Reading STAAR Review

What do you need to make a simple sentence ?

• a subject and a verb

• a subject

• a verb

• anything with words and a period is a simple sentence

What does a subject tell you ?

• Who / What

• Why something happened?

• An action

What are sentences always supposed to have in them?

• Capital letters and punctuation

• commas

• question marks

• exclamation points

What is the verb in this sentence?

The dog jumped over the boy.

• The

• dog

• boy

• jumped

What is a verb?

• tells who/ what

• gives information about the passage

• a punctuation mark

• an action

What do you need to make an inference ?

• background knowledge + figurative language

• simile and metaphor

• background knowledge + text evidence

What genre gives you information about a certain topic?

• fiction

• poetry

• informational

• nonfiction

What genre has a problem and solution ?

• fiction

• informational

• sequence

• problem and solution

What is an adverb?

• describes a verb

• an action in the sentence

• who the sentence is talking about

• something that lets you know the sentence has ended

What information MUST you read before answering questions on revising and editing ?

• the story

• the first two sentences

• the italicized portion at the top

• go straight to the questions