We used a Shel Silverstein poem (Adventures of a Frisbee) the other day and as we were finishing up, I created some STAAR stem questions to go with the poem. They were quick and easy when I looked at the stems STAAR has used in the past.
We used the reading passage called Jacob The Great to compare and contrast. You can find that passage here.
We used the reading passage called Jacob The Great to compare and contrast. You can find that passage here.
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Below are all the ways STAAR has asked about poetry the last 3 years.
5th Grade:
6th Grade:
5th Grade:
- The poet uses line 11 to signal that the speaker changes from –
- In line 3, why does the poet repeat and italicize the words from 2?
- What idea does the poet convey through the description of Bartholomew in lines 25 through 30?
- The organization of the poem helps show that Bartholomew’s actions –
- Based on the poem, what can the reader conclude about the speaker’s past behavior?
- Why does the poem begin and end with the same line?
- Read these lines from the poem. These two lines reveal that the speaker’s parents −
- The poem is mostly about a speaker who-
- Read this line form the first stanza. The repetition in this line emphasizes the idea that -
6th Grade:
- In line 24, why does the speaker say that he found “sweetness and pride” in the first tomato?
- Stanza 4 is important to the poem because it shows –
- The poet organizes the poem by –
- Which line from the poem presents a problem that the speaker cannot control?
- Which line from the poem suggests that people in covered wagons experienced the conditions of the land?
- The poet organizes the poem as she does in order to –
- Why does the poet include stanzas 3 and 4?
- The poet suggests that pioneers had to –
- The poet includes the pilot’s statements in stanza 1 in order to –
- What does the poet suggest about the tree in lines 24 through 30?
- Which word best describes the speaker’s attitude toward the tree?
- Why are the first and third lines of the poem echoed in the last stanza?
- Read these lines from the poem. The poet uses these lines to show that the speaker feels –
- Which lines from the poem suggest that the tree deserves respect?
- Read lines 5 through 10 from the poem. The poet used personification in these lines most likely to show that the tree −