STAAR Reading 1
The moral or lesson in the story
What is theme?
Identify the type of figurative language used here: Crash! The car hit the tree.
Onomatopoeia
First person or third person point of view: how do you know.
Yesterday I went a got a new toy for my dog.
What is first person? It uses the pronouns I, my,
How many sentences should the SCR (short) writing prompt have?
2
What does "genre" mean?
When 2 characters in a play have a conversation, this is called___________.
What is dialogue?
What type of figurative language is this?
It took us a million year to make it home last night.
Hyperbole
Which point of view?
When Jessie's family finished eating, they all went to the backyard to watch the fireworks. Jessie smiled and thought how beautiful everything looked. Her family stared in amazement.
What is third person
The author's purpose for writing the article about Hony Yi that we read today is __________.
What is to inform?
What is the setting?
Michael sat nervously in the waiting room with his mom. He hoped they could figure out why his throat was hurting, but he did not want to be here.
What is a doctor's office?
What is the author's purpose:
You should really visit Disneyland. It is the best place on earth!
What is persuade?
Identify the type figurative language used here:
The tree reached for the sky, trying to touch the stars.
What is personification?
The solution to a story is called the _________.
What is resolution?
What inference can you make?
Mr. Eddison told his students that they needed
to take all their personal belongings home. He
gave his students a speech about how lucky he
was to have them in his class. When the
dismissal bell rang, the student rushed out of
the school with excitement.
It is the last day of school
What type of sound device is used in this poem?
Crack an Egg.
stir the butter.
Break the yolk.
Make it flutter.
Stroke the heat.
Hear it sizzle.
Onomatopoeia
Identify the type of figurative language used here:
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.
Alliteration
Pictures, captions, bold print, title, diagram, and sub headings are examples of _______________.
What are informational text features?
Identify the figurative language:
The detective listened to her story with a wooden face.
What is a metaphor?
Megan was excited because it was her birthday. She opened up her present and shouted, “Woohooo! I can't wait to text my friends!”
You can infer that Megan's gift was a __________.
cell phone
What type of sound device is this?
Fred found five frogs in Florida.
alliteration
In drama, these give the reader extra information about the characters. They are usually in italics.
What are stage directions?
What does the word emphasize mean?
Identify the point of view of the following paragraph; How do you know (evidence):
Sally walked to the park and picked up the frisbee.
What is 3rd person? My evidence is that it uses Sally
Mrs. Adams said, “Be sure to check
your answers to make sure they are
accurate before turning in your test.”
What does accurate mean in this
sentence?
correct
What does a glossary do?
Gives the definitions or meaning of words