Staar review Spring 2023

The 8th grade Reading Language Arts STAAR test will have ___ questions.

What does "PIE" stands for in author's purpose?

• Please, insist, educate

• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

• Purpose, inform, entertain

• Pick, information, entrepreneur

Example paragraph:

High-speed trains can help address the affordability of urban transportation. Trains save consumers the expense of owning a car. Cars come with many maintenance costs. People in urban settings typically have to pay for parking as well. A person using a high-speed train for daily travel could save thousands of dollars over time. That person would also avoid the hassle of finding and paying for a parking space in a crowded city. Additionally, those who are used to driving by car would be able to spend less money on gas if they took a high-speed train instead.

Read the dictionary entry.

hassle \ˈha-səl\ n 1. a prolonged argument 2. a state of confusion 3. a debate or controversy 4. an inconvenient problem Which definition of the word hassle is used in the paragraph ?

• Definition 1

• Definition 2

• Definition 3

• Definition 4

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.4B

CCSS.RI.8.4

Imagery is

• The use of sensory details to create a mental image in the reader's mind.

• An exaggeration used to make a point or create an effect.

• The feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.3D

Identify the metaphor

• As fast as a cheetah.

• You sit on a throne of lies.

• If only you knew the power of the dark side.

• Alone together

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Give me your best 3 rhymes.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.W.8.3D

What is point of view?

• Observation

• the character's feelings

• The narrator's opinion

• The narrators perspective; the voice of the work

Grouped lines in a poem is called a...

• Lines

• Rhymes

• Stanza

• Writing

An autobiography is...

• true story of a person's life written or told by someone else

• a specific event or moment written in first person

• a true story of a person's life written or told by that person

• Science fiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

Read the sentences below:

Maddie loved to tell jokes.  making people laugh came easily to her, and it made her feel good.  At school her friends were always listening to her jokes.  Her family loved her wittiness and laughed along with her.What character trait is Maddie displaying?

• Humorous

• Intelligence

• Happy

• Artistic