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paired text
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What should you do the night before the STAAR?
What is Get plenty of sleep
100
What should you do to unfamiliar words in paragraphs?
What is circle the word 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
Which sentence from the story relates a similar idea?
What is (H) Behind my drum set was the one place I felt completely like myself.
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 your WHO and WHAT for each paragraph?
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
Cassie in "Finally Home" and the speaker in "Thumbprint" both-
What is (G) recognize their own uniqueness
300
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
What is eat a healthy breakfast
300
What is the OVERALL reading strategy?
What is complete the 2 text in the front then the 2 text in the back, take a short break and tackle the middle 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
Unlike the speaker in "Thumbprint", Cassie in "Finally Home" expresses-
What is (D) a fear of being judged
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 an answer choice?
What is Always read ALL the answer choices, eliminate the 2 you know are incorrect, choose the BEST answer from the the 2 left
400
How do you go about answering context clue questions?
What is Go back to the text and read the sentences before and after the sentence the word is in and use a DICTIONARY
400
Autobiographies and biographies are included in this category of non-fiction.
What is literary non-fiction
400
One difference between Cassie in the story and the speaker in the poem is that the speaker-
What is (G) embrace the qualities that makes her different from everyone else
500
How many questions do yo need to answer correctly to pass the STAAR test?
What is 29 questions
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
How do you determine the theme?
What is Ask what 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
Which line from the poem best expresses Cassie's feelings at the end of the story?
What is (A) I am myself,