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Reading Skills
Fiction
Poetry
Expository Text
Beyond the Words
Vocabulary
100
The "voice" of a work; the narrator's perspective.
What is point of view?
100
A character or force that is in conflict with a main character.
What is antagonist?
100
Grouped lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
A statement that cannot be proven true or false.
What is an opinion?
100
Identify the type of figurative language being used: "John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution."
What is a metaphor?
100

The ending or outcome to a story.

What is resolution? 
200
The three types of author's purpose: 
What is to persuade, inform, and entertain?
200
The overall lesson that can be learned from the story; a repeated idea in a literary text 
What is theme?
200
Descriptions that appeal to the five senses.
What is sensory imagery? 
200

This is a proven statement used to support the author's claim.

What is a fact? 

200

Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."

What is a simile?
200

The type of strategy I will use to crust the STAAR test

What is PLORE? 

300
The narrator is an observer, but can also zoom in on the thoughts and emotions of any character. 
What is third person omniscient?
300

Written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks.

What is dialogue?

300

similes, metaphors, and personification are examples of this; pushes beyond the literal meaning of words 

What is the use of figurative language? 

300

What are the 3 parts of an expository text?

What is Introduction, Body, Conclusion?

300
Identify the figurative language: "The thunder clapped angrily in the distance."
What is personification?
300

Words that represent actual sounds.

What is onomatopoeia? 
400
How a passage is put together (ex. cause and effect, sequencing, problem-solution, chronological order, etc.)
What is the organizational structure?
400

These three things need to be present for a complete summary.

What is beginning, middle, and end?

400

The feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage.

What is mood?

400

To accompany the text, the author uses graphics, sidebars, subtitles, and bolded/italicized words/phrases also known as 

What is text text structures/features?

400

Identify the type of figurative language: "Micaela and I are going to hang out and shoot the breeze before the movie since we arrived early to the theater."

What is an idiom?
400

A story written to be performed.

What is a play or drama?

500
The elements of plot structure in a story. 
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution? 

500

The two types of conflict a character can experience.

What is internal and external?

500

Name a common type of poetry. 

What is an epic poem? (a poem with a story line and follows the adventures of a hero; usually long and have rhythm and repetition) 


What is a narrative poem? (a poem that tells a story but is much shorter than an epic poem; usually follows the plot diagram)


What is a lyrical poem? (a poem that expresses thoughts and emotions and contains rhyme and rhythm/meter)

What is a free verse poem? (a poem that has no rhyme or regular rhythm).

What is a couplet? (paired lines)

What is a haiku?


500

The purpose of the first few sentences in a body paragraph.

What is to state the main idea/topic of the paragraph that illustrates the claim the author is proving? 

500
Identify the figurative language: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What is hyperbole?
500

A conclusion drawn based on information presented.

What is an inference?