Give your fifth grader the confidence to succeed on both Florida FAST tests — Mathematics and ELA Reading — in one book.
This Smart Stars combined edition brings together ten full-length, standards-aligned practice tests — five in Mathematics and five in ELA Reading — that mirror the length, item mix, and question types of the real Florida FAST assessments.
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Every question and passage was written by experienced educators, reviewed for accuracy, and built around the Florida B.E.S.T. Standards at Grade 5 — the standards Florida built the FAST test on — so the topics and emphasis match what Florida students actually see.
FAST — the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking — is the test the Florida Department of Education gives to students statewide.
- Delivery: a computer-based test taken online, given in progress-monitoring windows across the year.
- On the real test: students click, drag, type, plot points, and select evidence from reading passages.
- On paper instead of a screen: this book renders those same skills as clear, print-friendly items — with the same coordinate planes, line plots, number lines, area and volume figures, and reading-passage sets.
So the thinking is identical even though the answering is on paper.
What’s inside
- Ten full-length practice tests — five Mathematics and five ELA Reading, 36 questions each, 360 questions in all — with detailed Answers and Explanations after every test
- Practice in every FAST item format rendered for paper: single-answer multiple choice, multiple select (“select the two”), type-in/fill-in answers, two-part (EBSR) items, and table-match tasks — across both subjects
Topics covered
- Place value and decimals to the thousandths, including reading, writing, comparing, and rounding decimals, and multiplying or dividing by powers of 10
- Multi-digit multiplication with partial products and long division with remainders
- Adding and subtracting decimals, and multiplying decimals by whole numbers
- Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators, multiplying fractions, and dividing unit fractions by whole numbers (and whole numbers by unit fractions)
- Order of operations with parentheses, writing numerical expressions, and extending number patterns into ordered pairs
- Volume of rectangular prisms and composite figures, classifying two- and three-dimensional figures, and plotting points on the coordinate plane
- Measurement conversions (customary, metric, and time), and interpreting data in line plots, bar graphs, and the mean
- Central idea, theme, and author’s purpose across literary and informational texts
- Vocabulary in context and word meaning from Greek and Latin roots and affixes
- Making inferences and citing the specific text evidence that supports them
- Analyzing text structure, point of view, tone, and figurative language
- Reading poetry paired with prose, and interpreting figurative and descriptive language
- Comparing paired passages and integrating information across two texts
Why parents and teachers choose Smart Stars
- Educator-authored: Every question and passage is written and reviewed by classroom-experienced educators, and no passage is reproduced from copyrighted work.
- Mirrors test day: Each practice test matches the official FAST item mix, question formats, and on-screen skills for its subject, rendered clearly for paper practice.
- Explanations teach the why: Math entries show the full worked solution and name the trap behind the top wrong answer; reading entries point to the exact evidence in the passage.
- Two subjects, one book: Five math tests and five reading tests together give a full year of focused FAST practice in a single volume
