STAAR Paired Passages

Read the next two selections. Then choose the best answer to each question.

• Reading Passage

• Paired Passage

• Editing Passage

• Revising Passage

Use “Peace and Quiet” (pp. 15–17) to answer questions 14–19. Then fill in the answers on your answer document.

• Reading Passage

• Paired Passage

• Editing Passage

• Revising Passage

Use “Peace and Quiet” and “Maple Street” to answer questions 24–27. Then fill in the answers on your answer document.

• Reading Passage

• Paired Passage

• Editing Passage

• Revising Passage

Use “Keeping Cool” (pp. 9–10) to answer questions 7–10. Then fill in the answers on your answer document.

• Reading Passage

• Paired Passage

• Editing Passage

• Revising Passage

How many texts will be in the paired passage?

• 0

• 1

• 2

• 3

What should you do after reading the first story in a paired passage?

• Underline the title

• Make an inference with the title

• answer the questions for the first story only

• answer all of the questions

Use “Keeping Cool” and “Spongers of the Sea” to answer questions 15–18. Then fill in the answers on your answer document.

• Reading Passage

• Paired Passage

• Editing Passage

• Revising Passage

When testing on a paired passage, how do you read it?

• read both passages then the questions

• read one, answer one, read two, answer two, and then both

• go to the questions first

• there's no strategy on how to read a paired passage

When you see a paired passage, the best thing to do SECOND is...

• Locate the second passage and the questions that go with it. Read the questions. Then read the passage. Next answer the questions that go with the second passage.

• Skip reading the passages and directly answer the questions.

• Read the questions first before reading any passage.

• Read passage 1 . Then answer the questions to passage 2.

When you see a paired passage, the best thing to do FIRST is...

• Locate the first passage and the questions that go with it. Read the questions. Then read the passage. Answer the questions that go along with it.

• Skip reading the passages and directly answer the questions.

• Read the questions first before reading any passage.

• Read passage 2 . Then answer the questions to passage 1.