STAAR Reading Review

Testing Tips

100

What should you do the night before the STAAR?

What is Get plenty of sleep

200

How much time do you have to take the test?

All Day

300

What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?

What is eat a healthy breakfast

400

Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?

What is It demonstrates your mastery of skills in the 4th grade and is needed for PROMOTION to the next grade level

500

What should you leave at home or be prepared to give to a teacher or test proctor before the test?

What are cell phones or electronic devices?

Strategies

100

How to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in paragraphs

What is context clues and use a dictionary to look-up the meaning

200

What is the strategy for a short constructed response?

R-Restate the question

A-Answer the question

C- Cite or COPY text evidence

E- Explain text evidence

300

Write down how you should set up your paper for EACH passage.

Title

Genre

Author's Purpose

Point of View

Text Evidence and Answer

400

What elimination process do you use to find the correct answer?

Sus, Sus, Distractor, Correct answer

500

Where can you get a good idea (main idea) what a passage is about before you even read the passage?

What is the title.

Question types

100

Paragraph 3 is mainly about...

What is Main idea

200

A good FICTION summary contains

Somebody

Wants

But 

So

 Then

300

When the reader makes an educated guess...

What is Inference

400

The strategy for answering vocabulary context clue questions.

What is read the text for hints about the word OR what is use the dictionary

500

The meaning of the theme

What is the moral of the story is, or the life lesson

Genre

100

All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax (problem) and falling action (solution).

What is a plot

200

A group of lines in poetry.

What is stanza

300

An article about the dangers of playing video games all day is this type of text.

What is informational text

400

A story that COULD take place today.

Realistic fiction

500

Authors purposes serve three purposes

TO Persuade, inform, entertain

Wild Card

100

What day will you be taking the ELA STAAR?

April 16th

200

Comparing two things without using "like" or "as.

What is a metaphor?

300

You do not take this STAAR in 4th grade but you will take it in 5th grade

What is science?

400

A strategy used to help analyze paired text?

What is a venn diagram?

500

Should you drink water or soda during the exam? 

What is Water