Testing Tips
Strategies
Question types
Genre
Wild Card
100
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
What is Get plenty of sleep
100
How to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in paragraphs
What is context clues and use a dictionary to look-up the meaning
100
Paragraph 3 is mainly about...
What is Main idea
100
All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action.
What is a plot
100

Your ELA teacher

Who is Ms. Mastro?

200

How much time do you have to take the test?

5 hours

200
A valuable test-taking strategy is to ___________ while you are reading.
What is write notes off to the side?
200

A good summary contains

What is characters, problem, and resolution

200
A group of lines in poetry.
What is stanza
200

How old is Ms. Mastro

30

300
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
What is eat a healthy breakfast
300

Name one STAAR testing strategy

Ms. Mastro will determine if your answer is correct

Crossing off, reading questions first, annotation, come back, use the dictionary, context clues

300
The reader can conclude that...
What is Inference
300
An article about the dangers of playing video games all day is this type of text.
What is informational text
300

How much time you will be given for the STAAR test.

What is 5 hours?

400

Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?

What is It demonstrates your mastery of skills in the 7th grade and you need it to pass on to 8th grade.

400
What strategy should you use when making the best answer choice?
What is process of elimination
400

The strategy for answering vocabulary context clue questions.

What is read the text for hints about the word OR what is use the dictionary

400
Autobiographies and biographies are included in this category of non-fiction.
What is literary non-fiction
400
Leave at home or be prepared to give this to the test proctor before the test.
What is cell phones and electronic devices?
500
What should you leave at home or be prepared to give to a teacher or test proctor before the test?
What are cell phones or electronic devices?
500

Where can you get a good idea what a passage is about before you even read the passage?

What is the title of reading the questions before the text.

500
The meaning of the theme
What is the moral of the story is, or the life lesson
500
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing as they say their lines.
What is stage direction
500

What does ECR stand for?

What is extended constructed response.

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