STRATEGIES
These are extra things that can be found on a page along with a passage. Some examples are graphs, headings, and subheadings.
What are text features?
This kind of story is made up or make believe.
What is fiction?
A text feature that shows important events and their dates.
What is a timeline?
These people are the characters in a play/drama.
What are actors?
These are like sentences and paragraphs to a poem.
What are lines and stanzas?
The first strategy you want to do when you receive your STAAR passage.
What is deconstruct the questions?
This kind of story has real people and gives true events.
What is nonfiction?
This kind of text feature is usually the most common type of graphic in a non-fiction passage.
What is a photograph?
Actors use this to read their lines off of.
What is a script?
When the ends of words at the ends of lines sound the same.
What is a rhyme?
Do this as a way to check your answer choice and make sure you chose the best one.
What is prove the wrong answers wrong?
Perspective from which the story is told mainly using I, my, and me.
What is 1st person point of view?
A text structure an author uses to show similarities and differences among things.
What is compare/contrast?
When actors are talking to each other in the drama.
What is a dialogue?
This kind of poem doesn't follow a rhyme scheme or has no rhymes.
What is a free-verse poem?
This is a good strategy utilize when reading a nonfiction passage to make sure you get the gist of each paragraph before moving on to the next paragraph.
What is hashtag your paragraphs?
A story that is made up, but the events could happen.
What is realistic fiction?
You can find this under a photo or other graphic in an expository passage.
What is a caption?
This tells the actor what to do or how to say his lines.
What are stage directions?
Poetry often uses language that is not to be taken literally. Hyperbole, metaphor, and simile are examples of this.
What is figurative language?
This is a good strategy to use when you come to the end of your passage and you want to make sure you comprehend the main idea of the passage and the major details/events of the story.
What is write a summary?
The perspective from which a story is told by an outside observer who knows ALL the characters' thoughts and feelings.
What is 3rd person omniscient point of view?
The main purpose of expository writing is to do this.
What is explain or inform?
The items used in a play/drama.
What are props?
This is language that creates pictures in your mind that appeal to your five senses.
What is sensory imagery?