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Short Answer
Response
SAR Rubric
Figurative Language
Academic Vocabulary
100
This is the "B" part of the Short Answer response.
What is your "because" or the original, reasonable idea of your response?
100
The score when a response is missing an "idea" or has no answer.
What is a Score Point 0?
100
A comparison made between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".
What is simile?
100
Details that support your opinion or statement. Quotations should be used as evidence, not as a summary.
What is textual evidence?
200
This is "A" of the Short Answer Response.
What is starting your answer by restating the question?
200
When a connecting selection short answer response has evidence from only one text.
What is Score Point 1?
200
A comparison made using the word "is".
What is a metaphor?
200
An educated guess made using text evidence and personal background knowledge.
What is making an inference?
300
Provides support for A+B by using evidence/quotes from the text.
What is P?
300
When a single selection has a reasonable answer and textual evidence that supports it.
What is Score Point 2?
300
When an inanimate object is given human like qualities.
What is personification?
300
An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.
What is tone?
400
The name of a short answer response that requires the reader to read one text.
What is a Single Selection Short Answer Response?
400
Strongly linked evidence and showing a deep understanding of the text will get you a . . .
What is Score Point 3?
400
When exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
When the opposite happens from what is expected.
What is irony?
500
The name of a short answer response that requires the reader to read two texts.
What is a Connecting Selection Short Answer Response?
500
A guide that breaks down the STAAR scoring of the short answer response.
What is the STAAR Short Answer Response rubric?
500
Words whose sounds reveal their meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Hints at something that will occur later in a story.
What is foreshadow?