What should you do if the question says: "Why did the author use the simile in paragraph 3?"
What is going back and reread?
100
BC/MC/ER
What is fiction summary
100
This is how the reader feels when they read a text
What is mood?
100
Identify the figurative language "John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution."
What is a metaphor?
200
The strategy used to help a reader FOCUS on what the question is really asking
What is underlining key words
200
Combine the main ideas
What is non-fiction summary
200
How the author felt when they wrote the text.
What is tone?
200
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?
300
Do this to help improve your comprehension of the text.
What is annotating?
300
Use the words from the text to make pictures or movies in your mind
What is visualize
300
life lesson
What is theme?
300
Identify the figurative language: "The thunder clapped angrily in the distance."
What is personification?
400
Do this when you don't know the meaning of a word on STAAR
What is look it up in the dictionary?
400
Use these to help you summarize non-ficiton
What is subtitles?
400
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza
400
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
500
Think about this when if feel like giving up.
What is mouse in the trap?
500
Always look at the background of this
What is a graphic
500
A claim or statement that can be a fact or opinion
What is an assertion?
500
Identify the figurative language: "Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August."