Day 2: 3rd Grade Reading STAAR Review

Play Pump may look like your average merry-go-round, but more than likely your local merry-go-round does not supply water to you. Play Pumps are used in some parts of the world where clean water is almost impossible to find. Play Pumps work by taking the energy from the movement of the merry-go-round to pump water from underground into a holding container for communities to use. The reader can conclude that --

• Play Pumps are simple merry-go-rounds.

• Play Pumps are important in some parts of the world.

• Play Pumps are impossible to find.

• Play Pumps are very expensive.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

Which sentence best support the idea that potato chips are well-liked today?

• Potato chips are a crunchy and salty snack.

• Potato chips have come a long way from their beginnings are fried potatoes.

• Potato chips began as an accidental success.

• Grocery stores sometimes have a hard time keeping bags of potato chips on their shelves before they sell out.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

Earth is a great planet for human life. We have air, water, and food that are necessary for our survival. Some people think that one day we may need to move to another planet like Mars! Mr. Elon Musk is one of those people. He created the company SpaceX which builds spaceships. Mr. Musk's idea is that one day his SpaceX rockets will take humans to Mars. The reader can conclude that Elon Musk is likely to be --

• friendly

• competitive

• innovative (creator)

• worried

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

Captions are used to- 

• explain the main idea 
• describe the selection 
• describe the author's purpose 
• explain the photograph

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Stanzas in poetry are like- 

• lines 
• the poet 
• paragraphs 
• the whole selection 

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

Which line helps the reader imagine Texas on a hot day- 

• The freezing temperatures froze the pond
• The sizzling sidewalk burned my feet 
• The breeze brushed my skin 
• The cooling rain felt so wonderful on my skin 

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Jane's 3rd grade class acted like a three-ring circus when they came in from lunch Friday.

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.3C

CCSS.RF.2.4

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

When a reader can form a picture in their mind.  This is an example of___________________.

• Imagery
• Rhyme
• Rhythm
• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

If I ask you to preheat the oven. I'm asking you to _______

• not heat
• heat before
• heat again
• heat wrong

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.3C

CCSS.RF.2.3F

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

If you miscounted the jelly beans.  You counted_________

• correctly
• wrong
• today
• later

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4