6th Grade ELA
Story Elements
STAAR True/False
Reading
100

A type of story with characters and conflicts that could be real.

Realistic Fiction

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

Text structure refers to the way an author organizes information in a text to help readers understand the content better. Give 3 examples

  • Cause and Effect

  • Compare and Contrast

  • Sequential/Chronological 

  • Problem and Solution

  • Description

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

A type of conflict where the character has issues with a rule

external conflict

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

Which words could you use to describe the author's purpose? At least 3

teach, tell, inform, persuade, show, explain, describe

300
A type of story that contains magical elements and sometimes a transformation.

Fantasy

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 answering an ECR, what is step one?

Read with the question in mind

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

400

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

First person point of view

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

What plot element contains the majority of the story

Rising Action

500

DAILY DOUBLE!! This is a point of view where the narrator is outside of the story but knows all the characters' thoughts and feelings.

3rd Person Omniscient

500

Point of view where the narrator is outside of the story and knows only 1 character's thoughts and feelings

Third Person Limited Point of View

500

The central idea is what the text is mostly about.

True

500

The popcorn made POP, POP, POPPING noises inside the microwave as it cooked.

This is an example of what figurative language?

What is a onomatopoeia?

600

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

Argumentative

600

A type of storytelling that contains stanzas

Poetry

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

This is what we call a short statement of the main points and most important parts of a story.

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 or order of events

800

The message, moral or lesson of the story


What is Theme?

800

During STAAR testing you should read and select the option that sounds right, without reading the rest of the questions.

False, you should read all the options to make sure you are not missing a better response.

800

The problem in a story.

What is the conflict