STAAR PRACTICE: AUTHOR'S PURPOSE
Authored by Carolyn Smith
English
8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
What is the most likely reason the authors included the information about the kids digging at the end of the dialogue?
To provide details about the creature.
To describe what they are doing.
To explain where the kids are digging.
To show how the kids are feeling.
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8.9A
2.
OPEN ENDED QUESTION
5 mins • 2 pts
Why does the author include guesses about what is in the hole? Support your answer with evidence from the story.
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I think the author included the children guessing different animals because it shows why they are so shocked at what's in the hole can talk. They go from thinking " a snake" and "a rat" to it saying, "you let me alone."
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3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
PART A:
What is the most likely reason the author wrote this diary entry?
To record events in her life.
To tell her side of the story.
To provide an explanation for her actions.
To emphasize.
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8.9A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
PART B:
How does the author develop the purpose?
By listing many things she did that day.
By giving examples of her life.
By asking important questions.
By documenting details from a moment in her life.
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8.9A
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Who wants to spend an entire evening doing algebra and English? Who wants to get fewer than five hours of sleep each night?
What is the MAIN purpose of the questions?
to contrast opposing ideas
to provide facts about homework
to persuade the reader to a position
to entertain the reader with humor
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8.9A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
What is the MAIN purpose of Paragraph 1?
to describe the surface of Mars
to compare and contrast Mars and Earth
to establish the location of the experiment
to introduce the premise of the experiment
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8.9A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
What is a MAIN purpose of Paragraph 2?
to describe how livestock and goods may be bartered
to list problems associated with early forms of money
to trace the development of a national financial system
to identify the features necessary to a form of currency
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8.9A
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