STAAR Reading
What is a group of lines called in a poem?
Stanza
Identify the type of imagery used here: The sweet aroma from the kitchen woke me from my slumber!
What is smell?
What do you do first before for each READING passage?
What is Read the DIRECTIONS.
What change should be made to the following sentence?
The Buddy Holly center is in downtown Lubbock.
Change center to Center
What do we click on first to get to the STAAR Test?
Apps - Secure Test Browser
When 2 characters have a conversation, this is called___________.
What is dialogue?
Fact or Opinion?
The best team won the game yesterday.
Opinion
How can you tell it's a revising and editing passage?
The sentences are numbered
What do you have to do for USAGE (word) changes?
What is try each word in the sentence.
What should you do when you are finished with your test?
Raise your hand for the teacher to check
The moral or lesson in the story
What is theme?
Identify the type figurative language used here:
The tree reached for the sky, trying to touch the stars.
What is personification?
What should you do with your test if you need to go to the bathroom?
Pause your test by clicking on the pause button.
What is EDITING?
Focuses on Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, and Spelling (CUPS)
What tool do you use for an unknown word?
What is Dictionary
What is the purpose of this imagery?
The children were tornadoes ripping through the house, tossing shoes, backpacks, and jackets around as they went.
To describe just how messy and chaotic the children were.
Pictures, captions, bold print, title, diagram, and sub headings are examples of _______________.
What are informational text features?
What's the procedure for paired passages?
Read first passage then, answer the questions
Read second passage then, answers the questions
Answer the crossover questions. (The questions that apply to the first and second passage.)
What is REVISING?
Refers to making the writing better: Add, Remove, Move, Substitute (ARMS)
Name 2 tools you can use when answering questions.
Strikethrough and highlighter
In drama, these help the reader "see" the scene. They are usually in parenthesis.
What are stage directions?
The solution to a story is called the _________.
What is resolution?
How many points is the ECR (extended constructed response) worth?
What is ten points
What is the BEST way to combine these sentences?
Bayless third graders will work hard and take their time. Bayless third graders will rock the STAAR test!
Bayless third graders will work hard, take their time, and rock the STAAR test!
Why does everyone need their headphones?
It will pronounce words from the dictionary, read directions and answer choices.