STAAR Procedures
Reading Strategies
Reading
Math
Strategies-Fun facts
100
You can get out of your seat during the test.
FALSE
100

When using the RACE strategy, what does the acronym RACE stand for?

Restate, Answer, Cite the Evidence, Explain

100
What is an opinion?
A personal belief about something that cannot be proven.
100
Which place value is the digit 5 in 35,824?
thousands
100

What should you eat the morning of the test?

What is a healthy breakfast.

200
You should get a good night sleep and eat breakfast before the test.
TRUE
200

How many times should you read a poem?

At many as you need.

200
What does predict mean?
To say an event or action that will happen in the future.
200
A baseball league bought 9 boxes of baseballs. Each box contained 36 baseballs. How many baseballs did the league buy?
324
200

How many hours of sleep should you get the night before the test?

What is between 8 to 9 hours.

300

What App do I use to take the STAAR test?

Secure Test Browser

300

What should you do if you are not focused on your story or questions and you are zoning out during your reading?

You should take a quick break, drink some water, or stretch to get your blood flowing.

300
In a non-fiction passage, why do we include text features?
They help us understand what read.
300
Gina has 42 mushrooms to put into 6 salads. She wants to put the same number of mushrooms in each salad.
7
300

You get sleepy while testing. What is the best decision to make?

What is take a brain or bathroom break.

400

Are breaks allowed during STAAR assessments?

Yes. Students are allowed to take breaks during the administration of STAAR assessments. Some breaks, such as water and snack breaks, are included in the time limit.

400
Should you try to prove your work for each question?
YES!
400
True or False. A summary describes the main idea in nonfiction text and beginning, middle/problem, and end/solution in fiction.
TRUE.
400

Rounding 162 to the nearest tens is ?

160

400

There are 3 apples in the basket and you take away 2. How many apples do you have now?

What is You have 2 apples. 

You took away 2 apples and left 1 in the basket.

500

In what subjects are students assessed under the STAAR test?

3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th grade Mathematics and Reading.

5th Mathematics, Reading, and Science.

8th Mathematics, Reading, Science, and Social Studies.

500
Should you be thinking about the genre of your story before, during and after you read? Why?
Yes, because it will help you understand it better.
500
What kind of poem tells a story?
Narrative.
500

48x 56

2,688

500

If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. 

What is it?

What is a secret.

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