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 day and date will you be taking the RLA STAAR?

When is Wednesday, April 9th 

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 B,M,E?

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

What is Re-read the passage for understanding

What is hashtag summary

What is annotating

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

Name one of the eighth grade teachers that teaches a core content subject. 

Who is P,C,I,M,G,K,D,C,C,C,C,M 

400

Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?

What is It demonstrates your mastery of skills in the 8th grade and is needed for PROMOTION to the next grade level

400

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

What is process of elimination or Go with your gut/first instinct.

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

A strategy used to help analyze paired text?

What is a T-Chart or Compare/Contrast

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 the title and or looking at the images/visuals.

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

What should you NOT hydrate with during the exam? 

What is Monster, Soda, Coffee, and/or Tea 

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