Testing Tips
Strategies
Question types
Genre
Wild Card
100

What should you do the night before the STAAR?

What is get plenty of sleep

100
How to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in paragraphs
What is context clues and use a dictionary to look-up the meaning
100
Paragraph 3 is mainly about...
What is Main idea
100
All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action.
What is a plot
100

What two sports does Coach Ramirez coach??

Volleyball and tennis

200

How much time do you have to take the test?

All Day

200

A valuable test-taking strategy is to ___________ while you are reading.

What is annotate?

200

A good summary contains

What is characters, problem, and resolution and BMD?

200
A group of lines in poetry.
What is stanza
200

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

What is a metaphor?

300
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
What is eat a healthy breakfast
300

Name one ELA STAAR testing strategy that we have worked on in class

Re-read the passage for understanding

300

When the reader makes an educated guess...

What is Inference

300
An article about the dangers of playing video games all day is this type of text.
What is informational text
300

What importanttest do we have after this?

What is MAP?

400

Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?

don't have to go to summer school, shows growth in your education

400

What strategy should you use when making the best answer choice?

What is process of elimination or Dumb, Dumb, Tricky and True?

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

400

A story about history written with different characters.

Historical fiction

400

How many characters are available for an ECR

What is a 2300?

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?
500
Where can you get a good idea what a passage is about before you even read the passage?
What is What is the title.
500

The meaning of the theme

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

500

Authors purposes serve three purposes

TO Persuade, inform, entertain

500

This is the amount of characters for an SCR.

Who is 475?

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