Testing Tips
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
What is Get plenty of sleep
How to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in paragraphs
What is context clues and use a dictionary to look-up the meaning
When it says, paragraph 3 is mainly about...
What is Main idea
Our campus mascot.
What is "moose"?
How much time do you have to take the STAAR test?
What is over 4 hours
A valuable test-taking strategy is to ___________ while you are reading.
What is write notes off to the side OR highlight? (Annotate)
A good fiction summary contains...
What is characters, problem, and resolution OR
Beginning, middle and ending?
The name of your superintendent
Who is Nate Carman?
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
What is eat a healthy breakfast
The best way to confirm your answers.
Go back to the text!
An article about the dangers of playing video games all day is this type of text.
What is informational text
These two STAAR tests you will take in sixth grade
What are Reading and math.
Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?
What is It demonstrates your mastery of skills in the 6th grade and is needed for PROMOTION to the next grade level
What strategy should you use when making the best answer choice?
What is process of elimination
The strategy for answering vocabulary context clue questions.
What is read the text for hints about the word OR what is use the dictionary
Autobiographies and biographies are included in this category of non-fiction.
What is literary non-fiction
When are you allowed to have your cell phones back during testing?
What is the end of the day?
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?
Where can you get a good 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
Steps to the RACE strategy.
Restate the question
Answer the question
Cite your evidence
Explain the evidence