STRATEGIES
STAAR VERBS
NAME THAT SKILL
INFORMATIONAL
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
EXAMPLES!
100

What the G stands in the GAP strategy.

What is Genre?

100

To make an inference.

What is conclude?

100

What is the most likely reason the author wrote the selection?

What is Author's Purpose?

100

The author provides readers with chronological events.

What is sequence/chronological order?

100

The sky misses the sun at night.

What is personification?

200

The strategy used eliminate answers that are wrong.

What is process of elimination?

200

Found, or done often. 

What is common?

200

Based on the information presented in the selection, what can the reader conclude about the black-backed woodpecker?

What is inferencing?

What is making inferences?

What is text evidence?

200

The organization of informational writing.

What is organizational patterns?

200

I've told you a million times to clean your room!

What is hyperbole?

300

The strategy use for character traits.

What is STEALS?

300

Convey (a thought or feeling) in words.

What is expresses?

300

The map of Lindbergh's flight path helps the reader understand.

What are graphic/text features?

300

Factual writing about real people, places, event, ideas, or things.

What is NonFiction?

300
The coffee shop is an icebox!

What is a metaphor?

400

The strategy used for author's purpose?

What is PIEED?

400

Display / show to the reader.

What is exhibits?

400

Paragraph 2 is mainly about.

What is controlling idea? 

400

The text is mostly about.

What is Controlling Idea?

400

Bill bought a broken bike.

What is alliteration?

500

The 2 strategies for summary.

What is BME and The Big 5 (Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then)?


500

The pattern in which informational or nonfiction text are written.

What is structure? 

500

The section "Think Before You Blink" is organized in a way that shows.

What are organizational patterns?

500

It is used to show support to an appropriate response. 

What is text evidence?

500

Biting off more than you can chew.

What is an idiom?

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