STAAR Reading Review

Testing Tips

100

What should you do the night before the STAAR?

What is Get plenty of sleep

200

How much time do you have to take the test?

All Day

300

What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?

What is eat a healthy breakfast

400

What does annotate mean and how does it help you?

To highlight and take notes about important information as your read. It helps you understand the story better and feel more prepared to answer questions.

500

What should you do if you are stuck on a question?

Mark it for review, and then come back to it later

OR see which choice you can find the most evidence for

Strategies

100

How to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in paragraphs

What is context clues and use a dictionary to look-up the meaning

200

What is the strategy for a short constructed response?

R-Restate the question

A-Answer the question

C- Cite or COPY text evidence

E- Explain text evidence

300

What do you annotate for when reading a fiction story?

Characters

Setting 

Problem/Solution

Theme

400

What do you annotate for when reading a narrative non-fiction story?

Character

Setting

Problem/Solution

Main idea/Supporting details

Theme

500

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

The first and last paragraphs

Question types

100

Paragraph 3 is mainly about...

What is Main idea

200

A good FICTION summary contains

Somebody

Wants

But 

So

 Then

300

How does the author use paragraph 3 to support main idea of the article?

Author's Purpose

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

500

The meaning of the theme

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

Genre

100

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

What is a plot

200

A group of lines in poetry.

What is stanza

300

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

What is informational text

400

A true story.

Narrative Non-Fiction

500

What do you annotate for when reading an informational text?

Text Features

Text Structure/Organization

Author's Purpose 

Vocabulary/Context Clues

Main Idea and Supporting Details

Wild Card

100

What does Ms. LaMore say to do before you read the answer choices?

TRY TO ANSWER THE QUESTION YOURSELF

200

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

What is a metaphor?

300

Name at least 3 text structures:

Compare/Contrast

Cause and Effect

Problem and Solution

Chronological

400

Name at least 3 text features:

Heading

Table of Contents

Photograph

Illustration

Diagram/Graph/Chart

Map

Glossary

Index

Bold Words

500

How do you tell the difference between when to write and SCR vs ECR? 

SCR will have a text box and ask for evidence to support your answer, and an ECR will have a bulleted list of instructions for you to follow.