STAAR strategies
Reading Strategies
Author's Purpose and Point of View
Analyze text and characters
Poetry
100

What should you do before reading the passage

read questions or ask for them to be read to you

100

Cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence, and problem solution are examples of:

text structure

100
the reason the author writes a text
author's purpose
100
the central idea or lesson learned
theme
100
the use of words that sound like what they mean like: buzz, snap
otomatopeia
200

what should you do as you read the questions?

Q or hashtag 

200

to think about what will happen next or in the future of a story using text evidence

foreshadow

200
when a character is telling the story
1st person
200
The events that make up a story
plot
200
the repeating of the same sounds at the beginning of words
alliteration
300

When answering questions it is important to?

go back to the passage to find the answer

300

to reduce large text to a smaller one with the main idea and important details 

summary

300

when the author or narrator is telling the story

3rd person

300
how an author describes a character's personality
character traits
300

making an object or animal act like a person: the chair is calling my name

personification

400

Always ___________ your answers.

prove

400

What the story is mostly about

main idea

400
the lesson learned in a fable
moral
400
the tuning point in a story
climax
400
comparing two nouns using like or as: as fast as lightning
simile
500

What part of the passage can help you identify the main idea?

the title

500

to make an educated guess made by connecting bits of information

infer

500
when an author writes to try to convince the reader of an argument
persuade
500
the order in which events occur in a text
sequence (chronological if in order)
500
comparing two nouns without using like or as: The cheetah is lightning. He is so fast.
metaphor
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