Testing Tips
Question Types
Strategies
C.A.B.L.E. Strategy
Review
100
What you should do the night before the STAAR.
What is to get plenty of sleep?
100
Paragraph 3 is mainly about...
What is main idea?
100
The two questions you ask to determine main idea.
Who is the story mostly about? What is the story mostly about?
100
What the C stands for in the C.A.B.L.E. Strategy.
What is to Come up with the Purpose? Is the Passage to: P. - Persuade? I. - Inform? E. - Entertain? Locate Pictures and Bolded, Underlined, and/or Italicized Words.
100
Context Clues
What are clues in the text that help us figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word?
200
The amount of time you have to take the test.
What is 4 hours?
200
The reader can conclude that...
What is to infer, inference, or inferencing?
200
A good summary contains
What are all important events from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
200
What the A in the C.A.B.L.E. Strategy stands for and what do you do in this step.
What is Attain Background Knowledge (Schema Thinking Cloud)?
200
Character
Who is a person or animal in a book, movie, play, etc?
300
What you should do when you have completed your entire test.
What is to CHECK OVER IT CAREFULLY!!!
300
Taylor thought the publisher had not read his book because...
What is Cause and Effect?
300
For sequence questions, you should always...
What is to search and mark where each event happened and label it on the question and in the story?
300
What the B in the C.A.B.L.E. Strategy stands for and what you do in this step.
What is Begin Reading and Read again until you understand the passage?
300
The strategy used for summarizing when reading a fiction story. (Hint: The parts of a fictional story)
What is C.S.P.S.? Character Setting Problem/Goal Solution
400
A valuable test-taking strategy is to _______ ______ while you are reading.
What is TAKE NOTES?!
400
When words like, yesterday, winter, or finally are used in a paragraph it helps the reader understand ...
What are the sequence of events?
400
Answering context clue questions.
What is to go back to the text and read the sentences before and after the sentence the word is in?
400
What the L in the C.A.B.L.E. Strategy stands for and what you do in this step.
What is UnderLine the important parts and write the Main Idea for each section as you Read.
400
In poetry a paragraph is equal to a ______ in a story.
What is a stanza?
500
The strategy you use to choosing the correct answer in a question.
What is to always read ALL the answer choices, eliminate ones you know are incorrect, choose the BEST answer from the ones left?
500
The reader can tell Johnny is.....
Character Analysis
500
Two things you should consider when you inference.
What is "What you know (Schema)?" + "What is in the text?" A good inference must be based on the text.
500
What the E in the C.A.B.L.E. Strategy stands for and what you do in this step.
What is Evaluate the Question, Find Evidence, and Eliminate Answers?
500
In a Non-Fiction story where could I usually find the Main Idea (TEXT & GRAPHIC FEATURE).
What is a heading or subtitle?