9th Grade English STAAR Review
Authored by Mindy Perez
English
9th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz comprehensively covers 9th grade English Language Arts concepts essential for standardized test preparation, specifically focusing on grammar, writing mechanics, literary analysis, and test-taking strategies. Students need a solid foundation in sentence structure and grammar rules to identify correctly written sentences and fix common errors like run-ons, comma splices, and pronoun-antecedent agreement issues. They must understand the writing process, including crafting effective thesis statements, using appropriate transitions, and organizing expository essays with introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions. Literary analysis skills are crucial as students identify and analyze figurative language devices such as similes, metaphors, alliteration, and allusions, while also recognizing literary elements like theme, tone, and characterization. Additionally, students need vocabulary knowledge to determine word meanings in context and understand poetry forms including free verse and tragic hero archetypes. Created by Mindy Perez, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 9. This comprehensive review quiz serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as test preparation, formative assessment, or homework reinforcement leading up to the STAAR examination. Teachers can use this as a warm-up activity to gauge student readiness, assign it for independent practice to identify knowledge gaps, or implement it as a review session to reinforce key concepts before the state assessment. The quiz addresses multiple Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards including 9.11(D) for editing and revising, 9.6 for literary analysis and figurative language, 9.12(A) for expository writing structure, and 9.5 for reading comprehension strategies. Students benefit from the mixed question format that mirrors the actual STAAR test structure, building both content knowledge and test-taking confidence through strategic practice with grammar correction, reading comprehension, and writing mechanics.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
Which is written correctly?
But online networking, which is very popular with teens today, promotes short, superficial
connections
But online networking promotes short, superficial connections, it is very popular with teens today.
But online networking that promotes short, superficial connections, it is very popular with teens today.
But online networking promotes short, superficial connections with teens today, which it is very popular.
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CCSS.RF.3.3B
CCSS.RF.3.3C
CCSS.RF.3.3D
CCSS.RF.4.3A
CCSS.RF.5.3A
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
how can you fix Sentence 12?
Change these teens to they
Change they to researchers
Change suggesting to saying
Change a while to some time
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CCSS.RL.8.7
CCSS.RI.8.7
CCSS.RI.9-10.7
CCSS.RL.7.7
CCSS.RL.9-10.7
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
Which is written correctly?
Everyone communicates in person in one way, they communicate in different ways over
the phone, through texting, or in online posts.
Everyone communicates differently in person than they do when speaking over the phone, sending texts, or writing online posts.
Everyone communicates in person differently than they do over the phone, to send texts, or posting online.
Everyone communicates in person, over the phone, through texting, or in online posts differently.
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CCSS.RF.3.3B
CCSS.RF.3.3C
CCSS.RF.3.3D
CCSS.RF.4.3A
CCSS.RF.5.3A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Susan needs a better transition from the third paragraph (sentences 15–20) to the fourth paragraph (sentences 21–25). Which of the following can be added to the beginning of the fourth paragraph, just before sentence 21, to strengthen this transition?
This ability to communicate in person becomes even more important as teenagers get older.
In a few short years, most teens in our school will be entering the job market or college.
Learning to read people’s communication cues will help build opportunities for teens.
In a business setting, a teen will need to know how to understand his coworkers.
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CCSS.RL.9-10.2
CCSS.RI. 9-10.2
CCSS.RI.8.2
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
Anika has written a weak thesis statement for her paper. Which of the following can replace sentences 4 and 5 and serve as a more effective thesis for this paper?
The people who live in Coober Pedy love their special little city. All of these people have made a decision to live in a unique way.
It isn’t what you can see that makes this city amazing; it’s what you cannot see. There are 3,500 people who call Coober Pedy home, and almost all of them live and work under ground.
Coober Pedy’s interesting history includes miners, people living under ground, very hot weather, and media attention. All of this put together makes Coober Pedy an interesting place to me.
It isn’t because it’s abandoned that Coober Pedy is fascinating; it’s because it only looks abandoned since people are really living under ground.
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CCSS.W.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.2
CCSS.RI.9-10.8
CCSS.W.9-10.1
CCSS.W.9-10.1A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
Anika has not used the most effective transition in sentence 8. Which of the following should replace After all in this sentence?
Soon
Instead
Finally
Otherwise
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CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
How should Sentence 5 be changed?
Change explore to explored
Change were written to was written
Change years to year’s
Change you to they
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
CCSS.RI.7.3
CCSS.RI.8.3
CCSS.RI.9-10.3
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