Testing Tips
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
Get plenty of sleep
How can you determine the meanings of unfamiliar words while you are taking the test?
Use context clues and use the dictionary tool.
When it says, "Paragraph 3 is mainly about ___", what are you looking for?
Main idea
All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action.
Plot
Our campus mascot.
Bobcat
The math test was laborious; it took me three hours of hard work to finish it.
"Hard Work"
Cite 2 pieces of evidence in ECR and 1 in SCR. ECR includes a summary.
How much time do you have to take the test?
All Day
What kind of diagram should you use to help analyze paired text?
Venn Diagram
The author's feeling/attitude towards the subject matter in the text.
Tone
Where a line ends in a poem.
Line Break.
A phrase that is not taken literally.
Idiom
Unlike her solitary brother, Sarah loves being surrounded by large groups of people.
What is "Unlike"? (or "Surrounded by large groups")
Telling the difference between an SCR and an ECR on STAAR Test.
What is look at the instructions. The ECR will include the longer explanation about what to include.
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
Eat a healthy breakfast
When reading a question that specifies a certain paragraph, this is the most important thing a student should do.
Go back to the text!
When you use background knowledge + clues from the text.
Inference
An article about the evolution of technology over time is written in this type of text structure.
Sequence/Chronological
What STAAR tests you will take this year in 6th grade?
Reading and Math
The desert air was arid, making the hikers feel incredibly thirsty and dry.
What is thirsty and dry?
Ways to structure an ECR.
Paragraphs
What is the purpose of the STAAR test?
It gives students an opportunity to show your mastery of skills in the 6th grade and tells us you are ready for 7th grade.
What strategy should you use when making the best answer choice?
Process of elimination
The sequence of events that make up a story.
Plot
Another name for main idea.
Central Idea/Controlling Idea
What figurative language is used in this phrase?
My alarm clock screams at me every morning, demanding that I get out of bed.
Personification
The king’s benevolence was well known; for example, he gave free food to the poor every Sunday.
What is "gave free food to the poor"?
When you edit your writing, you should be looking for what things?
Capitalization
Usage/Grammar
Punctuation
Spelling
What is the question asking you to find if it is worded like this: "The details in paragraph 5 support the idea that - "
Supporting Details/Text Evidence
Where can you get a good idea what a passage is about before you even read the passage?
The title.
The moral/lesson the reader learns from a story.
What is a theme?
3 types of an author's purpose
To persuade, inform, entertain
If a passage is asking about an "Author's Claim," what type of text are you reading?
Argumentative or persuasive
The scientist noticed the chemicals were volatile, as they began to bubble and explode unexpectedly.
What is "Explode unexpectedly"?
Add information
Remove extra information
Move words and sentences
Substitute words (NO repetitive)