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Texas STAAR End-of-Course Exams
Texas STAAR English II End-of-Course — grade-10 reading comprehension and literary/informational analysis across genres (including world literature), plus revising, editing, and a 10-point extended written composition.
8 topics · 20 lessons · 88 practice questions
Using context and resources to determine denotative, connotative, and figurative meanings, discipline-based terms, and common foreign words and phrases.
2 lessons · 8 practice questions
Making and confirming predictions, drawing inferences supported by evidence, determining key ideas, paraphrasing and summarizing, and synthesizing across multiple texts.
3 lessons · 14 practice questions
Analyzing theme across cultures, complex characters and archetypes, the function of isolated scenes, and how historical and cultural settings shape characterization, plot, and theme.
3 lessons · 14 practice questions
Analyzing world literature, poetic meter and rhyme, dramatic conventions, informational structure (design-thesis relationship), and argumentative structure (claims, evidence, counterarguments, audience).
3 lessons · 14 practice questions
Analyzing purpose/audience/message, text structure and features, how language shapes readers' perception, literary devices (irony, sarcasm, motif), diction and syntax, and rhetorical devices and logical fallacies.
3 lessons · 14 practice questions
Organizing and developing drafts and revising for clarity, development, organization, style, diction, and sentence effectiveness.
2 lessons · 8 practice questions
Editing for sentence boundaries, verb tense and voice, pronoun-antecedent agreement, capitalization, punctuation (including parentheses), and spelling.
2 lessons · 10 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 · 6 practice questions
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