5th Grade ELA
This is when 2 words means the same thing.
What is a synonym?
This is when/where the story takes place.
The setting
You should complete the STAAR as fast as possible.
Answer True/False AND EXPLAIN WHY!
False: It is more important to do your best, take your time, and use your strategies.
What is another name for time order?
Chronological Order
The person telling the story
Who is the narrator?
This figure of speech is being used in this sentence “The boy felt like a lion because he was so courageous”
What is a Simile?
The order that things happen in a story
Sequence of Events
When you make a decision about something you have read, you conclude.
Answer True/False AND EXPLAIN WHY!
True: when you conclude you use text evidence and make a decision.
The author's intent to persuade, inform, or entertain.
Author's Purpose
The person who writes a play.
Who is the playwright?
This is what you call a book that talks about a person's life from beginning to end.
What is an Biography
The series of events in a story from beginning to end that includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
The plot
When completing Reading STAAR you must prove your answers by finding text evidence to support your thinking, circle the title and text features, and read questions before reading the passage.
Answer True/False AND EXPLAIN WHY!
True: This will help you get the correct answer.
Give 3 examples of text features.
Bold print/vocabulary terms, glossary, pictures, captions, headings, graphs/tables/diagrams, bullet points, etc.
Information presented in parentheses or brackets that tell the actors in a play how to act/move or what emotion to show.
What are stage directions?
This is the a type of text which includes characters, acts, scenes and stage directions.
What is a play
What point of view is a text that uses: I, me, my, we, us?
First person point of view
Using your prior knowledge plus something you learned in class last week is called making an inference
Answer True/False AND EXPLAIN WHY!
False - an inference is the combination of prior knowledge and text evidence
The use of background knowledge and experiences from your own life in combination with specific examples from the text to make an educated guess/assumption.
What is an inference
True/False - In a poem, the poet and speaker are exactly the same thing.
Answer True/False AND EXPLAIN WHY!
FALSE! The poet and speaker CAN be the same, but they are not always. The speaker could be anything from a kid to a chocolate chip cookie.
DAILY DOUBLE!! This is what you call a point of view of someone telling the story using I, me, us, or we?
What is 1st person?
Point of view: they, she, he, you
Third Person Point of View
The main idea or the central idea is what the text is mostly about.
Answer True/False AND EXPLAIN WHY!
True - This is also called Main Idea and it is the focus of the text, supported by details
Name at least 3 of the 5 Nonfiction text structures.
Order and Sequence, Description, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Compare and Contrast
A comparison that uses like of as
What is a simile?
This is an essay that allows the writer to take a side and defend it
What is an opinion essay?
This is a piece of literature that is based on imaginary people, events and worlds
What is Fiction?
When taking the STAAR, you should stay up the night before studying.
Answer True/False AND EXPLAIN WHY!
False, you will more focused if you get a good nights sleep.
What text feature might an author include to show the parts of an object?
Diagram and Labels
What type of figurative language? The trees welcomed us as we drove up the lane.
What is personification?
This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story normally found in the back of novels.
What is a Summary?
This is conversations between characters in a literary text usually written between quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
On the day of the STAAR, you should skip breakfast.
Answer True/False AND EXPLAIN WHY!
False, you should eat a healthy breakfast and feed your brain.
What is the main idea of an argument called?
The claim
Group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
The text structure which includes words like First, next, then, finally.
What is sequence of events
The message, moral or lesson of the story
What is Theme
During STAAR testing you should listen to the questions and answer choices before reading the text.
Answer True/False AND EXPLAIN WHY!
True, the questions and answer choices will include unfamiliar words from the text and help you focus on what you are looking for in the text.
Is Google a Source? Why or why not?
NOOOO!!! Google is a search engine.
The problem or challenge in a story.
What is the conflict