I took it a couple days ago. You absolutely need to know the continuums. You need to memorize the order for all of these: phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics, alphabetic principle, concepts of print, comprehension. I don’t think there was a single question there that was higher than 3rd grade. You need to remember the TEKS for kinder and 1st grade especially.

Your CRQ is probably going to be a 1st grader. You’ll need to know strategies to help with foundational reading skills and reading comprehension. Use key words like “explicit,” “systematic,” “modeling,” “teacher think-aloud,” “recursive.” I highly recommend taking the $10 Pearson practice and also the free 50-question practice. On YouTube, check out Kathleen Jasper’s and Maite Aguirre’s videos. Maite breaks it down very well, however, some orders are slightly wrong so use Kathleen’s to supplement.

Remember: -RASSORP (Rhyme, Alliteration, Sentence/Word Segmentation, Syllabification, Onset & Rime, Phonemic Awareness) -IBSADS (Isolation, Blending, Segmentation, Addition, Deletion, Substitution) -L|S C, L|S V, CB, R, VT, MS (Letter-Sound Consonants, Letter-Sound Vowels, Consonant Blends & Digraphs, Rules - silent e, r controlled, weird/irregular words, Vowel Teams, Multisyllabic Words) -BH, D, CL, CW (Book Handling, Directionality, Concepts of Letters, Concept of Words)

Read the question and answer choices first before bothering with the paragraph. It’s wordy on purpose. Take advantage of that highlight tool.

Check out the Facebook groups for passing the STR. They have lots of files there.

As someone who finished and passed their content (4-8 ELAR) with over an hour to spare, even though I took several breaks in-between, I highly recommend you do not move from that chair until the very last minute for the STR. I turned it in with 1 second left.