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Testing Tips
Strategies
Question types
Genre
Wild Card
100

What should you do the night before the STAAR?

What is get plenty of sleep

100
How to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in paragraphs
What is context clues and use a dictionary to look-up the meaning
100

Paragraph 3 is mainly about...

What is central idea

100

All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax (problem) and falling action (solution).

What is a plot

100

What day will you be taking the ELA STAAR?

What is April 14th?

200

How much time do you have to take the test?

All Day

200

What is the strategy for a short constructed response?

R- Restate the question

A- Answer the question

C- Cite  text evidence

E- Explain text evidence

C- Cite  text evidence

E- Explain text evidence

200

A good FICTION summary contains

Important events in order without many details

OR

Character

Problem

Resolution

200
A group of lines in poetry.
What is stanza
200

Comparing two nouns by saying one IS the other.

What is a metaphor?

300
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
What is eat a healthy breakfast
300

What is the strategy for an extended constructed response?

RA

R1

R2

R3


R   (Same for all body paras)

C

E


RA

R1

R2

R3

Cute Closing

300

When the reader makes an educated guess...

What is Inference

300
An article about the dangers of playing video games all day is this type of text.
What is informational text
300

What STAAR tests do you take this year?

What is Reading, Math, and Science?

400

Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?

What is It demonstrates your mastery of skills in your grade level and is needed for PROMOTION to the next grade level

400

What strategy do you use to go through incorrect answer choices?

Process of Elimination

400

The strategy for answering vocabulary context clue questions.

What is read the text for hints about the word OR what is use the dictionary

400

A story that COULD take place today.

Realistic fiction

400

A strategy used to help analyze paired text?

*hint a diagram used to compare two things.

What is a venn diagram.

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

Where can you get a good idea (central idea) what a passage is about before you even read the passage?

What is the title.

500

The meaning of the theme

What is the moral, lesson, or message of the story?

500

Authors purposes serve three purposes

To persuade, inform, entertain

500

Which should you have during the test?

Water or soda?

What is water.