Strategies
Fiction
Informational
Poetry
Surprise...
100
This is in the story to help you understand.
Pictures / Photograph
100
What is fiction?
A story that is not real, made up.
100
What is informational?
Gives us informational. Teaches us real facts about the world.
100
What is poetry?
It has lines, stanzas and expresses feelings.
100
Which STAAR writing question is this for?
SCR
200
You can use this tool to focus on a sentence or word.
Highlight
200
What the story/paragraph is MOSTLY about.
Main idea
200
Found in an informational text to help you understand.
Text features
200
Give me an example of two rhyming words.
Cat
Hat
Bat
Rat
Pat
Sat
200
Which STAAR writing question is this for?
ECR
300
What do you do when you see these on STAAR?
CLICK ON IT!
300
You put together clues/evidence and your schema/background knowledge to make this.
Inference
300
What the story/paragraph is MOSTLY about.
Main idea
300
Essentially the sentences of a poem.
Lines
300
Can you use this on STAAR? Yes or no
YES
400
What is this tool on STAAR called?
Dictionary
400
Follows the story's events.
Plot
400
You put together clues/evidence and your schema/background knowledge to make this.
Inference
400
Essentially paragraphs of a poem.
Stanza
400
Can you use this on STAAR? Yes or no
Yes
500
You can use this to translate words on STAAR from english-spanish or spanish-english
Bilingual dictionary
500
A strategy to summarize or create a summary of what you read.
BME
SWBST
500
Text to self
Text to text
Text to world
Text connections
500
Writing that gives more emphasis to the poem - not meant to be literal, does not mean what it says.
Figurative language
500
What do you do when you see these on STAAR?
CLICK ON IT
