Story Elements
This is when/where the story takes place.
The setting
This is when two words sound the same but are spelled differently.
A homophone
You should complete the STAAR as fast as possible.
False: It is more important to do your best, take your time, and use your strategies.
The message, lesson, or moral that the author wants you to take away from the story.
Theme
Characters are having a conversation
What is dialogue?
The order that things happen in a story
sequence of events
Point of view: they, she, he, you
Third person point of view.
When you make a decision about something you have read, you conclude
True: when you conclude you use text evidence and make a decision
If an author's writing persuades, informs, or entertains that is called?
Author's purpose
A comparison of two things that uses like or as
What is a simile?
The series of events in a story from beginning to end.
The plot.
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
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?
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.
The trees welcomed us as we drove up the lane
What is personification?
What point of view is a text that uses: I, me, my, we, us
First Person Point of View
What is this sentence an example of?
Billy baked brownies for Becky.
Alliteration
When completing Reading STAAR test it is best to take a brain break after completing a passage and questions. True or False?
True: When you take a break and relax that allows your brain an opportunity to rest before continuing on to the next passage.
This is what the story is mostly about?
Main Idea
The message, moral or lesson of the story
What is the theme?
Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?
Synonyms
To draw conclusions by using text evidence & connecting bits of information
Inferencing
The main idea or the central idea is what the text is mostly about
True!
How author's organize their text
Text Structure
Compare & contrast, problem & solution, cause & effect, descriptive, sequential order. These are examples of what?
What are text structures