5th Grade ELA
Story Elements
STAAR True/False
Reading
100

This is when 2 words means the same thing.

 What is a synonym?

100

This is when/where the story takes place.

The setting

100

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.



100

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

Theme

200

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?

200

The order that things happen in a story

Sequence of Events

200

True or False: When you make a decision about something you have read, you come to a conclusion.

True: when you conclude you use text evidence and make a decision.

200

The author's intent to persuade, inform, or entertain.

Author's Purpose

300

This is what you call a book that talks about a person's life from beginning to end.

What is an Biography

300

The series of events in a story from beginning to end that includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

The plot

300

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

True: This will help you get the correct answer.

300

Give 3 examples of text features.

Bold print/vocabulary terms, glossary, pictures, captions, headings, graphs/tables/diagrams, bullet points, etc.

400

This is the a type of text which includes characters, acts, scenes and stage directions.

What is a play/playwright/drama production

400

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

First person point of view

400

Using your prior knowledge plus something you learned in class last week is called making an inference

False - an inference is the combination of prior knowledge and text evidence

400

The use of background knowledge and experiences from your own life in combination with specific examples from the text.

What is an inference

500

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?

500

Point of view: they, she, he, you

Third Person Point of View

500

The main idea or the central idea is what the text is mostly about.

True

500

A comparison that uses like of as

What is a simile?

600

This is an essay that allows the writer to take a side and defend it

What is an opinion essay?

600

This is a piece of literature that is based on imaginary people, events and worlds

What is Fiction?

600

When taking the STAAR, you should stay up the night before studying.

False, you will more focused if you get a good nights sleep.

600

The trees welcomed us as we drove up the lane - is an example of what type of figurative language?

What is personification

700

Somebody Wanted But So Then is an example of how to write a ___.

What is a Summary?

700

This is conversations between characters in a literary text usually written between quotation marks.

What is dialogue?

700

On the day of the STAAR, you should skip breakfast.

False, you should eat a healthy breakfast and feed your brain.

700

Group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.

What is a stanza?

800

The order in which things begin and end using words like First, next, then, finally.

What is sequence of events

800

The message, moral or lesson of the story


What is Theme

800

True or False: You should use a dictionary and context clues to determine word meaning.

True

800

The problem or challenge in a story.

What is the conflict