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STAAR!

Do you ever suffer from one of the following?

Complete certainty that you have chosen the correct answer on a test, then you get it back and do worsethan you anticipated?

An unwillingness to return to the text to verify your answer or support your opinion?

Come to conclusions about a text quickly and form an opinion within the first lines of text?

Tend to ignore large chunks of test, especially those that don’t fit with the conclusions or opinions?

You might be suffering from...

•Selective Reading Syndrome

Let’s Step Back A Moment...

• Do you remember the weekly article from last week?

Let’s Step Back A Moment...

• What was the passage mostly about?

•A) An election between two crooked candidates

•B) A kindhearted and honest girl who runs for class president

Is Kelly really nice?!?

• “How’s our best girl?” they ask.

• Kelly smiles. “Doing just great now,” she says. “Now that Roger looks like a

• woman-hating, meat-eating loser.”

• “We’ve got this election in the bag,” Boyd says. “A vegetarian bag, that is.”

• Trent holds up a bag of veggie burgers. “We’ve even been eating these at lunch,

• showing all those health-conscious kids that we’re one of them.”

• “Well, you sure do look trustworthy now, don’t you?” Kelly says, laughing. “But do you have any real food? I’m so sick of this vegetarian junk. My stomach is killing me!”

• “You bet we do,” says Boyd. “In fact, we have a whole bunch of hot dogs left over

• from Roger’s barbeque yesterday. Let’s go to our house and have dinner.”

• “By the way,” Kelly says, “How did you convince people not to go get delicious free

Doh!

• But have no fear, young ones....

There is a cure for Selective Reading Syndrome

Slow Down

Annotate

Go back to the text for support

What do we need in order to be successful in these categories?

8.2 - Vocabulary Development

What do we need in order to be successful in these categories?

8.3 - Literary Text / Theme & Genre

8.4 - Literary Text / Poetry

8.5 - Literary Text / Drama

8.6 - Literary Text / Fiction

8.7 - Literary Text / Literary Nonfiction

8.8 - Literary Text / Sensory Language

What do we need in order to be successful in these categories?

8.9 - Informational Text / History and Culture

8.10 - Informational Text / Expository Text

8.11 - Informational Text / Persuasive Text

8.12 - Informational Text / Procedural Text

8.13 - Media Literacy (Think, images, charts, maps...)

What will STAAR look like?

4 hours

52 Multiple Choice Questions

So, how do I tackle STAAR?

Preview the questions, if you want

Read each passage once through without stopping

Get an idea of the who, what, when, where, why, and how

Go back and re-read each passage, taking notes as you go

Define unknown terms

Write down key points13

Want some review practice?

http://quizlet.com/10729457/flashcards

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