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The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
What is a rhyme scheme?
Things to include on a NONFICTION notecatcher.
What are Title, Genre, Topic, Text Features, Central Ideas, and Details?
If I am between two answers on a test, I should ask myself this question.
Was it in the selection?
This is what it means to retell a story.
What is restating the important parts of a story in our own words?
This is when I should use the RACE strategy.
What is a short constructed response?
Synonyms or antonyms - hot and cold
What are antonyms?
Types of Text Features
What are bold print, italics, photos and captions, charts, maps, etc. ?
I use this strategy on a short constructed response question (SCR).
BONUS: Each letter stands for this.
What is RACE?
R- Restate the question
A- Answer the question
C- Cite my evidence
E- Explain how my evidence supports my answer
This is a main idea.
This is where I can look for clues about the main idea.
What is what the story or passage is mostly about? (It is BIG PICTURE. Not tiny detail.)
Where is the title and the first sentence of a paragraph?
This is when I see two passages and have to compare and contrast them.
BONUS: Explain what compare and contrast means.
What is a paired passage?
What do the passages have in common? How are they different?
Fiction or Non-Fiction-- Passage about a talking rabbit that goes on an adventure across the world
What is fiction?
These include setting, characters, conflict, and resolution.
What are story elements? (Fiction)
I use this strategy on extended constructed responses.
BONUS: Restate this prompt.
Describe what students can learn about nature by visiting a national park, using details from Layla’s experience during the field trip.
What is RACEACER?
BONUS: Layla's experience during the field trip shows us that students can learn many things about nature by visiting a national park.
I make this when use what I already know AND what the author tells me. I do this to understand something without the author telling me explicitly.
What is an inference?
I do this when I don't know the answer to a question even after thinking about it for a minute.
What is flag it, skip it, and come back to it at the end?
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
This is the message the author wants the reader to know or the lesson the characters learn.
What is the theme?
When completing Reading STAAR test it is best to take a 1-2 minute brain break after completing a passage and questions. True or False?
True: When you take a break and relax that allows your brain an opportunity to rest and "forget" the information you just read before continuing to a new text.
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
Ex: The pretty girl played with the small cat.
What is an adjective?
I should do this FIRST when I am not sure of an answer to a question.
What is go back and look in the passage?
A point of view where the narrator is part of the story so you hear only their thoughts and feelings. (I, me, we, my, mine)
What is first-person?
BONUS: Describe third-person point of view.
This is an example of this kind of figurative language.
Ex. The wind was howling so loudly that it was hard to sleep.
What is personification (giving non human things human characteristics)?
You have the whole day to work on the Reading STAAR. Ask permission by raising your hand to go to the bathroom. Remain silent during and after the test. Take your time—no cell phones. Do your personal best! True or False?
True!
The girl ran away from the disgusting monster. She felt aghast as she trembled away.
I can use context clues to figure out that aghast means this.
What is scared or horrified?
These are the kinds of questions on the STAAR test.
What are usually 2 silly ones, 1 trying to trick you, and the correct one?