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Reading STAAR Review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are these called?

a)

Parenthesis

b)

Semi-colons

c)

Quotation Marks

d)

Apostrophe Marks

2.

Which text feature is this?

a)

Caption

b)

Diagram

c)

Photograph

d)

Timeline

3.

Which text feature is being displayed here?

a)

Table

b)

Timeline

c)

Textbox

d)

Glossary

4.

Which figurative language uses words that imitate natural sounds?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Imagery

c)

Theme

d)

Onomatopoeia

5.

A play usually written in acts and scenes?

a)

Poetry

b)

Drama

c)

Plot

d)

Biography

6.

is an ABC listing of key names, terms, events, and topics with page #'s. Type of Text Feature...

a)

Glossary

b)

Table of Contents

c)

Index

d)

Textbox

7.

Lists major parts of the book along with their page numbers to help locate information.

a)

Index

b)

Glossary

c)

Table of Contents

d)

Timelines

8.

Is this a photograph or illustration?

a)

Photograph

b)

Illustration

9.

Is this a photograph or an illustration?

a)

Photograph

b)

Illustration

10.

Author's Purpose- Why the author is writing the text...Which answer choice is correct?

a)

Persuade, inform, explain, entertain

b)

Exaggeration, contradiction, parallelism, and comparison

c)

parallelism, exaggeration, inform, and persuade

d)

explain, entertain, comparison, contradiction

11.

A word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage marked or shown using curved brackets. What are the curved brackets called?

a)

semi-colon

b)

quotation mark

c)

curved lines

d)

parenthesis

12.

What is the main purpose of doing something? Either a character is doing it or the main purpose the author wrote the text...

a)

entertain everyone

b)

primary purpose

c)

give information

d)

persuade people

13.

Extra information at the bottom of the page that the author wants you to know. Usually represented by a small number next to the word and then the number appears again at the bottom of the page with the extra information.

a)

Heading

b)

Glossary

c)

Footnote

d)

Caption

14.

Language or written words that connects to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, tastes, and touch) to create an image or description for the reader?

a)

Author's Purpose

b)

Figurative Language

c)

Alliteration

d)

Sensory Language

15.

What are the words called that are slanted?

a)

Bold

b)

Italicized

c)

Textbox

d)

Text

16.

Which text feature shows important events in chronological order (sequence)- helps the reader understand the order of events and how one event leads to another.

a)

Sub Headings or Sub Titles

b)

Titles

c)

Timelines

d)

Tables

17.

Which text feature is a list of key terms in ABC order. Each of the key (important) words are defined (definition given).

a)

Table of Contents

b)

Caption

c)

Index

d)

Glossary

18.

Something that is known or can be proven true or verified.

a)
b)
19.

A view or judgement formed about something, not based on a fact.

a)
b)
20.

Using clues from the text to come up with an answer using only the information from the story?

a)

Inference; Infer; Drawing Conclusions

b)

Foreshadow

c)

Flashback

d)

Genre

21.

Which text feature is this shown in the image?

a)

Table

b)

Diagram

c)

Map

d)

Timeline

22.

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a poem.

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Rhyme Scheme

c)

Alliteration

d)

Stanza

23.

The pattern of rhyme between lines in a poem?

a)

Internal Rhyme

b)

Free Verse

c)

Imagery

d)

Rhyme Scheme

24.

How the author feels about his/her topic, and how he wants YOU to feel as a reader?

a)

Emphasis

b)

Author's Viewpoint

c)

Inference

d)

Author's Purpose

25.

Which image shows a Title?

a)
b)
26.

Subheading, true or false?

a)

True

b)

False

27.

Is the arrow pointing to a caption?

a)

Yes

b)

No

28.

Using words to create pictures or images in the readers head?

a)

Sensory language

b)

Imagery

c)

Poetry

d)

Theme

29.

Is this showing a stanza in poetry?

a)

True

b)

False

30.

In poetry, if the author writes in Free verse, does it rhyme or not rhyme?

a)

Rhyme

b)

Does not rhyme

31.

What is a technique where an author gives a hint or clue early in the story of what will come later in the story?

a)

Flashback

b)

Foreshadow

32.

An author tells a memory of an event in the past and then goes back to the regular story.

a)

Foreshadow

b)

Flashback

33.

Which main genre category do these fall under?


Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Comic, Graphic Novel, Myth, Tall Tale, Legend, etc...

a)

Non-Fiction

b)

Fiction

34.

Which main genre category do these fall under?


Information Article, Newspaper, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Biography, Autobiography, Recipe, Article found by googling on the Internet, Magazine, etc...

a)

Fiction

b)

Non-Fiction

35.

What are the five main text structures the author uses to organize the information in the text?

a)

compare/contrast, main idea/description, problem solution, entertaining, cause/effect

b)

compare/contrast, main idea/description, problem solution, sequence/chronological order, persuade

c)

compare/contrast, persuade , problem solution, sequence/chronological order, cause/effect

d)

compare/contrast, main idea/description, problem solution, sequence/chronological order, cause/effect

36.

True or False: The theme is a moral or a lesson that the reader can apply to his/her life today.

a)

True

b)

False

37.

Should I get a good night's sleep before I take the reading STAAR?

a)

True

b)

False

38.

Before I answer a question should I prove and disprove my answers (all answer choices) and look back in the story to find the clues and information in order to answer it?

a)

YES

b)

NO

39.

Should I eat a healthy breakfast and bring a snack the day of the test?

a)

YES

b)

NO

c)

YES

d)

NO

40.

Am I going to do AWESOME if I try my best and use my strategies????????

a)

YES

b)

YES

c)

YES

d)

YES