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)
If you are asked what a passage or paragraph is mainly about, you are being asked this
What is Main idea?
All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action.
What is a plot
The date of the English II STAAR EOC test
April 17, 2024
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
What the essay is likely to be called on the test
What is Extended Constructed Response?
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
What is eat a healthy breakfast and get to school on time.
What you should do when you get to a new reading passage.
What is read the questions FIRST
What it is called when you are asked to draw a conclusion based on the text AND your own understanding
What is make an Inference?
An article about the dangers of playing video games all day is this type of text.
What is informational text
What a RACER question will be called on the test
What is short constructed response?
Why is the STAAR test important to you, the students?
What is it is one of the steps neccessary for graduation
The strategy should you use when making the best answer choice?
What is an 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
Two ways of combining 2 indepedent clauses in ONE sentence
What is use a semicolon OR a comma and a FANBOYS?
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?
Read the heading information and/or reading the questions first
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
RACER Restate the question, answer the question, cite evidence, and explain that evidence. Final R: REVIEW your response