Testing Tips
Strategies
Question types
Genre
ECR
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

The first step when writing your ECR

What is create your thesis by restating the prompt ?

200

How much time do you have to take the test?

What is all day

200

A valuable test-taking strategy is to ___________ while you are reading.

What is Annotate ?

200

A good summary contains

What is characters, problem, and resolution

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

Grammar , Punctuations , Spelling

What is Conventions ?

300
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
What is eat a healthy breakfast
300

The first step when you get to questions for a passage 

What is highlight key terms in question ?

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

How much is the ECR worth

What is 51 % ?

400
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?
400

What do you always need to provide for every answer choice selected ?

What is evidence ?

400
The meaning of the theme
What is the moral of the story is, or the life lesson
400

CPR And SBWBST stand for and are...

What is Character Problem Resolution and Somebody Wanted But So Then. They are both strategies for summary.

400

What do SCR and ECR stand for?

What is short constructed response and extended constructed response.
500

Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?

What is It demonstrates your mastery of skills in the 8th grade 

500
What strategy should you use when making the best answer choice?
What is process of elimination
500

The strategy for answering vocabulary questions.

What is read the text for context OR what is use the dictionary ?

500
Autobiographies and biographies are included in this category of non-fiction.
What is literary non-fiction
500

The structure of ECR is 

What is Thesis , Subtopic 1 , Evidence , Subtopic 2 , Evidence , Conclusion ?