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Poems are organized by...
What is synthesizing?
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What is synthesizing?
The same as summarizing
Paraphrasing the selection in your own words and opinions
Oral Reading
Proving your answers
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Poems are organized by...
lines and stanzas
sentences
Paragraphs
words only
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Why do I go back to the text after each question?
To prove my answers using the text evidence
To re-read
Because I don't know the answer
To skim
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Which one is a Simile?
She thundered into the room
When pigs fly
He was as tall as a building
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What does "conclude" mean?
To tell
To tell what happens next or the outcome
To experiment
To find the main idea
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What is dialect?
The way in which people speak based on where they live
figurative language
foreign language
similes
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What is imagery?
A literary device that causes the reader to use their senses
figurative language
idioms
lots of metaphors
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What does "convey" mean?
to summarize
to answer
to tell
to take
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What is a good strategy when taking the STAAR?
Go to the bathroom every 30 min
Pace yourself and use your time wisely
Ask your neighbor for help
Use a mechanical pencil
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What should you do if you do not know an answer on the STAAR?
Guess
Use your strategies and read carefully and do your best
Ask the person next to you
Ask the teacher
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What should you do the night before the STAAR?
Get a good night's sleep
Study
Stay up all night
Have a sleep over
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What are context clues?
clues for the plot summary
literary devices
dictionary definitions
Other words that help with the meaning of a difficult word
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What is summarizing?
Pulling out the main idea and some supporting details
Retelling the story in your own words
Using your topic sentences
The same as synthesizing
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What is a distracter?
Guided practice
The correct answer
A trick
Right information but does not answer the question
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What is first person?
The best person
Author talking about another person
Told by the author about him or herself
A story about 1 person
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What should you do the morning of the STAAR?
Skip breakfast
Go to IHOP
Be on time
Sleep late
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Why bother with proving your answers?
Because you are bored and it's fun
Because you need to use up your 4 hours of testing
Who cares I know I'm right
To make sure you are correct using text evidence to support
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What is crunching?
The sound doritoes make
Summarizing the entire passage on the back of the selection
Highlighting
Summarizing each paragraph or section in the margins
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When would a question ask you to compare or contrast information?
In persuasive text only
In a difficult question
In a paired reading selection
In expository text only
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What is the first thing you should be once you begin your STAAR reading selection?
Re-read
Prove
Crunch
Skim
