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Genres
Reading Strategies
Overview of the Test
Things to know
Test Preparation
100
Stage directions, characters' names, special formatting
What is a drama?
100
60 seconds
What is how long it should take to preview the text?
100
4-5
What is how many single passages there will be on the STAAR?
100
What is needed in order to have an effective summary?
What is beginning, middle, and end?
100
The NIGHT before the test
What is getting a good night's rest?
200
Probably short lines, stanzas
What is a poem?
200
3 to 5 sentence summary
What is an after reading strategy?
200
19 multiple-choice
What is how many informational text questions there will be?
200
To make an educated guess
What is to infer?
200
The MORNING of the test?
What is getting a healthy breakfast?
300
A picture, subject's name and about one person
What is a biography?
300
Ask a question
What is setting a purpose for reading?
300
50 multiple choice
What is how many questions there will be on the STAAR?
300
The big picture
What is the theme?
300
25-30 minutes
What is how much time you should take for each passage?
400
May look like expository but will be shorter
What is persuasive text?
400
Check your understanding
What is during reading strategies?
400
1 single selection or paired selection
What is the possible field test passage?
400
Author's Purpose
What is entertain, purpose and inform?
400
A book or taking a nap
What are your options after testing?
500
May look like a story, always in first person
What is an essay?
500
A-Possibility B- Not likely C- Maybe D- Not likely
What is "It says, I say, And So"
500
21 multiple choice questions
What is how many literary text questions there will be on the STAAR?
500
This is what you need in order to verify your answers.
What is text evidence?
500
4 hours
What is the length of the test?