Tuesday: STAAR Reading/Writing Review

STAAR Reading 2022/ Editing

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​Junior Park Rangers

1. Read the passage.

2. Next, decide what genre this passage is?

3. Explain why you predicted that genre?

4. Based on the prediction what was the author's purpose in writing this selection? Did this selection have a message? (what did the author wants the reader to learn or take away from this piece.)

1. Who or what the passage, selection, story, poem, or paragraph(s) about?

2. What about the who or what?

Can be found by asking these 2 simple questions:

• central idea

• main idea

• key idea

Important Vocabulary in Reading

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​ANECDOTE

is a brief telling or story of an interesting, and usually funny, incident or occurrence. We often give anecdotes in our everyday lives. We give an anecdote when we tell our friends or family about something funny or interesting that happened during our day

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STAAR Writing 2021

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​Junior Park Rangers

​Read: Junior Park Ranger

After reading the selection answer the editing questions that follow.

Remember to analyze each question. Ask yourself what rule are they following?

• spelling

• homophones

• common vs proper

• contraction vs possessive

• verb tense

• comma rules

• using correct punctuation ? ! . " "

​Remember

COPS to the Rescue

for your editing checklist

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