Genres
What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction?
Fiction is a made up story and nonfiction is facts and information.
What correction should we make to this sentence?
Last summer, my family went to visit my Aunt Hilda in alaska.
Capitalize Alaska.
What types of free response questions will you have on STAAR?
ECR and SCR
When and where a story takes place.
Setting
If you need something while testing you should-
Raise your hand quietly
I have a mountain of homework
This is an example of:
a) personification
b) alliteration
c) hyperbole
d) simile
c) hyperbole
What change, if any, should be made in the sentence? How would you get rid of a huge colony of bees!
How would you get rid of a huge colony of bees?
What 2 types of SCR questions are on the STAAR?
Revising and Reading Response
An organizational strategy where the events are arranged in the order they occur.
Chronological
What are some strategies for when you are feeling anxious or nervous during the test?
Take a break, take a breath, remind yourself of your strategies, skip over questions you really don't know and then go back later
If I am reading an informational text and I want to find what page a topic is located, where should I look?
Table of Contents
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence? I woked up and did not remember where I was.
I woke up and did not remember where I was.
How do you respond to a reading SCR question?
RACE
A collection of lines in a poem; kind of like a paragraph
Stanza
What strategy can you use to type a constructed response?
RACECER, write it down on paper first, highlight the prompt
The main idea can sometimes have a theme. Theme means...
A lesson or message that can be taken away from the story
What changes would you make to the make the sentence clearer or more interesting?
The dog ran fast.
The dog ran at lightning speed!
How do you respond to an ECR question?
RACECER
Give directions to the actors about how to act on stage
Stage directions
What can you use on the test if you don't know the meaning of a word?
Dictionary
The rabbit's long ears, which can be more than 10 cm (4 in) long, are probably an adaptation for detecting predators. They have large, powerful hind legs. The two front paws have 5 toes, the extra called the dewclaw. The hind feet have 4 toes.
The author's purpose is...
To give information about the characteristics of a rabbit
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence?
There was to much noise in the room for the baby to sleep.
There was too much noise in the room for the baby to sleep.
The person telling the story is a character inside the story who says "I, Me, My"
First person point of view
What tool can you use to help you focus on a word, sentence or paragraph?
Highlight tool