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

What is the Literacy Specialist's (Coach) name?

Who is Mrs. Dawson

200
How much time do you have to take the test?
What is 4 hours
200

A valuable test-taking strategy is to ___________ while you are reading.

What is annotating?

200
A good summary contains
What is All important events from the beginning, middle, and end of the story
200
A group of lines in poetry.
What is stanza
200

What should you do first before submitting your STAAR assessment?

Who is checking over my answers. 

300
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
What is eat a healthy breakfast
300
What is the "whole text" reading strategy?
What is read the questions first to see which ones are about the whole text.
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 4 hours?
400
Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?
What is It demonstrates your mastery of skills in the 8th grade and is needed for PROMOTION to high school
400

When writing an ECR or SCR what do you need to include in order to receive a good score?

What is answering the question and providing text evidence. 

400
The strategy for answering vocabulary context clue questions.
What is read the text for hints about the word.
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 What is the title.
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
Passing your STAAR tests helps in this decision.
What is being promoted to the next grade?
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