Testing Tips
What should you do the night before the STAAR?
Get plenty of sleep
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
What are the three types of the third-person point of view?
Our campus mascot.
Tiger
How much time do you have to take the test?
All Day
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 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 should you start with when they say "You may now begin your test"
What are the 5 components of a plot?
Exposition, rising action, climax/turning point, falling action, resolution
Another name for main idea.
Central Idea/Controlling Idea
What day will you be taking the ELA STAAR?
April 8th
What strategy do you use when writing a short-constructed response
RACE
What is a theme?
The moral/lesson the reader learns from a story.
Authors' purposes serve three purposes.
To persuade, inform, or entertain
What strategy do you use when writing an extended-constructed response?
RACES