Questions from the text
ECR
STAAR Vocab
Story elements
Wild Card
100

In paragraph 6 the word transformation means-

B

100

What is the "S" in CUPS?

Spelling

100

Excerpt

Words/Lines taken straight from the section

100

The turning point of the story. Usually the main character comes face to face with a conflict.

Climax

100

What the story is mainly about, the big picture.

Main idea, Central idea

200

How does climate affect the monarch butterfly?

H

200

You have just finished typing your ECR or SCR what do you do next?

Read it over again and revise and edit! (CUPS and ARMS)

200

WHY the author wrote the story

Author's Purpose

200

All loose ends of the plot are tied up. The conflict(s) and climax are taken care of.

Falling action

200

Using background knowledge and text clues

Inferencing

300

What guides the habits of the monarch butterlies?

D

300

Restate and answer the Question: 

How do researchers think the monarch butterflies conserve their stored engergy?

Researchers think the monarch butterflies glide on air currents to conserve their stored engergy.

300

Something important that happens in a story

Event

300

The part of the story that begins to develop the conflict(s). A building of interest or suspense occurs.

Rising action

300

A person who tells the events of the story as they are happening.

Narrartor

400

Why might the work of the lepidopterists continue?

F

400

Oh no! Fix this:

i dunno if he will male her a letters

I don't know if he will mail her a letter.

400

Procedural Text

Gives the reader step by step instructions to complete a task

400

Language that appeals to the senses. Most are visual, but can be sound, touch, smell, or taste.

Imagery

400

Giving things human characterstics.

Personification

500

What allows fourth generation monarch butterflies to survive the long migration?

C

500

Cite and Explain: 

What guides the habits of the monarch butterflies?

In paragrah __ it says "_________." This shows/proves ________. 

500

Gives info about setting, feelings or actions in a play = NOT read aloud

Stage Directions

500

When an author mentions or hints at something that will happen later in the story.

Foreshadow

500

The narrator is not one of the characters in the story, but tells the emotions, motives, and actions of ALL the characters in the story.

3rd person omniscient

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