Strategy
Figurative Language
What's That Genre?
Identify My Mood
Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots
100
This is the first thing you do when you begin your STAAR Reading test.
What is reading the questions?
100
LIst the two types of figurative language used in this sentence: That guy is as mean as an acre of snakes, and the toughest, ugliest desperado in the West.
What is simile and hyperbole.
100
Informative texts such as newspaper articles, journal articles, and textbooks fall into this genre.
What is non-fiction.
100
This is the definition of mood.
What is the way the reader feels while reading the text?
100
This prefix means 'before'
What is 'pre-'?
200
The "D" and "I" stand for this when annotating questions about summary.
What are "Detail" and "Important Information?"
200
Saving snails was a success.
What is alliteration?
200
This is a type of writing done by one person about another person's life.
What is biography.
200
True or False: the mood can change through a change in diction.
What is True?
200
This is the meaning of the suffix '-spect'
What is to look at or see?
300
This is the process of using strategies, including marking where you found your answers, to help you break down a reading passage.
What is annotating?
300
Write a sentence where you personify the wind.
What is (various answers)
300
Science and historical are types of this genre.
What is fiction?
300
List 5 positive mood words.
What is (answers will vary)
300
This prefix means 'land' or 'earth'
What is geography?
400
You should use "my definition" in these two circumstances.
What are when you look up an unkown word in the dictionary and when you see a term we've gone over in class before.
400
This is the purpose of figurative language.
What is to make writing stronger, more appealing, add interest, etc?
400
A narrator is included in this genre.
What is a play/drama?
400
List 5 negative mood words.
What is (answers will vary)
400
This suffix means 'to throw'
What is '--ject'?
500
These are the reading strategies listed in order from first to last. (There are 5.)
What are 1) Read Questions, 2) Code/Annotate Questions, 3) Stop-Think-Answer, 4) "My Answer", 5) P.O.E.?
500
List 5 idioms.
What is (answers may vary).
500
This type of writing gives you insight into the exact thoughts and ideas of the writer. It is written in first person point of view.
What is diary/journal writing? What is autobiography?
500
Identify the mood created in this passage (the best answer wins the points): From one thousand mountains the birds' flights are gone; From ten thousand byways the human track has vanished. In a single boat, an aged man, straw cloak and hat, Fishes alone; snow falls, cold in the river. DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What is melancholy, somber, desolate, etc
500
These are are prefixes that mean 'not'
What are '--un' '--dis' '--in' and '--il'
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