Scoring
You will receive a score for this many categories.
What is six?
Most students will have this much time to finish the test.
What is five hours?
There are this many multiple choice questions.
What is 52?
the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic
What is theme?
a punctuation mark indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma
What is a semicolon?
This category is 50% of your total STAAR score.
What is reading?
You will get your phones back at this time.
What is 315pm?
You will write this type of essay.
What is persuasive (argumentative)?
the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc
What is tone?
when two or more independent clauses (also known as complete sentences) are connected improperly
What is a run-on (sentence)?
This category is 24% of your total STAAR score.
What is composition (the essay)?
There will not be an announcement for this at 320pm
What is athletes leaving for Plano Senior?
You will find questions about spelling, capitalization, and verb tense in this section.
What is editing?
deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
What is infer?
These three things are used in writing to mark these comments as extra-information or as an interruption to the sentence.
What are commas, dashes, and parentheses?
These two categories are each worth 13% of your total STAAR score.
What are revising and editing?
In addition to testing, you will do this in your classroom.
What is eat lunch?
On what section will you find questions about literary devices, theme, and archetypes.
What is reading?
the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid
What is evidence?
a way of planning the structure of your essay before you start writing
What is an outline?
This section of the STAAR will not exist in the same way next year as it does currently.
What is composition (the essay)?
You can't have this during lunch, but you can have it after you finish testing.
What is a book?
You will find questions about diction in this section.
What is revising?
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
What is connotation?
pieces of sentences that have become disconnected from the main clause
What is a (sentence) fragment?