STAAR
The hours you have to complete the Reading STAAR Test.
What is all day?
The meaning of convey.
What is "to tell or make known to the reader"?
What is figurative language?
How should you answer a SCR?
What is CER?
The strategy that helps you summarize what you read.
What is BME (beginning, middle, end)?
The percentage needed to get MEETS on the RLA STAAR Test.
What is 59%?
The meaning of infer.
What is "to come to an opinion by reasoning from facts of observations"?
A turning point, the highest point in a story.
What is Climax?
The organization of an informational ECR.
What is a four-paragraph essay?
The strategy you use when writing an SCR and ECR.
What is CER or Extended CER?
The percentage to get Masters in the 7th Grade RLA STAAR test.
What is 75%?
The meaning of explain.
What is giving details and describing?
The sequence of events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
Proof in the writing to explain answers.
What is textual evidence?
The strategy you do to eliminate answers.
What is process of elimination?
The four STAAR test performance standards (levels).
What is Masters, Meet, Approaches, and Did Not Meet?
The meaning of emphasize.
What is "to give special attention to"?
The reason for or intent in writing of an author.
What is Author's Purpose?
Factual writing about real people, places, event, ideas, or things.
What is NonFiction?
The strategy you do when reading any text.
What is annotate or take notes?
Which STAAR performance level tells the state of Texas that you are on grade level?
What is Meets?
The meaning of sensory language.
What is "words or phrases that appeal to your 5 sense"?
What gives human characteristics to non-human things?
What is personification?
The text is mostly about.
What is Controlling Idea? (Or central idea, main idea)
What you should draw when you get to the essay in your test.
What is a graphic organizer?