Analyzing Questions
This is when you choose an answer that includes important details. It needs to include the beginning, middle, and end.
What is a summary?
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
I can use the imbedded dictionary at any point during the STAAR.
True
When reading a question that specifies a certain paragraph, this is the most important thing a student should do.
What is go back to the text?
This word is a word that means the same or is similar to another word.
What is synonym?
The question asks.. What could be the lesson learned from this passage?
We need to identify....
The Theme
Language that appeals to our five senses.
What is imagery or sensory language?
List two testing strategies we can use to help ourselves when reading and answering questions on the STAAR
Use TQRAP
Cross out ridiculous answers
Read the questions before the selection
Marking the text/Annotating
Looking up unknown words and vocab
These words surround and help readers figure out the definition of unknown words.
What are context clues?
Things that stand out in the selection outside of the printed text to help us better understand what we are reading.
What is text features.
The question is asking you to find what: " what is the story mostly about?"
What is main idea?
What is inference?
I should use my scratch paper to write down my thoughts when annotating.
True or False
TRUE
This word generally means the lesson the author wants the reader to take away from the story.
What is theme?
List the commonly known authors purpose's for writing
persuade
inform
entertain
(explain)
The question is asking you to find why the author writes the text.
What is author's purpose?
This point of view gives us insight only into the feelings and thoughts of the narrator.
What is first-person POV?
What strategy do we use for short constructed response questions?
What is RAP (restate, answer, prove)?
These types of words/phrases are not literal they are ________. (The opposite of literal.)
What is figurative language?
What are two words that are synonyms for problem and solution?
What is conflict and resolve?
When reading the questions, we need to highlight or underline what information?
Key ideas about what the question is asking
locations such as paragraphs, sentences, stanzas, or lines
What parts is a drama or play broken into?
What is scenes?
What strategy do we use when answering extended constructed response questions (ECR)?
What is RACE (restate, answer, cite evidence, explain).
What are the steps in TQRAP?
Tile/Text features, Questions, Read, Answer, Prove.
Language that describes something as different from its actual, or literal meaning.
What is Figurative Language?