STAAR Assessment Program Overview - Frisco ISD

Reading
• Fiction and Expository on every Test
• Other genre are supporting standards
– Poetry, Drama, etc. not every year, but some years.
Won’t know which
• Procedural text and media literacy included
within the fiction or expository text
• Author’s craft questions:
– Why did the author use the phrase…
– Why did author conclude the second paragraph with
an ellipsis?