Story Elements
Miscellaneous
4th Grade STAAR
Reading
4TH Grade Grammar
100

This is when/where the story takes place.

The setting

100

2x12=?

What is 24

100

You should complete the STAAR as fast as possible. True or False??

False: It is more important to do your best, take your time, and use your strategies.

100

The message, lesson, or moral that the author wants you to take away from the story.

What is theme.

100

What part of speech are a person, place, thing, or idea?

noun

200

What is the conversation or words said in a drama/play called?

dialogue

200

An acute triangle is greater or less than 90 degrees?

What is less than 90 degrees.

200

STAAR Online: You should wait for directions from your teacher, follow the prompts, and not get ahead of the teacher when they are speaking. True or False?

True: You do not click ahead, work ahead, etc. You should listen to directions and follow along.

200

If an author's writing to persuade, inform, entertain, explain or describe it is called?

Author's purpose

200

This part of speech is an action word.

A verb 

300

The author's purpose of a fictional text is to 

entertain, tell a story

300

56 divided 7=?

What is 8.

300

When completing Reading STAAR you must prove your answers by finding text evidence to support your thinking. True or False?

True: This will help you get the correct answer.

300

Can you use pictures and captions to help you answer questions from a selection?

Yes!

300

What are the adjectives in the following sentence.

Ex:  The pretty girl played with the small cat.

pretty and small

400

What point of view is a text that uses: I, me, my, we, us

First Person Point of View

400

True or False?

The sun is a planet.

What is false?  The sun is a star.

400

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. 

400

If you cannot determine the meaning of a word by using content clues or word replacement test, you should look it up in a dictionary. True or False?

True.

400

A compound sentence is when two complete sentences are combined using a coordinating conjunction (and, so, but) and what else? 

a comma 

500

Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?

Synonyms

500

What are two lines that cross and form 90 degree angles? 

What are perpendicular lines

500

These are all true or false: 

Each test you will have 4 hours to complete it (NOT UNLESS YOU HAVE EXTRA TIME). If you don't know an answer, flag it and come back to it. Ask permission by raising your hand to go to the bathroom. Remain silent during and after the test. Take your time. No cell phones. 

True!

500

When you read, 

"In the next two selections..."

What does this mean on a test?

There is a paired passage.  Make sure your questions match the story you are reading.

500

These phrases are examples of what type of figurative language?

The wind howled at night. The book was so popular it flew off the shelves. The last piece of pie was calling my name.

Personification - giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans.

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