Testing Tips
All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax (problem) and falling action (solution).
What is a plot
What day will you be taking the ELA STAAR?
What is April or April 15?
How much time do you have to take the test?
All Day
What is the strategy for a short constructed response?
R-Restate the question
A-Answer the question
C- Cite text evidence
E- Explain text evidence
Words that mean the same as other words are called...
What is a synonym.
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as.
What is a metaphor?
What should you do to show understanding of the text you are taking on the STAAR test.
What is annotating, taking notes or drawing clues?
When the reader makes an educated guess...
What is Inference
What STAAR test do you take this year?
8th grade- What is Reading, Math, Social Studies and Science?
Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?
What is It demonstrates your mastery of skills in your grade level and is needed for PROMOTION to the next grade level
What elimination process do you use to find the correct answer?
What is crossing out all wrong answers first before finding the correct answers?
When a narrator uses "he, she, they, their," the story is written in _____ person.
What is Third (3rd) Person Point of View
A story that COULD take place today.
Realistic fiction
A strategy used to help analyze paired text?
What is a venn diagram?
Where can you get a good idea (main idea) what a passage is about before you even read the passage?
What is the title.
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
(Bonus - explain and describe)
What kind of figurative language is an exaggeration?
What is Hyperbole