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Testing Tips
Strategies
Question types
Genre
Wild Card
100

What should you do the night before the STAAR?

Get plenty of sleep

100

How to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in paragraphs

1. use the embedded dictionary to look-up the meaning
2. Context clues

100

What type of question is this:

"What is the best way to combine sentences 14 & 15?"

Revising

100
All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action.
What is a plot
100

What type of questions will ask you to make changes in a text to take it from good to great?

Revising

200

How much time do you have to take the test?

All Day

200

A valuable test-taking strategy is to ___________ while you are reading.

annotate

200

A good summary contains

Somebody
Wanted
But
So
Then-- Spoil the ending!

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

Comparing two things without using "like" or "as.

What is a metaphor?

300

What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?

Eat a healthy breakfast

300

You're mid-test and realize you've been looking at the words but not really reading them. What should you do?

Re-read the passage for understanding

Take a break-- look out the window or take a walk. Then return and try again. 

300

When the reader uses background knowledge to create understanding

Inferencing

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

Why does a poet sometimes use very short lines?

for emphasis/to emphasize

400

Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?

It demonstrates your mastery of skills in the 8th grade and is needed for PROMOTION to the next grade level

400

What strategy should you use when making the best answer choice?

Process of elimination
or Dumb, Dumb, Tricky and True?


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 about history written with different characters.

Historical fiction

400

Why does a poet sometimes use repeated words

for emphasis/to emphasize
500

What should you leave at home or be prepared to give to a teacher or test proctor before the test?

Cell phones or electronic devices?

500

Where can you sometimes get a good idea what a passage is about before you even read the passage? Especially true for informational and argumentative texts.

the title

500

The meaning of the theme

What is the moral of the story is, or the life lesson

500

Authors purposes serve three purposes

TO Persuade, inform, entertain

500

What type of question is this?

"What change, if any, should be made in sentence 6?"

Editing