Reading STAAR Test
Fiction
Poetry
Drama
Key Vocabulary
100
The number of field questions on the Reading STAAR test

What is 6

100
A make believe story that is meant to entertain readers, but has elements of could not happen in real life. Includes a plot, characters, and a setting.

What is Fiction?

100

The 4 types of poems

What is free verse, narrative, humorous, and lyrical?

100

The text that a drama is made of

What is Dialogue?
100

A conclusion reached based on text evidence and schema

What is an inference?

200

Number of regular questions on the STAAR test

What is 36

200

A made up story that has events that could take place in real life. The plot, events, and setting are all believeable.

What is Realistic Fiction?

200

The pattern of rhyming words in a poem

What is rhyme scheme?

200

text in brackets or parenthesis that shows the actors how to act

What are Stage Directions?

200

how the problem is solved

What is a solution or resolution?

300

4 genres that will be tested on the Reading STAAR

What is poetry, informational, drama, fiction
300

The events that make up the main part of a story.

What is Plot?

300

The rhythm of stressed syllables in a poem

What is meter?

300

Large sections a drama is broken into

What is an act?

300

When a story has something to reach its reader.

What is a lesson, moral, or message?

400

Three possible field test options

What is a paired passage, a normal passage, or a revising and editing passage

400

The time and place the story takes place

What is Setting?

400

figurative language that compares two things using like or as

What is a simile?

400

A person who writes a play

What is a Playwright?

400

Conversation, or talk, between two or more people

What is Dialogue?

500

You must have this done before turning in your Reading STAAR test

What is a bubble sheet/answer document?

500
The person or animal the story is about

What is a character?

500

Figurative language that compares two things without using like or as

What is metaphor?

500

Items that actors use in a drama

What is a prop?

500

When you find the similarities or differences between two things

What is comparing and contrasting?