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Do Your Students Need Extra Support?

Content language supports, platform accommodations, tutorials, and enrichment activities, gathered in one place.

Purpose

Some students need one more layer of support before they can show what they know. This page collects the tools that help: content language supports on leveled passages, OnSTAGE accommodations, step by step tutorials for TBASE and the Learning LAB games, and quick enrichment activities for students who are ready for more.

Content Language Support

OnSTAGE passages come in leveled versions from low to very high, so every student reads the same content and the same tested standard at the band they can access. Each leveled version keeps the central idea and the evidence students need to answer, then lowers the language demand. Picture supports and a vocabulary bank sit beside the text, and a read aloud track plays on demand.

Sample: The Pilgrims Chose Plymouth (Level 1)

The ship: the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic Ocean
Plymouth: a harbor, forests, and fresh water
The colony: shelters built before winter

In 1620, a group of travelers called the Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic Ocean looking for a place where they could live and practice their beliefs freely. After many weeks at sea, they reached the coast of North America.

The Pilgrims explored the land and found an area called Plymouth. Nearby were forests filled with tall trees that could be used to build homes and ships. There was also fresh water and land where crops could be planted. The harbor made it possible for their ship to anchor safely.

Winter was coming, and the Pilgrims needed to begin building shelters quickly. They started constructing small homes and gathering wood for fires. Soon, Plymouth became the place where they settled and built their new colony.

Vocabulary bank

  • colony: a new settlement where a group of people settle and live
  • harbor: a safe place on the water where ships can anchor
  • shelter: a place that gives people protection from the weather
  • anchor: to hold a ship in place with a heavy device on a chain

OnSTAGE Accommodations

OnSTAGE mirrors the released STAAR format, so practice transfers straight to the test. Teachers can set accommodations for each student so the support travels with them:

  • Leveled passage versions that keep the standard and lower the language demand.
  • Read aloud and picture supports for students who need content language help.
  • Extended time so students are not timed out while they build stamina.
  • Small group and whole class assignment so support can be standards specific by need.
OnSTAGE interactive reading tools screen

TBASE Tutorials and Essay Expert

Students who know the routine score better. TBASE walks students through the essay process step by step, and Essay Expert gives them a score and revision next steps the moment they submit, so a draft is never a dead end.

TBASE interactive writing tools screen

Learning LAB Games with Support Tutorials

The Learning LAB games turn RLA skills into short, repeatable practice. Each game opens with a tutorial that models the move before students play, so support students can start without a teacher at their shoulder.

TBASE free trial access screen for the Learning LAB games

Intervention Activities

Standards specific small group activities for students who need more time with a skill, grouped by TEKS strand so you can match the activity to exactly what a student missed.

Enrichment for Students Ready for More

Support is not only for students who are behind. These small group activities stretch students who finished early, each one tagged to its TEKS so the practice stays on grade level.

Crack the Code of Vocabulary

Students decode tier 2 vocabulary with context practice in a small group routine.

Author's Purpose Pie Game

A game format that has students sort and defend author's purpose choices.

Key Idea Showdown

Students compare key idea options and cite the text evidence that wins.

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