Texas RLA with Carlin Liborio

12/24/2025

Hope you are all having a great break! One of my goals for 2026 is to put out more YouTube videos! I am going to do a mini-workshop series that will be accessible to all.

Please look at this list when you have time, and let me know if there is anything else I should add that you want to learn. 🫶

✅️Revising Strategies
✅️Editing Strategies
✅Reading Strategies
✅️Conferencing
✅️2nd Grade Workbook Sneak Peek
✅️TELPAS - speaking & writing
✅️Boot Camp Sneak Peek
✅️Data Dig
✅️ECR Puzzles - getting kids to explain!
✅️Accommodations on STAAR
✅️Paired Passage ECRs
✅️Cambium Practice
✅️Test Tips

Note: These will not go into as much depth as my workshops, but they will hit on the highlights.

12/19/2025

The sign up link is ready! Come join me at Region 10 ESC TRI Ignite Literacy Exchange Conference! Please share & tag a friend! 💞

🔥Ignite instructional impact! ✨

When?
Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Where?
Region 10 ESC
Richardson, Texas (near Dallas)

👟FREE & only 150 open spots! Hurry and get in before it fills up!

My breakout session will be all about how to do ECR Puzzles!

🧩Puzzle Power: Engaging Students in ECRs:

Unlock the power of ECR Puzzles with hands-on, color-coded activities that make extended constructed responses engaging and accessible for every learner. Discover how this research-based approach blends reading, writing, and peer collaboration to take student writing to the next level. (grades 3 - English II)

12/19/2025

Friendly reminder: Get your POs in for these workbooks if you are wanting to use them in January! You will get discounted pricing if you order more than 1 book directly from me. Don't wait until March or April....

Email me & I can send you a quote for multiple copies for one grade or multiple copies for several grade levels. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[email protected]

I have 2nd - 6th grade published and ready to go + 7th and 8th are coming soon...

12/19/2025

It's ready!!💃🏻The 2nd grade book is DONE!🎉Tag a friend so they don't miss out! These are the skills included in the 2nd grade Editing & Revising Grammar Skills Practice! Check out the finalized table of contents! 😍

Each of these 28 skills comes with...

✅ A LEARN page to teach the grammar skill
✅ Sentence practice to apply the skill
✅ Editing or revising passage + 6 multiple choice questions that just test that one skill (not spiraled)

*See captions on the pics to see more details about how this book is organized.

*This would be great for intervention, tutoring, closing the gaps, teaching grammar each week throughout the year, so many uses!

P.S. This book took more hours than any other book I have ever written. It is exactly the way I teach grammar. I hope you and your students love it! 💞

12/19/2025

Happy Friday & Merry (early) Christmas! The 2nd grade book is FINISHED!! Editing & Revising! Grammar skills practice! 🎉🎉🎉

🙌🏻226 pages! (double my other books)🤯
🙌🏻21 Editing/Grammar Skills
🙌🏻7 Revising Skills
🙌🏻All of the Editing & Revising TEKS!

Each of the 28 lessons has...
✨LEARN pages to teach the skill with the TEKS listed (one of the TEKS at a time or even broken down into several skills)
✨SENTENCE PRACTICE pages for students to apply the skill in their writing
✨PASSAGE/MULTIPLE-CHOICE PRACTICE pages for just that one skill (ex: subject/verb agreement - A, B, C, and D are all subj/verb agreement - not spiraled skills)

P.S. Don't forget, if you are buying multiple copies, email me for a PO with a discounted price when you order directly with me. 💞 [email protected]

Editing & Revising Student Workbook - 2nd Grade: English Language Arts, Grammar Skills Practice

12/17/2025

Thank you, Lindsey, for this ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐review! I am so glad that you AND your kids love the editing questions and passages! 💞

*This is from the 6th grade editing bundle.

12/16/2025

Update: I am in the homestretch!🏃🏻‍♀️👟 Final 5 lessons left to proofread ( #24-28) in the 2nd grade Editing & Revising Workbook! I am getting into the revising now! Exciting! I am hoping to publish by FRIDAY! Here is a sneak peek of word choice. This lesson is all about using more specific words to replace boring words in our writing. ✍🏻Who's ready for the break?! 🙋🏻‍♀️😍

Side note: This book is 2x as long as my other workbooks! 226 pages! It is a BEAST!

12/15/2025

I am going deep down the rabbit🐰 hole of GRAMMAR doing the final edits on this 2nd grade workbook this week. Here is the LEARN page on capitalization in a letter.

🤔2nd grade teachers - do you teach commas after the greeting and closing in a letter?

ex: Dear J***y,

✍🏻I added it on the LEARN page because I think it is important to teach this along with capitalization in letters even though it is not technically in the TEKS.

✍🏻This brings up an interesting topic of things you teach that are important but not necessarily in the TEKS. Ex: When they get to 3rd and 4th, they are expected to put commas after the greeting and closing in a letter, so for 2nd grade, I personally would TEACH it but NOT necessarily TEST students on the comma part. How can they write a letter (2.12C) and not put the commas in correctly?

✍🏻This is also how I feel about paragraphs and topic sentences in 4th and 5th grade. I teach paragraphs in 4th, but it is not necessarily tested in 4th. I also teach complex sentences in 4th. Does that make sense? What are your thoughts on this?

This is the disclaimer at the bottom of the page...

*Note: The 2nd Grade TEKS do not explicitly address comma usage in greetings and closings. 2.12C includes writing correspondence, and this workbook applies standard punctuation conventions (APA style) in those contexts.

✨p.s. I also feel like it is my mission in life to teach students how to punctuate and use correct grammar when writing emails and letters. Who's with me? 🤣🙋🏻‍♀️

12/14/2025

Look what just arrived!😁🎉🎅🏻 Stocking up on books for future workbook orders!

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

12/13/2025

I have a favor to ask...🙏🏻 if you have one of my Revising & Editing (3rd-6th grade) or Reading Workbooks (3rd-5th grade), please could you leave me a review on Amazon? 🫶🏻

I would really appreciate it! This will help more Texas teachers out there to find my books & help their students. 📙📘✍🏻

You can leave a review if you bought it on Amazon, if you won the book in a contest, if you were gifted the book, or if you bought directly through me with a purchase order for your school or district.

Here is my author page which links to all of the books. Click on the book that you have, and then scroll down where it has the customer reviews. Click on WRITE A REVIEW. Thanks so much! 😍

Follow Carlin Liborio and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Carlin Liborio Author Page.

12/11/2025

Have your students acted out the DRAMA/PLAY yet in the 3rd-5th grade READING WORKBOOKS?! 🎭📚

Love these pics Mrs. Shelton, a 5th grade teacher at Tarkington ISD, sent me! She has the slides pulled up on her interactive board that goes with the workbooks! 🫶🏻 Also, isn't her stage in the pic so cute?🎤 (*Note: the stage is not included with the workbooks!🤣)

Each student has their own workbook to read from! They can highlight and show their reading strategies!🙌🏻

Drama has a 5-question warm-up on drama and a 10-question practice on drama. All of the questions are TEKS-based with new STAAR question types - Part A/B, Multiselect, inline choice, hot text, SCRs, etc. The workbook comes with 11 weeks of warm-ups/bell-ringers for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, argumentative, and paired passages! 📚✍🏻

Side note: Did you know your district gets the Google slides to teach from for free if you buy 20+ workbooks?!

✨"They LOVED it. I am so thankful for this resource! We have used this in so many different ways, and it keeps my students engaged. Thank you for all you do!" Mrs. Shelton, 5th grade teacher at Tarkington ISD

Thanks so much for sending these pics of the students using the workbooks! 😍

p.s. If any of you have pics of your students using the reading and/or revising/editing workbooks, please send them my way! I would love to see them! (**It will motivate me to finish the rest of these books!)

12/11/2025

Do you want to see my step-by-step DIY VIDEO💻 of how I crunched the data for a workshop with Nederland ISD teachers last week? Watch this video to learn how to do it for your campus or district....👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
https://youtu.be/GtpT8USS_yY

TAG a friend in the comments that would find this helpful!✍🏻 I am all about empowering teachers, and I feel like this is information that everyone deserves to know. 🥰

🌟The data doesn’t drive instruction by itself. What matters is the decisions we make after we see the data.🫶🏻

Here is the original FACEBOOK post if you missed it...
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BZiAeJgXR/

Here is the video...
https://youtu.be/GtpT8USS_yY

One of my favorite things to do is to look at data! This video was inspired by a workshop I did for a school district on Monday where we did a DEEP DIVE INTO...