Testing Tips
Strategies
Question types
Genre
Wild Card
100

What should you do the night before the BenchMark?

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

The test students will take on Monday, December 16th.

What is the ELA BenchMark Test?

200

What is the first thing we should do when answering our writing prompt?

What is restate the question?

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

I should do this to any word that makes an answer wrong. 

What is Strike It Out?

300

What should you do the morning of the test?

What is eat a healthy breakfast

300

When I do not know the word or words around the word I´m reading, I should?

What is use a dictionary to look up the word.

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
Water in a closed bottle.

What is the only drink a student can have while testing?

400

Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?

What is It demonstrates your mastery of skills in the 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
Fold paper into three for the introduction, body, and conclusion.

What is a strategy for answering the essay question (ECR)?

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 do SCR and ECR stand for?

What is short constructed response and extended constructed response.
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