Test Taking Strategies
This part of your passage may give you an early hint of what the text is about.
What is the title
What type of poetry follows certain rules?
What is Traditional
This structure examines similarities and differences
What is compare and contrast
I bopped him on his head.
Onamatopeia
Do this the morning of the big test.
What is eat a good breakfast?
Like a paragraph for poetry
What is a stanza?
This structure presents information in chronological order
What is Sequence
"It will take the class a thousand years to figure out this answer."
What is hyperbole?
You should do this the night of the test.
What is go to bed early?
You call it this when there is no rhyming at all.
What is free verse?
This structure paints a picture with words
What is Description
"Paris was as sneaky as double-agent."
What is simile?
Leave this at home, or hand it to a test administrator just before.
What is a cell phone or electronic device?
This tool helps to "enlighten" us about key parts of the text and new vocabulary. We use it to show part of the passage is important.
What is a highlighter pen
Why poems should be read completely more than once during the STAAR test.
What is poems are hard to understand?
One event happens as a result of the other
What is Cause and Effect
Metaphor
Bring this to past the time if you finish testing early.
What is a book?
This often overlooked part of a test passage gives us a "good look" into what the text will be about.
What is a picture or illustration
What poem is arranged with 5 syllables in the first line, then 7 syllables in the middle line, and 5 syllables in the last line?
What is a haiku?
This structure presents inquires and provides possible ways to fix it
What is Problem/Solution?
Personification
Be prepared NOT to do this at any point while testing.
What is talking during the test?