Before Testing
STAAR related questions
Fun Facts
STAAR strategies/questions
Fun Facts
100

What should you do the night before the STAAR test?

What is go to bed early.

100

 What lesson does the narrator learn while spending time with her grandmother?

What skill are you being asked to use in this sentence?


What is theme.

100

When year was the United States established?

What is 1776.

100

Which tone is represented in the following passage.

Wow! With a top speed of 150 mph, that car can almost fly!

What is excited, amazed.

100

What time does the bell ring for the end of the school day?

What is 4:01.

200

What should you bring when you take the STAAR test?

What is computer and charger.
200

What is another word for Climax in a plot diagram?

What is the turning point.

200

How many months in the year have 28 days?

What is 12 months.

200

What Brain in the Game strategy do we use when we analyze the questions?

What is highlight the key words.

200

What is the mascot for Bel Air High School?

What is a Highlander.

300

What should you eat the morning of the test?

What is a healthy breakfast.

300

Maddie loved to tell jokes. Making people laugh came easily to her, and it made her feel good. At school her friends were always listening to her jokes. Her family loved her wittiness and laughed along with her.

What character trait is Maddie displaying?

What is humor, funny.

300

It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. 

What is it?

What is your name.

300

They plan to kill General Washington. He closed the book, set it on the floor, and leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. Tell me everything you know. 

What is the tone in this paragraph?

What is serious, uncertain, grim, stressed. 

300

True or False.

 Cats are able to taste anything that is sweet.

What is False.

400

How many hours of sleep should you get the night before the test?

What is between 8 to 9 hours.

400

What is the formula to make an inference?

What is clues plus schema (prior knowledge) equals an inference.

400

There are 3 apples in the basket and you take away 2. How many apples do you have now?

What is You have 2 apples. 

You took away 2 apples and left 1 in the basket.

400

What strategy do we use for a fiction summary?

What is Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then.

400

True or False

You can sneeze while you are asleep.

What is False.

500

You get sleepy while testing. What is the best decision to make?

What is take a brain or bathroom break.

500

Nate wanted everything his older brother had. When his parents bought his brother new clothes, he wanted new clothes too. When his older brother went to the movies with his friends, Nate was angry.

What can you infer about Nate?

What is Nate is jealous of his brother.
500

It has keys, but no locks. It has space, but no room. You can enter, but can’t go inside. 

What is it?

What is a keyboard.

500

What is the process when working through a paired passage?

What is read the first set of questions then the first passage. Next read the second set of questions then read the second passage. Finally, answer the combined questions last.

500

If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. 

What is it?

What is a secret.

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