WorksheetsReading STAAR Review
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 13mins
What are these called?
Parenthesis
Semi-colons
Quotation Marks
Apostrophe Marks
Which text feature is this?
Caption
Diagram
Photograph
Timeline
Which text feature is being displayed here?
Table
Timeline
Textbox
Glossary
Which figurative language uses words that imitate natural sounds?
Alliteration
Imagery
Theme
Onomatopoeia
A play usually written in acts and scenes?
Poetry
Drama
Plot
Biography
is an ABC listing of key names, terms, events, and topics with page #'s. Type of Text Feature...
Glossary
Table of Contents
Index
Textbox
Lists major parts of the book along with their page numbers to help locate information.
Index
Glossary
Table of Contents
Timelines
Is this a photograph or illustration?
Photograph
Illustration
Is this a photograph or an illustration?
Photograph
Illustration
Author's Purpose- Why the author is writing the text...Which answer choice is correct?
Persuade, inform, explain, entertain
Exaggeration, contradiction, parallelism, and comparison
parallelism, exaggeration, inform, and persuade
explain, entertain, comparison, contradiction
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?
semi-colon
quotation mark
curved lines
parenthesis
What is the main purpose of doing something? Either a character is doing it or the main purpose the author wrote the text...
entertain everyone
primary purpose
give information
persuade people
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.
Heading
Glossary
Footnote
Caption
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?
Author's Purpose
Figurative Language
Alliteration
Sensory Language
What are the words called that are slanted?
Bold
Italicized
Textbox
Text
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.
Sub Headings or Sub Titles
Titles
Timelines
Tables
Which text feature is a list of key terms in ABC order. Each of the key (important) words are defined (definition given).
Table of Contents
Caption
Index
Glossary
Something that is known or can be proven true or verified.
A view or judgement formed about something, not based on a fact.
Using clues from the text to come up with an answer using only the information from the story?
Inference; Infer; Drawing Conclusions
Foreshadow
Flashback
Genre
Which text feature is this shown in the image?
Table
Diagram
Map
Timeline
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a poem.
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme Scheme
Alliteration
Stanza
The pattern of rhyme between lines in a poem?
Internal Rhyme
Free Verse
Imagery
Rhyme Scheme
How the author feels about his/her topic, and how he wants YOU to feel as a reader?
Emphasis
Author's Viewpoint
Inference
Author's Purpose
Which image shows a Title?
Subheading, true or false?
True
False
Is the arrow pointing to a caption?
Yes
No
Using words to create pictures or images in the readers head?
Sensory language
Imagery
Poetry
Theme
Is this showing a stanza in poetry?
True
False
In poetry, if the author writes in Free verse, does it rhyme or not rhyme?
Rhyme
Does not rhyme
What is a technique where an author gives a hint or clue early in the story of what will come later in the story?
Flashback
Foreshadow
An author tells a memory of an event in the past and then goes back to the regular story.
Foreshadow
Flashback
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...
Non-Fiction
Fiction
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...
Fiction
Non-Fiction
What are the five main text structures the author uses to organize the information in the text?
compare/contrast, main idea/description, problem solution, entertaining, cause/effect
compare/contrast, main idea/description, problem solution, sequence/chronological order, persuade
compare/contrast, persuade , problem solution, sequence/chronological order, cause/effect
compare/contrast, main idea/description, problem solution, sequence/chronological order, cause/effect
True or False: The theme is a moral or a lesson that the reader can apply to his/her life today.
True
False
Should I get a good night's sleep before I take the reading STAAR?
True
False
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?
YES
NO
Should I eat a healthy breakfast and bring a snack the day of the test?
YES
NO
YES
NO
Am I going to do AWESOME if I try my best and use my strategies????????
YES
YES
YES
YES
