STAAR REVIEW

If your reading passage is Non-fiction, you must figure out the

The wind was whispering my name as it blew through the trees. This is an example of ________

 a pattern of nonfiction text in which ideas are presented step by step

What is the 1st step in taking the STAAR test? 

list key points or information in a brief, organized way

How many test strategies are there?

The reason the characters act or think the way they do

Describes or explains a picture or photograph to help the readers understand the picture

To target the text you must decide if the reading passage is 

An author's intent in writing a literary work ( persuade, inform , etc. )

a problem or stuggle that takes place in a story

 nonfiction text where the relationship between an event and the reasons why the event occurred

THis signals that a word is important

An arrangement of information in columns or rows

The use of descritptive words that appeal to the senses

This the general feeling that the READER gets while reading

the lesson of a myth or folktale

Illustrations with labels that describe something or shows how it works

Events that help predict what will happen later in a story

Writing of a person's life that is told by someone else

The major division in a play is called ____________

The perspective from which the story is told is called

If your reading passage is Fiction, you must figure out the...

What is the 2nd step in the STAAR testing strategy?

The 5 W's are

an expression used in a language that is not meant to be taken literally

In persuasion, ideas that appeal to the heart

the end, the resolution or conclusion. How the conflict is solved

the writers attitude toward teh material and/or readers.

a poetry paragraph

A long speech that a character makes to another character

The narrator is an outsider that can see the minds of all the characters

If anyone sees me dressed like this I will die. This is an example of ___________

a part in a story that describes something that happened in the past

What is the 3rd step in the STAAR test strategy? 

The words that give the actors instructions about what to do in a play

THis is an example of: Carrie is a magnet for trouble.

this has something from the beginning, middle and end of the story

Figurative language that is a comparison using like or as

Anything that can represent something else.

the words that are spoken by the actors in a play