Testing Tips
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
Get plenty of sleep
How can you determine the meanings of unfamiliar words while you are taking the test?
Use context clues and use the dictionary tool.
When it says, "Paragraph 3 is mainly about ___", what are you looking for?
Main idea
All FICTION are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action.
Plot
Our campus mascot.
Cougar
How much time do you have to take the test?
All Day
What kind of diagram should you use to help analyze paired text?
Venn Diagram
The author's feeling/attitude towards the subject matter in the text.
Tone
Where a line ends in a poem.
Line Break.
A phrase that is not taken literally.
Idiom
What should you do the morning of the STAAR test?
Eat a healthy breakfast
When reading a question that specifies a certain paragraph, this is the most important thing a student should do.
Go back to the text!
When you use background knowledge + clues from the text.
Inference
An article about the evolution of technology over time is written in this type of text structure.
Sequence/Chronological
What STAAR tests you will take this year in 6th grade?
Reading and Math
What is the purpose of the STAAR test?
It gives students an opportunity to show your mastery of skills in the 6th grade and tells us you are ready for 7th grade.
What strategy should you use when making the best answer choice?
Process of elimination
What is the sequence of events
Plot
Another name for main idea.
Central Idea/Controlling Idea
What day will you be taking the ELA STAAR?
April 9th
What is the question asking you to find if it is worded like this: "The details in paragraph 5 support the idea that - "
Supporting Details/Text Evidence
Where can you get a good idea what a passage is about before you even read the passage?
The title.
What is a theme?
The moral/lesson the reader learns from a story.
Authors purposes serve three purposes.
To persuade, inform, entertain
What are the two elements that form a thesis?
Claim + Reasons