Understanding STAAR questions

What is this statement asking you to do?

• Learn about tourist attractions from Arjun.

• Write an essay about tourist attractions.

• Read Arjun's essay and help him revise.

• Read Arjun's essay and help him edit.

Answer explanation

Don't skip over the information at the top in italics. Your purpose is to read and revise the essay.

ARMS

Add words/sentences

Remove words/sentences

Move words/sentences

Substitute word/sentences

Why are there numbers next to each sentence and not each line?

• You need to make sure each sentence of the essay is written correctly.

• Those numbers match the question numbers.

• It's a poem.

• This is a typo.

Answer explanation

Your job is to help someone revise or edit their essay. You want to make sure each line makes sense with the other lines and paragraphs.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What is an excerpt?

• To be bold and confident.

• A part taken from a larger text.

• When lava comes out of a volcano.

• Another way to say except.

Answer explanation

Throughout the STAAR, you will read excerpts. Since it is just a small snapshot, this excerpt (if fiction) will not follow the plot diagram.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the central theme of this excerpt?

What is this question actually asking you?

• What is the main lesson of this short passage?

• What is happening in the middle of this short passage?

• What is the main idea of this short passage?

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

What is this question asking?

• What did the reader learn in all the paragraphs before paragraph 14?

• Does the author want the reader stop at paragraph 14?

• When you read paragraph 14, should you stop and answer questions?

• When you read paragraph 14, what conclusion do you make in your mind?

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Here are two STAAR question. Identify the correct grade level for these questions.

A. Based on the information in paragraphs 1 through 4, what can the reader conclude about ________?

B. What can the reader conclude from _________ in paragraphs 17 through 20?

• A. Grade 9

  B. Grade 9

• A. Grade 3

  B. Grade 9

• A. Grade 10

  B. Grade 7

• A. Grade 8

  B. Grade 5

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is this question asking?

• What's the main reason this article was written?

• What's the primary name of the article?

• Who is the youngest person reading the article?

• What is the main lesson or message in this article?

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

What is this question asking?

• Why should we highlight lines 25-34 in the poem?

• What is lines 25 through 34 so important to the poem?

• What happens in the poem before line 25 and after 34?

• What images are in lines 25 through 34

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What should you do every time you see a question with the word " ...reader...?"

• Replace "...reader..." with your classmate's name.

• Re read the passage more than once

• Replace reader with the word I/me since you are the one reading the passage.

• Highlight the word, "reader."

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What effect does the setting have on the story's resolution or ending?

• Based on the setting, there may only be a few possible endings?

• The setting has little to no effect on the story's ending.

• The setting has no effect on the ending?

• The setting may be difficult to set up during a play.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3