Testing Tips
Strategies
Revising and Editing
Genres
Wild Card
100

What should you do the night before Mock STAAR?

What is get plenty of rest?

100

How to determine the meaning of unknown words in paragraphs?

What is context clues and use a dictionary to look up the meaning?

100

What does CUPS stand for?

What is capitalization, usage, punctuation, and spelling?

100
All FICTION texts are written with this in mind and includes rising action, climax, and falling action.

What is plot?

100

This strategy will be ungraded. If you do not complete them, Mr. Avina will haunt you in your nightmares.

What are scratch paper annotations?

200

How much time do you have to complete the Mock STAAR?

What is all day if needed?

200

What must you complete in order to better comprehend the questions and lead to the answers? 

What are scratch paper annotations?

200

What does ARMSC or SCRAM stand for?

What is add, remove, move, substitute, and combine?

200

A paired passage has three types of questions.

What are questions about the first text, questions about the second, and questions about both?

200

The single best teacher on campus who won the Core Value Award for We Achieve Academic Excellence, Teacher Leader of the Month for October, and future Master Teacher.

Who is Mr. Avina?

300

What should you do the morning before Mock STAAR?

What is eat a healthy breakfast?

300

What strategy do we use to answer Short Constructed Responses?

What is RAC?

300

Billy would like to revise his essay to engage the readers more. Which part of the essay would he revisit?

What is the hook?

300

An article talks about the invention of a product in chronological order is this type of text.

What is expository?

300

This is step 1 for completing scratch paper annotations.

What is label the passage, genre, and thinking jobs?

400

Why is Mock STAAR so important or what does it tell your teachers?

What is it predicts how you will preform on STAAR?

400

What should a correct answer be able to have?

What is text evidence to support it?

400

What is an extraneous sentence?

What is a sentence that is not needed or extra information?

400

Authors purpose serves three purposes.

What is to persuade, inform, or entertain?

400
This skill requires you to infer why something was added, something was done, or why something was written the way it was in a text.

What is author's purpose?

500

What should you leave at home or be prepared to give to a teacher or test proctor before the test?

What are cell phones or electronic devices?

500

What is the thesis of an essay?

What is the answer to the prompt and roadmap for the essay?

500

A question asks to improve the clarity of a sentence. What does clarity refer to?

What is the specificity of words used in the sentence?

500

This element of Fiction texts is important because it determines how little or much we know about situations.

What is point of view?
500
What is the structure of an argumentative text?

What is HOT PEECL PEECL TRY?