WorksheetsReading Test Strategies
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
What do you do as you read a passage?
Think about your reading by asking questions, highlighting important parts, and jotting quick notes out to the side.
Write down every single thought you have.
Outline every paragraph with your pencil.
Highlight all of the words that look important.
What do you do when you come to a passage that is on an unfamiliar topic?
This is the end. Just give up and start crying.
Think negatively the whole time you read it.
Focus and jot about your thinking more. Make connections to what you do know to understand!
Avoid the passage by going to the bathroom many times.
What do you do when you come to an unfamiliar word?
Immediately ask for a dictionary and look it up.
Skip past the word and don't do back to figure out the meaning.
Stop reading completely and stare at the word until you know it.
Use your context clues to read around the word and think of what would make sense based on what is happening in the text. Use a dictionary to check if you are not sure at all.
When you get to the questions and answer choices, you should -
Read the question and answer choices without stopping.
Skim through the question and pick an answer.
Read the question, analyze the key words to figure out what the question is asking, and jot what you think before looking at the answer choices.
Spend a lot of time writing down all of your thoughts around the question.
How do you determine the main idea of an informational text?
Only look at the title.
Use important evidence from all throughout the text to get the big idea of what the text was about.
Jot some details down from what you read.
Only look at the pictures and photographs given.
How should I mark my answers during the reading test?
Wait until the very end to bubble in your answer document.
Bubble quickly so you can spend more time reading.
Carefully bubble on your answer document within each passage set.
Bubble randomly throughout the test.
What do you do when you are finished with your test and there is time remaining?
Go back and make sure each answer you chose matches your answer document.
Shout out, "I'M DONE!" Your friends all need to know.
Stare at the teacher until she can tell you're done.
Raise your hand and turn it in without looking anything over.
How do you determine the theme of a literary text?
I use what happened in the text to think of the life lesson that the story teaches.
I make a guess based on the choices.
I only look at the very end of the text.
I search for the sentence in the text that says, "The theme of this text is..." It always says the theme right in the text.
How do I maintain my stamina throughout the test so I can do my best?
Sit for the entire time and don't ever stop.
Go one passage set at a time. Take a break after 1 or 2 passage sets to stay focused!
Take a break after every 6 questions, even if there are 8 questions in a passage set!
Answer 1 question then lay your head down. You've earned it.
Which of these is the FIRST thing you do when you use the "READ" strategy?
Read closely and thoughtfully
Explain what the text was about
Analyze and annotate your thinking with the questions
Decide on the best answer and prove it with text evidence
WHO is going to rock the reading STAAR?!
Mowgli
Mr. Larry
Grandma
YOU!!!
