Story Elements
Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?
Synonyms
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
Dialogue
Point of view: they, she, he, them
3rd Person POV
This is often revealed as characters work to resolve conflict, and the plot comes to the resolution
Author's message
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 type of figurative language that uses exaggeration
Hyperbole
The series of events in a story from beginning to end.
The plot.
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
Stanzas
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.
Two types of author's voice
Register - informal/formal tone of the speaker
Dialect - how setting can affect language
What point of view is a text that uses: I, me, my, we, us
1st Person POV
I know when writing an SCR after reading a text, I need to use ______
ACE
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?
Central Idea
What PIEED stands for
Persuade, Inform, Explain how, Entertain, Describe
A style of writing that may look like a letter (example on board)
Correspondence
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
3 types of connections we can make with the text:
Text to _______, text to _______, text to _______
Text to world, text to self, text to text