Testing Tips
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
What is get plenty of sleep
The 5Ws of NON-FICTION
Who, What, When, Where, Why
All FICTION is written with this in mind-- including rising action, climax and falling action. These are all elements of what?
What is a plot
Where did Mrs. Weaver go to college?
What is Texas A&M?
How much time do you have to take the test?
What is 4 hours
When completing the paired passage, what questions should you answer last?
What is the paired questions
A good FICTION summary contains
What is the beginning, middle, and end of the story and SCPS
What are the parts of TPCASTT?
What are title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shift, title and theme?
Mrs. Reeves favorite type of shoe is
What are crocs
How many questions are on the base test?
What is 44 questions?
What is the part/whole reading strategy?
What is read the questions first to see which ones are about a part or the whole text.
Prior knowledge + text evidence =
What is Inference
You are given an article about the dangers of playing video games all day. What genre of text is this?
What is NON-FICTION?
Where did Ms. A go to college?
What is TCU?
What should you do if you find yourself getting tired during testing?
What is take a brain break?
What strategy should be used to help you focus, process and comprehend what you read?
What is hashtag summaries
A good NON-FICTION summary contains
What is the beginning, middle, and end of the story and the WHO, WHAT, and WHY
“I sit down on the gorgeous plush red velvet bench…I run my fingers over it, realizing how long it has been since I felt anything so wonderful".
What is this an example of?
What is sensory language
What is my room number?
Room 221
What are three possibilities for the field questions?
What is an extra passage, an extra paired passage, or revising and editing?
How to determine the main idea
What is for each sentence of the paragraph that supports that answer choice, put a check mark.
or
What is the check mark strategy.
The meaning of the theme
What is the life lesson or universal truth of a story?
Caption, photograph, title, and map are all examples of
What are text features
The tallest assistant principal at Creekview
Who is Mrs. Stark