Talk About Testing
When is the date we will take STAAR?
What is Tuesday, April 16, 2024?
If writing has paragraphs, poems have these.
What are stanzas?
ECR stands for ______________________________.
What is an extended-constructed response?
This is the lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is theme?
This genre tells a story and has characters?
What is fiction?
The interim test will prepare you for what test.
What is the STAAR Test?
This is how a poem makes the reader feel while reading it.
What is mood?
SCR stands for ________________________________.
What is a short-constructed response?
Subheadings, captions, and graphs can be found in this type of texts.
What is Nonfiction / Informational texts?
This genre consists of realistic stories.
What is realistic fiction?
True or False: The STAAR test will only have an SCR, not an ECR.
What is False?
I wandered as a lonely cloud is an example of a ________________.
What is a simile?
One sentence statement that lets the reader know what a text will be about. It can also include a claim with reasoning.
What is a thesis statement/controlling idea?
What is the PLOT of a story?
This genre is based on true factional information.
What is non-fiction/Informational?
To prepare for the testing day I should have ___________, _____________, ____________.
All three for points or half for zero.
What is a good breakfast, charged chrome book, a good night's rest?
"And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the Daffodils."
This is an example of a ________________________.
What is personification?
The number of paragraphs should at least have on an SCR.
What is 1?
Name at least two characteristics that help identify a text as a drama.
What are Act(s), Scene(s), Stage directions, and Characters?
What is Science Fiction?
What genre of reading will be on the STAAR test the most.
What is Non-Fiction: Informational Text?
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden Daffodils;
Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Name the three techniques the author uses in the above poem to help the reader visualize the scene.
What are imagery, personification, and rhyme scheme?
On the STAAR this is the highest score I can get on an ECR.
What is a 10?
The STAAR test includes these three (3) genres.
What are informational/nonfiction, poetry, or fiction?
This genre deals with scary tales and monsters.
What is horror?