Test Prep: Standardized Test Question Stems Sorting Activity

When you are prepping students for tests, be sure to help them understand what questions are asking.

One of our favorite activities for this is to sort test question stems by their focus. Making this an active lesson – rather than presenting students a list or reading one aloud – means students are physically engaged in the activity.

We use each set separately to match the text type we’re teaching, but before the state test, we like to mix them all to see if students can determine the focus on a larger scale.

This set includes more than 160 question stems to sort for these types of texts:

  • fiction
  • nonfiction / informational / argumentative
  • poetry
  • drama

Taken from common standardized tests, including Texas STAAR, NY regents, and more!

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Test Prep: Standardized Test Question Stems Sorting Activity

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When you are prepping students for tests, be sure to help them understand what questions are asking by studying test question stems.

One of our favorite activities for this is to sort test question stems by their focus. Making this an active lesson – rather than presenting students a list or reading one aloud – means students are physically engaged in the activity.

We use each set separately to match the text type we’re teaching, but before the state test, we like to mix them all to see if students can determine the focus on a larger scale.

This set includes more than 160 question stems to sort for these types of texts:

  • fiction
  • nonfiction / informational / argumentative
  • poetry
  • drama

And includes question types around:

  • character
  • conflict
  • setting
  • inferring / drawing conclusions
  • figurative language
  • author’s purpose / perspective
  • theme
  • plot
  • summaries
  • main idea, details, claims
  • text features
  • text structures
  • vocabulary
  • poetic elements
  • dramatic elements

User guide is included with a suggested extension activity.

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