Testing Tips
Unfamiliar Words
Author's Purpose
Question Types/ Stategies
Strategies
100
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
What is eat a good dinner and get to bed early?
100
What are homographs?
What is multiple meaning words
100
Junk-food ads and fast-food ads should be banned from kids’ TV channels. The ads make kids want to eat foods that are bad for them. The average child eats fried food often when he or she should be eating more fruits and vegetables.
What is to persuade?
100
What type of question is: Paragraph 3 is mainly about...
What is Main Idea?
100
What is our stategy for solving sequence of events boxes?
What is go back and find where each event took place and write down the paragraph numbers, then see which answer choice fits the empty box?
200
How much time do you have to take the test?
What is 4 hours?
200
What does the C stand for in CDLR?
What is Context Clues?
200
Chimere immediately closed her eyes and concentrated. She knew exactly what she needed to do. Once she was in the dream world, she would travel to her mother’s dream and speak with her. She had to warn her mother.
What is entertain?
200
What type of question is: The poet uses these lines mainly to show that the speaker —
What is inferencing?
200
What should you be looking for when asked to find an antonym for a specific word?
What is opposite?
300
When you have completed your entire test what should you do?
What is check over it?
300
What does the D stand for in CDLR?
What is describing?
300
Stop buying bottled water! About fifty billion plastic water bottles are purchased each year, and so much of that plastic is just ending up in our nation’s landfills. America’s water fountains are among the best in the world. Use those instead.
What is persuade?
300
What should you circle when breaking down the question: What does the word furtunate mean in paragraph 1?
What is paragraph 1?
300
What should you be looking for when asked to find a synonym of a specific word?
What is the same?
400
A valuable test-taking strategy is to ___________ while you are reading.
What is to take notes?
400
What does the L stand for in CDLR?
What is Listing?
400
“Do you need help with your garden?” Rabbit asked Bear. “No!” Bear answered. “I am doing fine on my own.” Rabbit looked doubtful but, not wanting to anger Bear, left him alone.
What is entertain?
400
How should you manage your time when taking the test?
What is average about 48 minutes per passage?
400
What stategy should you use for summarizing a fictional text?
What is SWBST?
500
What process should you use when making an answer choice?
What is the process of elimination?
500
What does the R stand for in CDLR?
What is Replace?
500
Did you know that there are frogs that can fly? Well, perhaps glide is the more proper word to use. Wallace’s flying frogs have membranes between their toes and skin flaps along their sides that catch air as they fall and allow them to glide.
What is to inform?
500
What is the earliest time you should bubble in your scantron?
What is 12:30?
500
What strategy should you use to summarize a non-fictional text?
What is 3 word blurb, underline important information, main idea, and BME?