About this book
Give your fifth grader the confidence to succeed on all three Grade 5 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests — Mathematics, Reading Language Arts, and Science — with one complete practice book.
This book contains fifteen full-length practice tests — 505 questions total — aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Grade 5 and designed to match the format, difficulty, and content of the three real Grade 5 STAAR exams.
(Please note: these are the same tests sold in our three individual Grade 5 titles, Smart Stars Texas STAAR Grade 5 Mathematics, Grade 5 Reading Language Arts, and Grade 5 Science, and in the two-subject Math and Reading Language Arts bundle. This edition exists to save families money when a student is preparing for all three tested subjects in the same year — if you already own those books, it does not add new tests.)
What’s inside
- 5 complete 34-question Mathematics practice tests (170 questions), with the Grade 5 STAAR mathematics reference materials so your child practices with the same conversions and formulas provided on test day
- 5 complete 41-question Reading Language Arts practice tests (205 questions) — literary fiction, informational articles, poetry, paired passages, and revising-and-editing drafts, with short constructed responses and one extended constructed response per test
- 5 complete 26-question Science practice tests worth 30 points each (130 questions), built to the real blueprint weighting — Earth and Space is by far the largest category — and spread across the science standards for grades 3, 4, and 5, which the Grade 5 test assesses together
- The item types students meet online in every subject: multiple choice, multi-select “select TWO,” gridded open-response items, two-part questions that ask for an answer in Part A and the evidence behind it in Part B, table questions with one choice per row, and written responses in a box
- Question sets in Science, exactly as on the real test: one scenario followed by three or more questions, each scored on its own
- Detailed answer explanations for every one of the 505 questions — not just the correct letter, but the reasoning, each closing with a labeled note (Strategy, Tip, Check, Reading move, Big idea, or Why this matters) that carries the lesson forward
- A printed scoring guide for the RLA constructed responses and the two-point science questions, so a parent can award partial credit the way the state does
- A parent letter with test-taking tips, plus a Grade 5 Science Study Reference for use before test day — on the real science test a student receives no reference materials and may not use a calculator, and the book says so plainly rather than implying otherwise
- Three quick-reference answer keys — one for the Math tests, one for the RLA tests, one for the Science tests — for fast scoring
STAAR® is a registered trademark of the Texas Education Agency, which does not endorse or sponsor this product.
Topics covered
- 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; classifying two-dimensional figures; customary and metric conversions
- The coordinate plane; bar graphs, dot plots, and scatterplots; personal financial literacy, including balancing a budget
- 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, revising for coherence and precise word choice, and editing for agreement, tense, pronouns, capitalization, punctuation, and homophones
- Physical properties that identify a material; mixtures and solutions; heating, cooling, and changes of state
- Balanced and unbalanced forces, gravity and magnetism, and designing a fair test of a force
- Circuits and the energy changes inside them; light traveling, reflecting, refracting, and being absorbed
- Earth’s rotation, seasons, and the changing appearance of the Moon; the water cycle; weather against climate
- Weathering, erosion, and deposition; earthquakes and landslides; sedimentary rock, fossils, and fossil fuels; the order of the planets
- Ecosystems, food webs, and adaptations; inherited traits and learned behaviors — set in places across Texas, from the Chihuahuan Desert to Port Aransas
Why parents and teachers choose Smart Stars
- Written by experienced educators who study Texas’s official STAAR blueprints, TEKS student expectations, and released test questions
- Every question mirrors what students will see on test day — no surprises in format, content, or rigor
- Explanations teach the “why,” not just the “what,” so students learn from every mistake
- Item types, names, and contexts varied across all fifteen tests — just like a real exam, every question feels fresh
- All three tested Grade 5 subjects in one book, for less than the single-subject titles bought separately
