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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

How many parts are in the plot diagram?

5

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 characters, problem, and resolution

200
A group of lines in poetry.
What is stanza
200

What is the climax of the story?

What is the turning point?

300

What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?

What is eat a healthy breakfast

300

What you look for in a text to prove your answer?

What is text evidence?

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

John was an ox as he rolled the boulder up the hill

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 OR what is use the dictionary

400
Autobiographies and biographies are included in this category of non-fiction.
What is literary non-fiction
400

When the eruption of a volcano on November of 2013 resulted in a brand new island about a thousand kilometers south of Japan's capital Tokyo; experts were hesitant to declare that a permanent new landmass had been born.  That's because these kinds of volcanic island have a tendency to disappear almost as rapidly as they appear.  However, the newly born island ended up rising a mere 60-80 feet above the ocean, tripled in size, and has still shown no signs of disappearing.

The main conflict in this passage is:

A.  The island was expected to disappear.

B.  A volcano erupted.

C. Experts were wrong about the volcano.

What is A.  The island was expected to disappear.

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 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

An Egyptian man is inspiring millions of people around the world with his ping pong prowess.  However, it is not just his top-notch skills they are admiring, but also the way he plays the game.  He holds the paddle with his mouth because Ibrahim Hamato happens to have no arms!  Hamato says that when he lost his arms in an accident at the age of 10, he had no choice but to find another way to play his favorite sport.  

According to the text, prowess means:

A.  knowledge

B.  mastery 

C. secrets

What is mastery?