What is the lowest score you can receive on the STAAR Essay section?
What is a 1?
100
What kind of statement ACKNOWLEDGES the "other side" of the argument to tear it down in a persuasive paper?
What is the COUNTERARGUMENT?
100
What is the theme of a text?
What is the overall message, lesson learned, or moral of the text?
100
What is the strategy you use to Revise?
What is ARMS?
100
This is a contraction for "it is".
What is "it's"?
200
Which type of composition would you write if you were given this prompt? Write about your favorite season. Explain why it's your favorite season. Be sure to - * Clearly state your thesis.
What is expository?
200
Name one thing that you need in the introduction of your STAAR essay.
What is Position Statement, the reason, or the hook/attention-grabber?
200
What is the mood?
What is the way the audience feels about the text they read?
200
To be a complete sentence, you must have what 2 things?
What is a subject and a verb?
200
This is the possessive form for the word "it".
What is "its"?
300
What type of composition would you write for this prompt? Write an essay stating your opinion about whether or not teachers should wear uniforms. Be sure to clearly state your position.
What is persuasive?
300
This is comparing two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
300
How many of the answer choices should you read before you make your selection?
What is ALL OF THEM!!!
300
What is a strategy you use to edit?
What is CUPS?
300
This word is a pronoun used to refer to a place.
What is "there"?
400
What is the complete essay strategy you will use to write your persuasive essay?
What is H.P.R.E.C.R.C?
400
This is clues or hints that something is going to happen.
Hint: Its the opposite of a flashback
What is foreshadowing?
400
What is the tone of a text?
What is the way the author felt when writing the text?
400
You must use commas to separate items in a list of ________ or more.
What is three?
400
This word is the possessive form for the word "them" or "they". The toy was _______.
What is theirs?
500
What is the highest score you can get on an essay on STAAR?
What is a 4?
500
This is comparing two unlike things using is, was, are or were.
What is a metaphor?
500
True or False: In order to determine the author's purpose, you must make an inference.
What is TRUE?
500
What type of sentence often belongs near your figurative language?