Testing Tips
Question Types
Strategies
WGRD
Mixed Bag
100
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
Get plenty of sleep
100
Paragraph 3 is mainly about...
Main idea
100
When figuring out the main idea, what should you be thinking about?
What the passage is mainly about or the section is mainly about. Also, think about the ROOF of the house.
100
What is the first thing you do in What Good Readers DO?
Read the whole passage
100
In a drama, what are the sections called that wouldn't be read aloud as part of the play but gives you a lot of information?
stage directions
200
How much time do you have to take the test?
4 hours
200
The reader can conclude that...
Inference
200
A good summary contains
All important events from the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Fiction - will also have problem and solution.
200
What is the second step in WGRD?
Figure out the genre
200
What is a character?
A person or animal in a story, book, play, etc.
300
When you have completed your entire test what should you do before you turn it in?
CHECK OVER IT! Do the 2 finger check!
300
What is the strategy for a summary question for a fiction passage?
Big Mama Eats Pizza Sometimes
300
For compare and contrast questions, what are the two strategies to use to help you?
Venn Diagram and plug your answer choices in Go through and "grade" the answer choices using X and check
300
3rd step in WGRD
Analyze text features
300
What should you do when you hear the words: "You may begin."
Write down the steps for WGRD - should take about 2 minutes only
400
What should you do if you read the passage and you didn't really understand it?
go back and read it again
400
What is the meaning of the word embellish in paragraph 3?
Context Clues
400
How do you go about answering context clue questions?
Go back to the text and read the sentences before and after the sentence the word is in
400
4th step in WGRD?
Circle underlined and bold words.
400
In poetry, a group of lines is called a _____________.
Stanza
500
What strategy should you use when making an answer choice?
Figure out the question type and find evidence to support your answer.
500
The author wrote this article mainly to?
Author's Purpose
500
When you inference, what two things should you consider?
Schema - the things you know Evidence from the text Make a logical guess based on those two things.
500
The last 2 steps?
PIE and Main Idea in your own words
500
In a poem the person who writes the poem is called the ________ The person we imagine is saying the poem is called the____________
1. author or poet 2. the speaker
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