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Testing Tips
Strategies
Question types
Genre
Wild Card
100
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
What is Get plenty of sleep
100
How to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in paragraphs
What is context clues and use a dictionary to look-up the meaning
100
Paragraph 3 is mainly about...
What is Main idea
100
All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action.
What is a plot
100

What is the author of a drama called?

Who is a playwright?

200
How much time do you have to take the test?
What is 4 hours
200
A valuable test-taking strategy is to ___________ while you are reading.
What is write notes off to the side?
200
A good summary contains
What is All important events from the beginning, middle, and end of the story
200
A group of lines in poetry.
What is stanza
200

What is it called when a non-human object or thing has human characteristics?

What is personification?

300
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
What is eat a healthy breakfast
300
What is the "whole text" reading strategy?
What is read the questions first to see which ones are about the whole text.
300
The reader can conclude that...
What is Inference
300
An article about the dangers of playing video games all day is this type of text.
What is informational text
300

"They sat at the edge of the volcano, waiting for their mother to erupt" is an example of what type of figurative language?

What is a metaphor?

400
Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?
What is It demonstrates your mastery of skills in the 8th grade and is needed for PROMOTION to high school
400
What strategy should you use when making the best answer choice?
What is process of elimination
400
The strategy for answering vocabulary context clue questions.
What is read the text for hints about the word.
400
Autobiographies and biographies are included in this category of non-fiction.
What is literary non-fiction
400

What are small pieces of unimportant information that should not be included in summaries?

What are details?

500
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?
500
Where can you get a good idea what a passage is about before you even read the passage?
What is What is the title.
500
The meaning of the theme
What is the moral of the story is, or the life lesson
500
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing as they say their lines.
What is stage direction
500

What are the two most important things that you should do to answer a short answer question?

What is answer the question and cite evidence from the text?