6th 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.
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
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.
True: when you conclude you use text evidence and make a decision.
The author's intent to persuade, inform, or entertain.
Author's Purpose
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.
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.
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
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.
Characters are having a conversation.
Dialogue
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
Third Person Point of View
The main idea or the central idea is what the text is mostly about.
True
A comparison that uses like or 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.
False, you will more focused if you get a good nights sleep.
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.
False, you should eat a healthy breakfast and feed your brain.
Group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
The order in which things begin and end using 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 read the questions and answer choices before reading the text.
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.
The problem or challenge in a story.
What is the conflict