Genre
This is the genre that can sound like a song.
What is poetry?
This type of figurative language is sounds that are words.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is what we call the words or phrases from a book or article that we can use to support our answers or opinions.
What is Text Evidence?
This is what you should do if you are missing a detail or if you have an extraneous detail.
What is Add or Remove the sentence?
These are the words that need to be capitalized.
What is Months, Is, Names, Titles, and Sentence Starters?
When a story is set in a make-believe world with magical creatures and fantastical adventures, it belongs to this genre.
What is fantasy?
This type of figurative language is giving human characteristics to other things.
What is personification?
When we want to find specific information in a story or article, this is what we do to make it easier.
What is using headings, subheadings, or keywords to locate the information?
This is what you should do if a detail is in the wrong spot.
What is Move the detail?
These are different ways to end a sentence.
What is a Period, Question Mark, and Exclamation Mark?
If a book is filled with facts, real events, and information about the world, it falls into this genre
What is nonfiction?
This type of figurative language is most commonly called tongue twisters.
What is alliteration?
This is the skill we use when we combine what we already know with clues from the text to make an educated guesses about what might happen next.
What is an Inference or Prediction?
This is how many characters you will have on a Short Constructed Response.
What is 475 Characters? (Fun Fact: That's about 10 lines on paper)
This is the last thing you should worry about editing during the STAAR test, because it counts for the least amount of points.
What is Spelling?
When the story takes place in the past and is based on real historical events, it is classified under this genre.
What is historical fiction?
This type of figurative language is comparing by saying one thing IS another.
What is metaphor?
These are the two ways you can include text evidence in your SCR and ECR on STAAR.
What is paraphrasing and Quoting? (Fun Fact: Quoting is the best way to make sure there is no confusion when it is graded)
This is how many characters you will have on an Extended Constructed Response.
What is 2,300 Characters? (Fun Fact: That's about 1 lined paper front and back)
You can use Synonyms when you are on this step in your editing process.
What is Usage or repeated words or phrases?
If a story is set in the present and the characters and events could actually happen, it falls into this genre.
What is realistic fiction?
This type of figurative language is the hardest to identify without prior background knowledge and close reading skills.
What is idiom?
This is the strategy we use when writing our SCR and ECR and what it stands for.
What is RACE, Restate, Answer, Cite, and Explain?
This is why you need to Revise first and then Edit.
What is doing the big stuff first than the small stuff?
This is the correct way to write the following dialogue.
hello grab your materials please -teacher
What is "Hello grab your materials please," said the teacher. or The teacher said, "Hello grab your materials please." or "Hello," the teacher said, "grab your materials please."