Testing Tips and other
Should You include RACES or Intro Body 1, 2 Conclusion in your writing or just write your answer?
Just your answer without any of that! If you do you will receive a 0.
How can you determine the meanings of unfamiliar words while you are taking the test? What should you do if you don't have one?
Use context clues and use the dictionary. Remember also ask for one if you don't have a physical copy.
When it says, "Paragraph 3 is mainly about ___", what are you looking for?
Main idea
All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action.
Plot
What is a thesis and where should it go ?
How much time do you have to take the test?
All Day, Review and Review !
Should you read the stories and how many times should you?
Before reading the questions; after you read the questions, and to check your answers at the end. 3.
The author's feeling/attitude towards the subject matter in the text.
Tone
Where a line ends in a poem.
Line Break.
A phrase that is not taken literally.
Idiom
What should you do first in the test?
Do the Essay.
When reading a question that specifies a certain paragraph, this is the most important thing a student should do.
Go back to the text!
When you use background knowledge + clues from the text.
Inference
An article about the evolution of technology over time is written in this type of text structure.
Sequence/Chronological
If you need help in the revise and edit part of your test or to check your grammar, where should you go to?
Dictionary to the very back.
What is the purpose of the STAAR test?
It gives students an opportunity to show your mastery of skills in the 6th grade and tells us you are ready for 7th grade.
What strategy should you use when making the best answer choice?
Eliminate answer choices.
What is the sequence of events
Plot
Another name for main idea.
Central Idea/Controlling Idea
What should I use my scratch paper for ?
Notes, writing your essay draft, graphic organizer, plan your essay.
If confused in the introduction or any part of the essay should you skip it (not write anything) or at least do something? 4 things
Thesis - Most important part
Evidence
Explanation
Conclusion
Where can you get a good idea what a passage is about before you even read the passage?
Text features such as the title, images, etc.
What is a theme?
The moral/lesson/message the reader learns from a story.
Authors purposes serve three purposes.
To persuade, inform, entertain
What is the essay format and can you explain it?
Introduction: Hook, Background Info, Thesis
Body paragraph 1 and 2: Topic Sentence, Evidence, and Explanation
Conclusion: Thesis restated and something to give the reader to think about.