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STAAR Practice Test: Grade 5 Reading Vocabulary

Free STAAR practice for grade 5 reading vocabulary. It has 20 questions from Stepsies worksheets aligned to the TEKS. Practice online one question at a time, or print the test with its answer key.

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What is on the test

The questions are grouped by TEKS strand. The strands are not the STAAR reporting categories.

How to use it

  1. Let your child or class practice online first. Each answer is checked at once.
  2. Print the test for a quiet practice on paper.
  3. Mark it with the answer key. Write the score out of 20.
  4. Look at the skill check at the end of the test. Teach again the skill with the most mistakes.
  5. Use Version B or Version C for more practice on the same skills.

The questions in Version A

This is what the test asks. The answers are on the answer key.

Part A: Multiple choice

  1. In "reject", ject means:
    1. say
    2. break
    3. throw
  2. Which word has a root that means "see"?
    1. autograph
    2. geology
    3. periscope
  3. In "microwave", micro means:
    1. life
    2. see
    3. small
  4. In "subtract", tract means:
    1. pull
    2. look
    3. throw
  5. In "symphony", phon means:
    1. self
    2. light
    3. sound
  6. In "interrupt", rupt means:
    1. throw
    2. carry
    3. break
  7. Which word has a root that means "light"?
    1. television
    2. biography
    3. photosynthesis
  8. "overwork" means:
    1. work too much
    2. work again
    3. not work
  9. Which word has a root that means "carry"?
    1. export
    2. scribble
    3. subtract
  10. In "geology", geo means:
    1. earth
    2. far
    3. sound
  11. In "vision", vis means:
    1. write
    2. pull
    3. see
  12. In "thermal", therm means:
    1. heat
    2. write
    3. light
  13. In "attract", tract means:
    1. carry
    2. pull
    3. look
  14. Which word has a root that means "far"?
    1. symphony
    2. telescope
    3. photosynthesis
  15. Which word has the prefix un-?
    1. under
    2. uncle
    3. unsafe

Part B: Write the word

  1. Put the parts together: over + pay
  2. Put the parts together: non + fiction
  3. Put the parts together: over + heat
  4. Put the parts together: over + flow
  5. Put the parts together: non + living

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