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Texas STAAR End-of-Course Exams
Texas STAAR English I End-of-Course — reading comprehension across literary and informational texts, plus revising, editing, and an extended written composition.
8 topics · 19 lessons · 99 practice questions
Using context and resources to determine denotative and connotative meanings, discipline-based terms, and common foreign words and phrases.
2 lessons · 13 practice questions
Making and confirming predictions, drawing inferences supported by evidence, determining key ideas, paraphrasing and summarizing, and synthesizing across two texts.
3 lessons · 12 practice questions
Analyzing theme, characterization (including character foils), setting's influence on theme, and linear vs. non-linear plot structures.
2 lessons · 13 practice questions
Analyzing poetry and drama conventions, informational text structure, and argumentative structure (claims, evidence, counterarguments, audience).
3 lessons · 12 practice questions
Analyzing author's purpose/audience/message, text structure and features, language and literary devices, diction and syntax (mood/voice/tone), and rhetorical devices and logical fallacies.
3 lessons · 12 practice questions
Organizing and developing drafts and revising for clarity, development, organization, style, diction, and sentence effectiveness.
2 lessons · 12 practice questions
Editing for sentence boundaries, verb tense and voice, pronoun-antecedent agreement, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
2 lessons · 13 practice questions
Composing the 10-point ECR: responding to text(s) with a clear central idea/claim, coherent organization, sufficient development, supporting evidence, and effective language and conventions.
2 lessons · 12 practice questions
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