math; multiple choice, multi-select, two-part items, short constructed responses, and one extended constructed response per test in RLA
- Passages across the full range STAAR uses — literary fiction, informational articles, poetry, paired passages, and revising-and-editing drafts
- A detailed explanation for every one of the 375 questions, plus a labeled follow-up note (Strategy, Tip, Reading move, Big idea, Genre note, or Why this matters) that carries the lesson forward
- Two Quick Answer Keys — one grid for all five Math tests, one for all five RLA tests
STAAR® is a registered trademark of the Texas Education Agency, which does not endorse or sponsor this product.
Mathematics topics
- place value and comparing decimals
- multiplying and dividing multi-digit whole numbers and decimals
- adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators
- multiplying whole numbers by fractions and dividing with unit fractions
- order of operations
- multi-step problems solved with equations
- patterns, rules, and input-output tables
- perimeter, area, and volume, including working back to a missing dimension
- classifying two-dimensional figures
- customary and metric conversions
- the coordinate plane
- bar graphs, dot plots, and scatterplots
- personal financial literacy, including balancing a budget
Reading Language Arts topics
- vocabulary in context and dictionary entries
- inference and drawing conclusions
- central idea and supporting details
- synthesizing across paired texts
- using text evidence and summarizing
- theme, character, and plot
- poetry structure, sound devices, and mood
- informational and argumentative text features
- author’s purpose, craft, text structure, literary devices, and point of view
- composition, including introductions, transitions, and conclusions
- revising for coherence and precise word choice
- editing for agreement, tense, pronouns, capitalization, punctuation, and homophones
Why parents and teachers choose Smart Stars
- Written by educators working from Texas’s own STAAR blueprints, TEKS student expectations, and released test questions
- Every question mirrors what students see on test day — no surprises in format, content, or rigor
- Explanations teach the “why,” not just the “what,” so a student learns from every mistake
- Both tested subjects in one book, for less than the two single-subject titles bought separately
