STAAR English I

Welcome to Albert's State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) in English I course!

This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's STAAR English I prep course, including how it is organized, what standards it is aligned to, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

For testing information or details about the exam itself, visit the Texas Education Agency.

Albert's STAAR English I course is organized into themes and further broken into short, formative assessments on specific topics.

Our full STAAR English I subject guide includes 2 themes:

Within each theme, you'll find a set of short, formative topic quizzes. Each topic quiz is designed to be given in a single class period. The quiz questions mimic the rigor and format of the actual exam. For example, here are some of the Writing topic quizzes aligned to Reporting Categories 5 and 6:

This second theme is focused on Reporting Category 4 (Composition). Questions in this theme include a unique passage with an extended constructed response question.

Every question is aligned to the standards outlined in the ELA and Reading TEKS. Each standard begins with the state abbreviation TX.

You can find questions aligned to learning standards using our standards search tool. In the Standards drop-down at the top of the Assessments tab, you can search for standards by name (for example, TX TEKS E1.2C) or description. When you type in characters that match one of the standards, the drop-down will populate with matching standards.

In addition to standards, each question is assigned one or more tags to help differentiate between the wide variety of questions we offer. Questions contain descriptive tags like "supporting-standard" or "readiness-standard".

To search for a tag, click the Tags drop-down within the subject and enter the tag or content you're searching for in the search bar.

For more help on finding questions using standards and tags, visit our Help Center.

STAAR English I uses a variety of question types to test students’ understanding of content and provide meaningful practice of important skills.

For additional material, you can combine STAAR English I with our other Core ELA courses. Our core courses are aligned to TX standards, so you can leverage thousands of aligned practice questions across Albert to assess, reteach, and extend student learning.

Our Help Center is available any time and provides articles written by the Albert team to answer questions you might have about implementing Albert in your classroom.