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 will you be taking the ELA STAAR?

April 15th

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 restate question as conclusion?

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 I have said 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

You do not take this STAAR in 7th grade but you will take it in 8th grade

What is history?

400

Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?

What is It demonstrates your mastery of skills in the 7th 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?

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

What should you do on paper while reading the passages especially the essay?

What is writing my annotations.

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

What should you not do while we are testing? 

What is not TALK or get out of seat without permission

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