STAAR Reading Middle School

Tran would like to add a sentence to support the idea he has presented in sentence 7. Which of these could BEST follow and support sentence 7?

• Many other people tried strategies in their trips over the falls.

• She survived her trip over the falls.

• There are lots of ways to survive a trip over the falls.

• While she survived and became the first person to go over the falls, she didn't become rich.

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 4? The most deaths actually happened at the dangerous whirlpool when people ___________ into the vicious eddy.

• have swam across the river and often getting sucked

• have swum across the river and often gotten sucked

• have swam across the river, and often gotten sucked

• has swam across the river and often gotten sucked

Using the image. What is the article being used to answer the prompt?

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 3?

• Change deaths to death's

• Change occured to occurred

• Insert a comma after when

• Sentence 3 does not need to be changed.

The reason why the author wrote the text. To inform, to persuade, and to entertain.

• author's writing

• author's background

• author's purpose

• author's intent

A strategy that helps readers understand or make clear what they are reading.

• predict

• clarify

• claim

• sumarize

Using clues from the story to make a reasonable guess about what will happen next.

• summarize

• predict

• introduce

• claim

To retell the main parts or ideas from a text in your own words.

• support

• synthesize

• analysis

• summary

Helps the reader to picture what is happening.

• describe

• analyze

• conclude

• introduce

What is the main idea of a passage?

• A) The author's background

• B) The central point or theme

• C) The first sentence

• D) The last paragraph