Drama
Text Features
Text Structure
Poetry
STAAR
100

The moral or lesson in the story

Theme

100

It calls attention to new and important words

Bold print

100

How information in a passage is organized

Text Structure

100

The "sentences" of a poem is called

Lines

100

Two passages about similar topics is called 

Paired passages

200

Lines of a play the characters speak

Dialogue

200

This gives the heading and beginning page of each section of the book (it is found at the beginning of the book)

Table of contents

200

What is the text structure:

The students did not study. They performed badly on the test.

Cause & Effect

200

The "paragraphs" of a poem

Stanzas

200

An extended constructed response has multiple paragraphs?

True or false

True

300

The text of a play, including the dialogue the actors speak and stage directions

Script

300

It is a picture made with a camera that shows how things look in real life.

Photograph

300

A recipe for chocolate cake would be written using what text structure?

Sequence

300

What type language is found in poetry

Figurative language

300

When answering a constructed response what writing strategy should you used?

RATE

400

 The sequence of events in a play

Plot

400

I use this text feature to find a location

Map

400

What's the text structure:

Bobby keeps forgetting his homework on his desk. Bobby decided to put his homework in his lunch bag so that he won't forget it.


Problem & Solution

400

What is the rhyme scheme:

Mary has a little lamb

Its fleece was white as snow

Everywhere that Mary went

The lamb was sure to go

ABCB

400

When you use your prior knowledge AND evidence from the text to form a new idea, this is called a/an_____________.

Inference

500

 A written story told through the characters dialogue to be read by actors

Drama

500

It is like a dictionary in a book, that tells the definitions of vocabulary words

Glossary

500

What's the text structure:

The Olympic Games are a 2-week celebration featuring thousands of gifted athletes from around the world competing in 28 different disciplines. One of the more popular disciplines during the summer games centers on pool sports. The aquatic events, like diving, swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo, etc., are a favorite of many. Gymnastics is another type of discipline. It consists of trampoline events, artistic gymnastics, as well as rhythmic gymnastics. Additional disciplines include track and field, figure skating, and winter outdoor sports.

Description

500

What is the author's purpose:

I made myself a snowball

As perfect as could be

I thought I'd keep it as a pet and let it sleep with me

I made it some pajamas and a pillow for it's head

Then last night it ran away, but first it wet the bed

Entertain

500

The reason the author writes something

Author's purpose

M
e
n
u