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Poetry
Review
100
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
Get plenty of sleep Eat a good meal
100
Paragraph 3 is mainly about...
Main idea
100
What are the two questions you ask to determine main idea?
What is Who & What is the story mostly about?
100
Sentences and paragraphs in poetry are called_______.
What are lines and stanzas
100
What are context clues?
Clues in the text that help us figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word
200
How much time do you have to take the test?
4 hours
200
The reader can conclude that... The reader can tell...
Inference
200
A good summary contains
All important events from the beginning, middle, and end of the story(fiction) All important facts or main ideas (nonfiction)
200
She is as fast as lightning. This is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is a simile
200
CSPS is...
character, setting, problem, solution
300
When you have completed your entire test what should you do?
CHECK OVER IT!
300
Taylor thought the publisher had not read his book because...
Cause and effect
300
For sequence questions, you should always...
What is find where each event happened?
300
He's lost his marbles. This is an example of what?
What is a metaphor?
300
Headings in a story tell the reader...
What the section is mostly about
400
Writing blurbs next to each paragraph shows__________.
the main idea
400
When words like, yesterday, winter, or finally are used in a paragraph it helps the reader understand ...
the sequence of events
400
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
400
What a funny way To save the day What a funny way To come and play This a __________ poem?
What is rhyming or couplet?
400
Word parts at the beginning of a word are called... Give 2 examples
What is a prefix
500
What strategy should you use when making an answer choice?
Always read ALL the answer choices, eliminate ones you know are incorrect with an X, ? mark if it's a maybe, and check mark if it's the answer
500
The reader can tell Johnny is.....
Character Analysis
500
When you inference, what two things should you consider?
BK + TC = I A good inference must be based on the text
500
Narrative poems must include these elements...
What is CSPS character, setting, problem, solution
500
Captions, diagrams, photographs, and headings are all...
what are text features