Testing Tips
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
Get plenty of sleep
Paragraph 3 is mainly about...
Main idea
What are the two questions you ask to determine main idea?
What is Who & What is the story mostly about?
In poetry, poems that do not rhyme, and don't follow a specific meter or pattern are called ______.
What is free-verse poetry?
What are context-clues?
Clues in the text that help us figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word
The reader can conclude that...
Using clues from the text and your schema...
Inference
A good fiction summary contains
All important events from the beginning, middle, and end of the story
How does a heading help the reader?
It tells them what the upcoming paragraph(s) are about.
What is a character?
A person in a book, movie, play, etc
Taylor thought the publisher had not read his book because ______.
Cause and effect
For sequence questions, you should always look for...
Where/when each event happened?
A fable typically has talking ______ and a _______ at the end.
What is animals and moral?
How many syllables are in the word juxtaposition?
What is 5?
When words like, yesterday, winter, or finally are used in a paragraph it helps the reader understand ...
the sequence of events
How do you go about answering context clue questions?
Go back to the text and read the sentences before and after the sentence the word is in
Fantasy is one ___genre of fiction.
In poetry a paragraph is equal to a ______ in a story?
What is a stanza?
The reader can tell Johnny is.....
Character Analysis
When you inference, what two things should you consider?
What you know + what is in the text A good inference must be based on the text
Non-fiction stories are _______.
What is true?
In a Non- Fiction story what text feature helps me see visually see and identify the parts of an object?
What is a diagram?