SAENZ, Reading CBA 3 (Question Breakdown)

Reading CBA 3 (Question Breakdown)

Reading STAAR Questions

• YOU must ask yourself 2 questions

• Where am I going to look?

• What am I looking for?

Read the questions

and highlight WHERE you will be looking and WHAT you will be looking for.

Multiple Choice

WHAT am I looking for?

• answer choice: that talks about a picture

• answer choice: that helps me imagine a sandcastle

Multiple Choice

WHERE am I looking?

• back at the selection

• in the box (lines 15 and 16)

Multiple Choice

WHAT am I looking for?

• an exact answer from the text

• a conclusion that I come up with after reading

Multiple Choice

WHAT am I looking for?

• answer choice: that matches the meaning of the underlined word

• answer choice: that is the opposite of the meaning of the underlined word

Multiple Choice

WHERE am I looking?

• the poem

• the whole selection

Multiple Choice

WHAT am I looking for?

• the meaning of paintbrush

• how a paintbrush is used to build a sandcastle

Multiple Choice

When you see this, WHERE am I looking?

• the poem

• both the poem and the selection

• the selection

Multiple Choice

WHAT strategy do we use when we are completing paired passages?

• WRRITE

• T-chart

• Always pick answer C

Multiple Choice

It is important to know the difference between a poem and a selection.

• True

• False