STAAR
STAAR VERBS
LITERARY
INFORMATIONAL
STRATEGIES
100

The hours you have to complete the Reading STAAR Test.

What is 4 hours?

100

The meaning of convey.

What is "to tell or make known to the reader"?

100

The narrator is not part of the story and knows the feelings and thought of all character.

What is 3rd person point of view omniscient? 

100

The author provides readers with chronological events.

What is sequence/chronological order?

100

The strategy that helps you summarize what you read.

What is the (WHO and WHAT)?

200
The percentage needed to pass the Reading STAAR test.

What is 57%?

200

The meaning of infer.

What is "to come to an opinion by reasoning from facts of observations"?

200

A turning point, the highest point in a story.

What is Climax?

200

The organization of informational writing.

What is organizational patterns?

200

The strategy you do before reading the text next to the title.

What is the GAP strategy?

300

The percentage to meet Masters in the Reading STAAR test.

What is 87%?

300

The meaning of prefix.

What is "adding letters to the beginning of a word to adjust it's meaning?

300

The sequence of events that make up a story.

What is the plot?

300

Proof in the writing to explain answers.

What is textual evidence?

300

The strategy you do to eliminate answers.

What is process of elimination?

400

The four STAAR test performance standards.

What is Masters, Meet, Approaches, and Did Not Meet?

400

The meaning of emphasize.

What is "to give special attention to"?

400

The reason for or intent in writing of an author.

What is Author's Purpose?

400

Factual writing about real people, places, event, ideas, or things.

What is NonFiction?

400

The strategy use for character traits.

What is STEALS?

500

The date for the 2022 STAAR Reading Test.

What is May 11?

500

The meaning of sensory language.

What is "words or phrases that appeal to your 5 sense"?

500

The denouement of a literary text.

What is "the final part of a play, movie, or narrative".

500

The text is mostly about. 

What is Controlling Idea?

500

The Strategy used for analyzing a poem.

What is the SWIFT strategy?