STAAR Review

What is the most effective way to revise sentence 2?

• This could honestly go either way. There are so many good things and bad things that electronics can bring about.

• This could honestly go either way, but there are so many good things and bad things.

• There are so many good things; this could honestly go either way and an almost equal number of bad things.

• No change needs to be made.

Drag and drop the meaning for each letter of TPCASTT

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Attitude

Alliteration

Paraphrase

Connotation

Title (again)

Theme

Personification

Shift

Title

Classification

What change should be made to line 2?

• Change Self-help to Self help

• change our to your

• change temperitures to temperatures

• no change is needed

What is the meaning of the word "benevolent" in the sentence: "The benevolent queen helped her people during difficult times."

• Angry

• Kind

• Sad

• Confused

What vocabulary word means something that proves or disproves something; proof

• temerity

• dogmatic

• evidence

• extraneous

Label the plot elements on the diagram

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climax

Main problem

ending

connotation

tone

resolution

background information

exposition

rising action

falling action

Do you have to paraphrase on the STAAR test?

• no

• YES!

• what?

• maybe?

Which is something you WILL do on the Reading STAAR test?

• reread the text

• hashtag and highlight

• read the question carefully

• all of the above

The sheep roamed in the field and ate grass all day and night

• A

• B

• C

• D

What lines in this poem rhyme?

• lines 5 and 6

• lines 6 and 7

• lines 6 and 8

• lines 7 and 8