Story Elements
This is when/where the story takes place.
The setting
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.
The message, lesson, or moral that the author wants you to take away from the story.
What is theme.
What is text structure?
The way that an author organizes the information in a text
The order that things happen in a story
sequence of events
What type of genre has an author's claim using facts or opinions?
You do not need to annotate the passage you are reading. True or False
False: You should annotate and write notes on lined paper to help you remember what you read.
If an author's writing to persuade, inform, entertain, explain or describe it is called?
Author's purpose
How can you figure out the main idea?
Determine what the WHOLE passage is mainly about.
The series of events in a story from beginning to end.
The plot.
What type of genre provides information and facts on a specific topic?
Informational
When completing Reading STAAR you must prove your answers by finding text evidence to support your thinking.
True: This will help you get the correct answer.
Can you use pictures and captions to help you answer questions from a selection?
Yes!
What are the 5 types of text structures?
Compare and Contrast
Cause and Effect
Chronology (sequence)
Problem and Solution
Description
What point of view is a text that uses: I, me, my, we, us
First Person Point of View
What genre has character tags, settings, props and scenes?
Drama
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.
What can use to help define an unfamiliar word in a passage?
Context Clues or the Dictionary
What is an inference?
A guess made based on background knowledge and evidence from the text.
Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?
Synonyms
This type of genre uses figurative language stanzas.
Poetry
You should not go back to check your answers? True or False
False!
What is a claim or position?
It's what an author is trying to prove.
These phrases are examples of what?
The wind howled at night. The book was so popular it flew off the shelves. The last piece of pie was calling my name.
Personification - giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans.