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STAAR strategies
Reading Strategies
Author's Purpose and Point of View
Analyze text and characters
Poetry
100
What do you need plenty of?
Rest
100
Before you read the story, preview the title, subtitles, bold words, and pictures. These are called
text features
100
the goal of the author for writing a story
author's purpose
100
the central idea or lesson learned
theme
100
the use of words that sound like what they mean like: buzz, snap
otomatopeia
200
Make sure you eat a good ___________.
breakfast.
200
to think about what will happen next or in the future of a story using text evidence
prediction
200
when a character is telling the story
1st person
200
after gathering infomration the reader comes to a decision
drawing a conclusion
200
the repeating of the same sounds at the beginning of words
alliteration
300
Make sure you _____________ the story.
read
300
to reduce large text to a smaller one with the main idea and important details
summary
300
when the author or narrator is telling the story
3rd person
300
how an author describes a charater's personality
character traits
300
making an object or animal act like a person: the chair is calling my name
personification
400
Always ___________ your answers.
prove
400
the overall message of the story or the point the author is trying to make
main idea
400
the lesson learned in a fable
moral
400
the event and the result of the event
cause and effect
400
comparing two nouns using like or as: as fast as lightning
simile
500
Do your __________!
best
500
to make an educated guess made by connecting bits of information
infer
500
when an author writes to try to convince the reader of an argument
persuade
500
the order in which events occur in the story
sequence (chronological if in order)
500
comparing two nouns without using like or as: The cheetah is lightning. He is so fast.
metaphor