Testing Tips
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
What is Get plenty of sleep
How to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in paragraphs
What is context clues and use a dictionary to look-up the meaning (or glossary or footnotes if you're really smart)
Paragraph 3 is mainly about...
What is Main idea
All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action.
What is a plot
Your Favorite teacher
Who is Mr. Beckius?
How much time do you have to take the test?
What is all day, or 7 hours or whatever.
A valuable test-taking strategy is to ___________ while you are reading.
What is write notes off to the side and highlight "pay-attention-tos."
A good summary contains
What is characters, problem, and resolution (beginning, middle, and end)
A group of lines in poetry.
What is stanza
PVMS Principal
Who is Mrs. Cauley?
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
What is eat a healthy breakfast and get to school on time.
Name one ELA STAAR testing strategy that we have worked on in class
Read the questions FIRST
The reader can conclude that...
What is Inference
An article about the dangers of playing video games all day is this type of text.
What is informational text
How much time you will be given for the STAAR test.
What is All day or like, 7 hours?
Why is the STAAR test important to you, the students?
What is it demonstrates your mastery of skills in the 7th grade
What strategy should you use when making the best answer choice?
Educated guess, not just a flat-out guess.
The strategy for answering vocabulary context clue questions.
What is read the text for hints about the word OR what is use the dictionary
Autobiographies and biographies are included in this category of non-fiction.
What is literary non-fiction, or informational
When are you allowed to have your cell phones back?
After everyone has completed the STAAR test
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?
Where can you get a good idea what a passage is about before you even read the passage?
What is highlight the title and make a prediction.
The meaning of the theme
What is the moral of the story is, or the life lesson
Authors purposes serve three purposes
To persuade, inform, entertain
What are the steps to writing an SCR or ECR
RACE Restate the question, answer the question, cite evidence, and explain that evidence.