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4th grade Reading STAAR REVIEW Answer Key

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READING SKILLS
#1 A (FACT; OPINION) can be proven... What is a fact?
#2 What a person thinks or feels about a subject What is an opinion?
#3 Finding how two things are similar or different What is compare and contrast?
#4 You use these to prove inferences. What isproof from the story?
#5 kind, obnoxious, and bored are all examples of what? What are character traits?
Yes, I've Got Reading Skills!
#1 Beginning, Middle, and End (BME) is the same as a --- What is a summary?
#2 What a paragraph or story is mainly about? What is the main/central idea?
#3 When things are presented by the author in the order they happened, or as they happened What is sequence? (organization)
#4 The time and place where a story happens What is setting?
#5 What you think might happen next in a story based on what you have read What is a prediction?
LET'S TALK ABOUT STAAR BABY!
#1 Instead of relying on your memory, you should do this when answering the questions What is go back, reread, and prove your answer?
#2 A quick way to find the summary of a literary selection CASPER-character, problem and solution
#3 The reason the author wrote a selection is called --- What is author's purpose? (PIExEn)
#4 Cause and effect is an example of the organization an author can choose for a passage. Name three others. Main Idea and details, sequence (as it happened), problem- solution, compare/contrast
#5 An educated guess based on the information in the text and your background knowledge. What is an inference?
More STAAR
#1 A strategy for checking your answer for a main idea question What is maing sure the details support the main idea?
#2 The word PREFIX has a prefix in it which means _______ of a word beginning?
#3 The section of the word after the root word that helps with meaning. For example -able in the word fixable. What is a suffix?
#4 How do you find the summary of a nonfiction selection highlight important details that support the main idea
#5 Use these to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word what are context clues?
Strategies
#1 The first thing you should do when you are given theselection to read. What is highlight and read the title?
#2 You should do while reading each selection Highlight/circle important information and take notes
#3 You should do this after completing each paragraph in a selection take notes
#4 When you get to the questions, what should you do? BOX important words like supports, shows, illustrates/CODE your questions
#5 BEFORE answering a question, you should do these two things. Use a crayon to proove your answer, FIND PROOF!
Final Question
Diagrams, charts, and thinking maps are generally ___________ questions because _____________________________________ . fact; they contain information that can be proven.