Story Elements
5th Grade Reading
5th Grade STAAR True/False
Reading Continued
5th Grade ELAR
100

This is when/where the story takes place.

The setting

100

This is when two words sound the same but are spelled differently. 

A homophone 

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

100

Characters are having a conversation

what is dialogue?

200

The order that things happen in a story

sequence of events

200

Point of view: they, she, he, you

Third person point of view.

200

When you make a decision about something you have read, you conclude

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

200

If an author's writing persuades, informs, or entertains that is called?

Author's purpose

200

A comparison that uses like or as

What is a simile?

300

The series of events in a story from beginning to end.

The plot.

300

A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.

What is a stanza?

300

When completing Reading STAAR you must prove your answers by finding text evidence to support your thinking, circle the title and text features, and read questions before reading the passage?

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.

300

The trees welcomed us as we drove up the lane

What is personification?

400

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

First Person Point of View

400

What is this sentence an example of? 

Billy baked brownies for Becky.

Alliteration

400

When completing Reading STAAR test it is best to take a brain break after completing a passage and questions. True or False?

True: When you take a break and relax that allows your brain an opportunity to rest before continuing on to the next passage. 

400

This is what the story is mostly about?

Main Idea

400

The message, moral or lesson of the story

What is the theme?

500

Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?

Synonyms

500

To draw conclusions by using text evidence & connecting bits of information

Inferencing

500

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

True!

500

How author's organize their text

Text Structure

500

Compare & contrast, problem & solution, cause & effect, descriptive, sequential order. These are examples of what?

What are text structures