Testing Tips
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
What is Get plenty of sleep
How to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in paragraphs
What is context clues and use a dictionary to look-up the meaning
Paragraph 3 is mainly about...
What is Main idea
All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action.
What is a plot
What day and date will you be taking the Reding STAAR?
When is Tuesday April, 14th
How much time do you have to take the test?
All Day
A way to put information in your own words.
What is paraphrase?
To tell a shortened version of what happened only giving the important details
what is summerize
A group of lines in poetry.
What is stanza
Comparing two things by saying one thing is another thing.
Example: Barkley, the dog, is a lightning bolt when his food bowl is filled.
What is a metaphor?
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
What is eat a healthy breakfast
Name one STAAR testing strategy
What is Re-read the passage for understanding
What is find the skills
What is read the questions first
What is find the evidence
What is eliminate 2 answer choices
When the reader makes an educated guess...
What is Inference
An article about the dangers of playing video games all day is this type of text.
What is informational text
To describe using the 5 senses
What is imagery?
Why is the STAAR test important to you the students?
answers may vary
What strategy should you use when making the best answer choice?
What is process of elimination or Go with your gut/first instinct.
The strategy for answering vocabulary context clue questions.
What is read the text for hints about the word OR what is use the dictionary
A story about someone’s life
What is a biography
A strategy used to help analyze paired text?
What is a Venn Diagram, the circles, or Compare/Contrast
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?
Where can you get a good idea what a passage is about before you even read the passage?
What is the title and or looking at the images/visuals.
The meaning of the theme
What is the moral of the story, or the life lesson
Authors purpose serve what purposes
TO Persuade, inform, explain, entertain, describe
The 5 text structures
What is compare/contrast, problem/solution, description, chronological order, cause and effect