STAAR ReadingStrategy and Vocabulary Review

Question 1

Which of the following genres are tested by STAAR?

Accepted Answer

Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Non-Fiction, and Biography

Question 2

How many times should I read a poem?

Accepted Answer

2 times or more

Question 3

All poems have lines.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Non-Fiction summaries are organized just like the text.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Stage directions are

Accepted Answer

inside the [ ] and italicized

Question 6

Why are recipes or instructions included in Non-Fiction passages?

Accepted Answer

to provide steps on how to do something

Question 7

How is this section organized?

Accepted Answer

Solution

Question 8

Another word for talking

Accepted Answer

dialogue

Question 9

When I have this type of question, I should...

Accepted Answer

go back to the text, reread, and choose the correct meaning

Question 10

After I read it at least two times, I should analyze my poem by..

Accepted Answer

writing what each stanza means on the side, drawing a small picture, underlining important ideas, writing what it is about on the side

Question 11

A narrative poem

Accepted Answer

tells a story (order of events)

Question 12

The word section means the paragraphs under the

Accepted Answer

subtitle

Question 13

What do I do when I have answered all the questions on my STAAR test? (2 answers)

Accepted Answer

Make sure I bubbled everything right on my answer document, Reread each question and check my answer (have proof)

Question 14

Cause is the...

Accepted Answer

Why

Question 15

In a paired passage, we read both passages before the questions.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Skim this passage. What genre is it?

Accepted Answer

Non-Fiction

Question 17

How do I know when I have a paired passage?

Accepted Answer

The directions say Read the next two selections. at the top, When you have TWO passages back to back

Question 18

What strategy do we use on a Non-Fiction summary question?

Accepted Answer

Main Ideas

Question 19

A narrator

Accepted Answer

give details about the characters and their actions

Question 20

The authors purpose is the....

Accepted Answer

main idea + verb of the passage or paragraph

Question 21

When a Non-Fiction passage has a recipes or instructions, we should...

Accepted Answer

read them carefully because there will be a question on it

Question 22

Labeling how each paragraph is organized in a Non-Fiction passage will help us in the questions

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

A lyrical poem

Accepted Answer

rhymes

Question 24

TSLR stands for...

Accepted Answer

Type, Stanzas, Lines, Rhyme

Question 25

What genres are usually organized by sequence?

Accepted Answer

Only Fiction and Biographies

Question 26

All poems have stanzas.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 27

In a paired passage we read the...

Accepted Answer

All of the answers above in order

Question 28

An opinion is...

Accepted Answer

something you cannot prove

Question 29

A biography is organized in

Accepted Answer

sequence

Question 30

What are the types of poetry?

Accepted Answer

free verse, lyrical, narrative and humorous

Question 31

What strategy do we use for Fiction AND Biography summaries?

Accepted Answer

B,M,E

Question 32

A play always has a narrator

Accepted Answer

False

Question 33

Effect is the...

Accepted Answer

What happened

Question 34

Great way, beautiful, all people, and most important are key words that make it

Accepted Answer

an opinion

Question 35

Stage directions tell (2 answers)

Accepted Answer

how the characters should move or what to do, the setting at the beginning

Question 36

This poem was a lyrical poem with a personal account. So, can it be narrative as well?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 37

The most common element found in poetry is

Accepted Answer

repetition

Question 38

Non-Fiction summaries can be from the whole passage, a section, or paragraphs.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

What is another word for selection?

Accepted Answer

passage

Question 40

A free verse poem

Accepted Answer

does not rhyme

Question 41

Photographs are included in the passage only to show us what things look like.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 42

In Non-Fiction passages we underline the main idea of each paragraph.

Accepted Answer

True

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