STAAR Review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle | The Most Fun Classroom Games!

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What are you allowed to do when you finish the test?

Read a book.

Short Constructed Response - support your answer with _____________.

Text Evidence

T/F Correct answer choices may contain similar words or ideas from the question and/or passage.

True

What are words/phrases that appeal to sight, smell, taste, tough, and sound?

Sensory Language or Imagery

What should you do it you aren't sure how a word is spelled?

Look it up in the dictionary or use a word you DO know how to spell.

Photos, charts, graphs, images, captions, footnotes, titles, headings, and subheadings are all _____________ to look for in informational texts.

Text Features

What is a scene or memory from the past called?

Flashback

T/F It's a good idea to strikethrough answers you have eliminated.

True

Never hook sentences together with _________ - make sure independent clauses are joined with a semicolon or FANBOY.

Commas

What is the author of a dramatic piece called?

Playwright

Is it ok to abbreviate words in your SCR or ESSAY? (idk, bc)

NO!!!!!!!

Make sure you plan out your essay on your scratch paper. T/F

True

SCR - Put your citations inside ____________.

Quotation marks

What do stage directions do?

Provide information about actions, expressions, movement, technical directions, costuming, etc

T/F It's a good idea to preview the questions prior to reading the passage.

True

What is an extreme exaggeration called?

Hyperbole

Name 2 organizational structures in informational texts.

Cause/effect, problem-solution, steps in a process, chronological order, main idea & supporting details

T/F It's important to read the entire passage.

True

Name 3 things that should be capitalized.

Sentence beginnings, proper nouns, Titles

What is it when the thoughts and feelings within a character contribute to his/her struggle?

Internal Conflict