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Day 2: 3rd Grade Reading STAAR Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Play Pump may look like your average merry-go-round, but more than likely your local merry-go-round does not supply water to you. Play Pumps are used in some parts of the world where clean water is almost impossible to find. Play Pumps work by taking the energy from the movement of the merry-go-round to pump water from underground into a holding container for communities to use. The reader can conclude that --

a)

Play Pumps are simple merry-go-rounds.

b)

Play Pumps are important in some parts of the world.

c)

Play Pumps are impossible to find.

d)

Play Pumps are very expensive.

2.

Which sentence best support the idea that potato chips are well-liked today?

a)

Potato chips are a crunchy and salty snack.

b)

Potato chips have come a long way from their beginnings are fried potatoes.

c)

Potato chips began as an accidental success.

d)

Grocery stores sometimes have a hard time keeping bags of potato chips on their shelves before they sell out.

3.

Earth is a great planet for human life. We have air, water, and food that are necessary for our survival. Some people think that one day we may need to move to another planet like Mars! Mr. Elon Musk is one of those people. He created the company SpaceX which builds spaceships. Mr. Musk's idea is that one day his SpaceX rockets will take humans to Mars. The reader can conclude that Elon Musk is likely to be --

a)

friendly

b)

competitive

c)

innovative (creator)

d)

worried

4.
Captions are used to- 
a)
explain the main idea 
b)
describe the selection 
c)
describe the author's purpose 
d)
explain the photograph
5.
Stanzas in poetry are like- 
a)
lines 
b)
the poet 
c)
paragraphs 
d)
the whole selection 
6.
Which line helps the reader imagine Texas on a hot day- 
a)
The freezing temperatures froze the pond
b)
The sizzling sidewalk burned my feet 
c)
The breeze brushed my skin 
d)
The cooling rain felt so wonderful on my skin 
7.

Jane's 3rd grade class acted like a three-ring circus when they came in from lunch Friday.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

8.
When a reader can form a picture in their mind.  This is an example of___________________.
a)
Imagery
b)
Rhyme
c)
Rhythm
d)
Repetition
9.
If I ask you to preheat the oven. I'm asking you to _______
a)
not heat
b)
heat before
c)
heat again
d)
heat wrong
10.
If you miscounted the jelly beans.  You counted_________
a)
correctly
b)
wrong
c)
today
d)
later
11.
If a road is impassible.  It is ______
a)
always passible
b)
sometimes passible
c)
not passible
12.
If you make a mistake you may have to redo your paper.
a)
never do
b)
do always
c)
do again
13.
Read the dictionary entry for the word blue.
blue/bloo/noun
1. primary color
2. depressed or melancholy
3. a member of the Union army
Which of the following best matches the way the word blue is used in the following sentence?
The beautiful, young girl was blue when her grandma left.
a)
Meaning 1
b)
Meaning 2
c)
Meaning 3
d)
None of these
14.
Read the paragraph below and answer the question that follows. 
Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
- First, mix 2 1/2 cups of flour with 1 teaspoon of salt. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, mix 2 eggs, 1 cup of brown sugar, and 1/2 of granulated sugar. 
- Mix the flour mixture with the egg and sugar mixture. 
- Scoop batter onto a cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes. 
What is the author's purpose for writing the paragraph above?
a)
encourage young people to learn something new
b)
show how to interpret or follow directions
c)
give information about how to solve a problem
d)
give information about types of cookies
15.

A summary must include all of the following EXCEPT

a)

important information from the beginning

b)

unimportant details

c)

important information from the middle

d)

important information from the ending

16.

You should do ALL of the following reading strategies on the STAAR Reading Test, EXCEPT

a)

First, you should read the title and look at the text features such as subheadings, photos, captions, timelines, diagrams, maps, etc.

b)

Second, read the entire selection and take thinking notes

c)

Thirdly, read the entire selection a second time

d)

Next, read the questions & answer choices just once and don't look back in the selection for your answer and bubble in your answer

e)

Next, read the questions & answer choices carefully like two or three times and look for the answer in the selections before bubbling in your answer

17.

A story includes ALL of the following EXCEPT

a)

characters that talk

b)

a setting- a time and place

c)

information or facts about a topic

d)

events- things that happen in the story- the characters do things or have things happen to them

e)

most of the time it has a problem and sometimes a solution