Our family found STAR testing completely unreliable and we never hit the ceiling, my daughter first scored at grade 12 reading level in second grade, and stayed there. Our solution was to have our daughter and son read whatever they wanted and then test on books they had read previously that were "at their level".They were able to rack up the required number of points per quarter and not stress about what they "should" be reading. A quick hint is to space out testing on the Harry Potter books, they are worth enough points to count for a quarter. We spaced them out to 1 or 2 a year and used them in when they hadn't tested in awhile and needed points quickly.
