In response to teacher feedback and research-based best practices, we have made a number of revisions to the STARI curriculum for the 26-27 school year. It’s important to note that
no content has changed! The texts, skills, and debate questions all stayed the same. The revisions have
added supports for students, particularly in the areas of vocabulary and language development, and made the materials
more user-friendly for teachers.
Updated Teacher Lesson Plans Format
We reformatted the teacher lesson plans to make the student workbook page thumbnails larger and easier to read. And along the way, we’re saving a few trees, and making your bag a little lighter when you carry your lesson plans to and from school.
New Resources for Communicating with Families
We created materials you can use to communicate with parents and caregivers of STARI students. We now have an overview of the STARI program, as well as overviews of each unit. We also wrote up week-by-week summaries of what students are learning, which you can copy/paste into newsletters or other information you send home to families.
Vocab Catchers
Vocab Catchers give students more opportunities to work with and revisit important vocabulary throughout a unit. Rather than introducing a word once and moving on, students return to key terms as they encounter them in new texts and contexts.
Editable Slides
Editable lesson slides make it easier to adapt STARI lessons to your classroom and students. You can add notes, adjust content, or make other changes while keeping the structure and sequence of the STARI lesson intact. Editable slides for Units 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, and 4.1 are now available. Slides for the second and third unit in each series will be ready before you finish teaching Unit 1!
Supports for Multilingual Learners
New multilingual learner supports are now embedded throughout the Teacher Materials for each STARI unit. These supports give teachers additional ways to make complex texts, vocabulary, and classroom discussions more accessible to multilingual learners while maintaining the rigor of the STARI curriculum.
FAQ:
Have feedback? We want to hear it.
All of these changes were made based on feedback from teachers like you. As you start using the updated materials, please tell us what you love, and what you wish was different! Share your feedback at
info@serpinstitute.org.
Thanks for all the work you do to support STARI students. Have a wonderful school year!
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