Gearing up for STAAR 2.0

When readers combine clues in the text with what they already know, they are...

• summarizing

• making inferences

• drawing conclusions

• using process of elimination

STAAR 2.0 is testing me on the following skills:

• Author's Purpose

  Summarizing

  Organization Patterns

  Key Ideas

  Inferring

• Reading

  Writing

  Main Idea

  Revising

  Editing

• Claim

  Evidence

  Reasons

  Thesis Statement

  Citing Sources

• Capitalization

  Usage

  Punctuation

  Spelling

  Sentence Structures

Match the questions to the skill being tested.

• Inference

• The reader can tell that "black tide" is most likely to be-

• Author's Purpose

• Organizing paragraph 7 using cause and effect allows the author to-

• Plot Development

• Which event helps to build tension in the scene?

• Organizational Patterns

• Which of these is the best summary of the selection?

• Summary

• The author including this information in the selection is most likely to-

How many questions will be on the STAAR Reading assessment?

• 72

• 62

• 52

• 42

With short ​ (a)   responses, students must answer an item with ​ (b)   answer choices. If the students partly answer the questions, ​ (c)   credit will be given. Some short constructed responses have ​ (d)   answer choices and students must ​ (e)   their answers.

• constructed
• multiple
• partial
• no
• type

Cause/Effect, Problem/Solution, Description, and Compare/Contrast are all examples of-

• Context Clues

• Key Ideas

• Organizational Patterns

• Inferences

Label the parts of the prompt.

a

b

c

d

Writing Rubric

Quote

Write statement

Read statement

Which part of the prompt tells the writer WHAT to do?

c

Think Statement

Write Statement

Writing Rubric

Read statement

Quote

Which part of the prompt tells the writer HOW?

a

Writing Rubric

Think Statement

Write Statement

Quote

Read Statement

Revising questions focus on-

• capitalization

  usage

  punctuation

  spelling

• the introduction

  the thesis statement

  the body

  the conclusion

• restating the question

  answering the question

  citing the evidence

  explaining the evidence

• adding

  substracting

  removing

  ocmbining