Question Purpose
The question is asking you to find this if it is worded like this: "What is the best way to describe what happened in this selection?"
What is a summary?
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
True or False: All 8th graders are required to take the 8th grade Reading STAAR.
True
When reading a question that specifies a certain paragraph, this is the most important thing a student should do.
What is go back to the text?
This word means adding human characteristics to animals or objects.
What is personification?
The question is asking you to find this, if it is worded like this: "The details in paragraph 5 support the idea that - "
What are supporting details?
Sensory language that appeals to our five senses.
What is imagery?
This is what tasks you can complete after finishing STAAR.
What is sitting silently or reading a book!
These words surround and help readers figure out the definition of unknown words.
What are context clues?
What is an antonym?
The question is asking you to find this, if it is worded like this: " Which idea does the author emphasize throughout the selection?"
What is main idea?
The author's feeling towards the subject matter in the text.
What is tone?
This the duration of the 68h grade Reading STAAR.
What is seven hours?
This word generally means the lesson the author wants the reader to take away from the story.
What is theme?
This figurative language exaggerates what is happening in the story for emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
The question is asking you to find this, if it is worded like this: "The author describes his experience in a way that highlights - "
What is author's purpose?
This point of view gives us insight only into the feelings and thoughts of the narrator.
What is first-person POV?
What do you want to achieve on the STAAR test?
What is approaches, meets, or masters?
These types of words/phrases help the author indirectly emphasize certain things in the story.
What is figurative language?
This word means comparing two things using "like" or "as".
What is simile?
If a question says it has Part A and Part B, how many questions and answers will the question have?
What is two questions and two answers?
This type of figurative language uses words with the same starting letter.
What is alliteration?
You have to be at school before 8:20 AM
True
The age of your ELA teacher.
What is you will never know?
What is the definition of theme in a story?
What is the message or lesson of the story?