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

If you see "Paragraph 3 is mainly about..." in a question, what should you be looking to find?

What is Main idea

100

All FICTION stories are written with this in mind including rising action, climax (problem) and falling action (solution).

What is a plot

100

What day will you be taking the ELAR STAAR?

April 9

200

How much time do you have to take the test?

All Day

200

What is the strategy for a short constructed response?

RACE

200

The strategy used for an ECR

RACEACER

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

What should you do to show understanding of the text you are taking on the STAAR test.

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

What STAAR tests do you take this year?

 Reading and Math

400

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

400

What elimination process do you use to find the correct answer?

50/50

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 that COULD take place today.

Non-fiction or Realistic fiction

400

A strategy used to help analyze paired text?

Text 1/Text 2

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 (main idea) what a passage is about before you even read the passage?

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

Should you drink water or soda during the exam? 

Water

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