Before Testing
What should you do the night before the STAAR test?
What is go to bed early.
What lesson does the narrator learn while spending time with her grandmother?
What skill are you being asked to use in this sentence?
What is theme.
When year was the United States established?
What is 1776.
Which tone is represented in the following passage.
Wow! With a top speed of 150 mph, that car can almost fly!
What is excited, amazed.
What time does the bell ring for the end of the school day?
What is 4:01.
What should you bring when you take the STAAR test?
What is another word for Climax in a plot diagram?
What is the turning point.
How many months in the year have 28 days?
What is 12 months.
What Brain in the Game strategy do we use when we analyze the questions?
What is highlight the key words.
What is the mascot for Bel Air High School?
What is a Highlander.
What should you eat the morning of the test?
What is a healthy breakfast.
Maddie loved to tell jokes. Making people laugh came easily to her, and it made her feel good. At school her friends were always listening to her jokes. Her family loved her wittiness and laughed along with her.
What character trait is Maddie displaying?
What is humor, funny.
It belongs to you, but your friends use it more.
What is it?
What is your name.
They plan to kill General Washington. He closed the book, set it on the floor, and leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. Tell me everything you know.
What is the tone in this paragraph?
What is serious, uncertain, grim, stressed.
True or False.
Cats are able to taste anything that is sweet.
What is False.
How many hours of sleep should you get the night before the test?
What is between 8 to 9 hours.
What is the formula to make an inference?
What is clues plus schema (prior knowledge) equals an inference.
There are 3 apples in the basket and you take away 2. How many apples do you have now?
What is You have 2 apples.
You took away 2 apples and left 1 in the basket.
What strategy do we use for a fiction summary?
What is Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then.
True or False
You can sneeze while you are asleep.
What is False.
You get sleepy while testing. What is the best decision to make?
What is take a brain or bathroom break.
Nate wanted everything his older brother had. When his parents bought his brother new clothes, he wanted new clothes too. When his older brother went to the movies with his friends, Nate was angry.
What can you infer about Nate?
It has keys, but no locks. It has space, but no room. You can enter, but can’t go inside.
What is it?
What is a keyboard.
What is the process when working through a paired passage?
What is read the first set of questions then the first passage. Next read the second set of questions then read the second passage. Finally, answer the combined questions last.
If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it.
What is it?
What is a secret.