Mr. Guerra’s STAAR/Benchmark Strategies

Question 1

When reading an autobiography or biography the main character usually...

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Did something extraordinary, Is recognized for something he/she did, Went through some sort of hardship, Did something to help their time or era

Question 2

Characteristics of Fiction include

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characters, a setting, and a plot sequence

Question 3

What is Text Evidence?

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Evidence found in the selection, Proofs and Facts found in a text

Question 4

What skill would you use to determine what the story is MOSTLY about?

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main idea

Question 5

When a question gives you a piece of the selection the answer is found...

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In that piece

Question 6

Main ideas in subtitles are found in...

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The paragraph, The Subtitle, 1st and last sentence of that paragraph

Question 7

What genre is this; has hardships and problem and solution.

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biography

Question 8

Why do we read fiction?

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because we want to be entertained

Question 9

How do we analyzed Literary texts?

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Answer the 5 Ws and How

Question 10

Which is an example of Onomatopoeia ?

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Boom! went the jet

Question 11

What is another example of non fiction?

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biography

Question 12

What is the author of a poem called?

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Poet

Question 13

To make it easier to find the summary in IFORMATIONAL texts i should...

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All of these

Question 14

When reading a biography, pay attention to...

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hardships that person faced

Question 15

Dialogue is..

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a conversation between characters in a passage

Question 16

A plot sequence has all of the following EXCEPT:

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Text structure

Question 17

What am I doing when I read and guess what the characters are doing?

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I am using inference

Question 18

Text Features are...

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photos,captions, graphs, recipes, or headings

Question 19

Main ideas are found in...

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All of these

Question 20

She sells sea shells by the seashore is an example of?

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Alliteration

Question 21

How does a character in a drama know what to do?

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because of stage directions

Question 22

Which is an example of Alliteration ?

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Petter Pipper Pizza is the Pizza People like.

Question 23

How do we analyzed Informational texts?

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Look at T, ST, TF, 1st and Last Paragraphs

Question 24

Why do we read the questions before reading the text?

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to set a purpose for reading, to know what to listen for as you read

Question 25

A real story about true events that follows a plot structure is called

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literary nonfiction

Question 26

In order to have a good summary about LITERARY texts it must...

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We must highlight/underline the last sentence of each summary, include info from beginning middle & end

Question 27

What are similes?

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Comparing to things using like or as

Question 28

When reading paired selections I need to...

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Compare how both selections are the same and/or different

Question 29

Why do we read expository text?

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because we want to learn about something new

Question 30

Expository is an example of

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An article about pollution, A text that gives information, A magazine about robots

Question 31

A theme of a text is....

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the lesson the author wants to teach you

Question 32

We use #hashtags# to

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To show we understood what we read, Remind ourselves of what we just read, To find main ideas

Question 33

How does reading the title help?

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so I know what/who the story is about, so I know the genre of text, so my brain can pull information that I know out

Question 34

Which is an example of rhyming?

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He ate late because he didn’t have a plate.

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