STAAR Review

What two things do you need to make an inference?

• context clues and key words

• text evidence and background knowledge (what you know)

• main idea and details

• you don't need 2 things, you just guess

Where do poems usually rhyme?

• at the beginning of the lines

• in the middle of the lines

• at the very end of the lines

• poems don't rhyme

What is the authors purpose of the sentence below? Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.

What is a main character?

• The bad guy

• The good guy

• The most important person to the story

• just a random person in the story

What genre is this story?

• Fiction

• Non-Fiction

If a question tells you, "In paragraph 2, what does.." what should be the first thing you do?

• try to remember what paragraph 2 said

• go back and read paragraph 2 and find your evidence

• it's not important

• try to paraphrase paragraph 2

When you have a vocabulary question and you don't know the word, what should you do?

• look it up in the dictionary

• find your context clues in the sentence the word is in

• guess what you think is correct

• you don't need any strategies

What is the authors purpose of the sentence below? Recycling is good for the environment. Everyone should recycle their plastic bottles.

What is the purpose of a thesis statement in an essay?

• A) To provide a summary of the essay

• B) To state the main argument or point of the essay

• C) To introduce the characters in the essay

• D) To conclude the essay

Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?

• A) She don't like apples.

• B) He go to school every day.

• C) They has a big house.

• D) She doesn't like apples.