5th Grade ELA
This is when 2 words means the same thing.
What is a synonym?
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.
Theme
How many dogs does Miss Latham have?
2
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?
The order that things happen in a story
Sequence of Events
When you make a decision about something you have read, you conclude.
True: when you conclude you use text evidence and make a decision.
The author's intent to persuade, inform, or entertain.
Author's Purpose
What is Miss Latham's favorite Candy?
Nerds Gummy Clusters
This is what you call a book that talks about a person's life from beginning to end.
What is a Biography?
The series of events in a story from beginning to end that includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
The plot
When completing Reading STAAR you should answer the questions first and then go back and annotate the text.
False: The point of annotating is to help you understand the text so that it will be easier for you to answer the questions.
Give 3 examples of text features.
Bold print/vocabulary terms, glossary, pictures, captions, headings, graphs/tables/diagrams, bullet points, etc.
What school did Miss Latham graduate from?
Baylor
This is the a type of text which includes characters, acts, scenes and stage directions.
What is a play
What point of view is a text that uses: I, me, my, we, us?
First person point of view
Using your prior knowledge plus something you learned in class last week is called making an inference
False - an inference is the combination of prior knowledge and text evidence
The use of background knowledge and experiences from your own life in combination with specific examples from the text.
What is an inference
What is Miss Latham's favorite drink?
This is what you call a point of view of someone telling the story using I, me, us, or we?
What is 1st person?
Point of view: they, she, he, you
Third Person Point of View
The main idea or the central idea is what the text is mostly about.
True
A comparison that uses like of as
What is a simile?
What is Miss Latham's favorite color?
Pink
This is an essay that allows the writer to take a side and defend it
What is an argumentative essay?
This is a piece of literature that is based on imaginary people, events and worlds
What is Fiction?
When taking the STAAR, you should stay up the night before studying.
False, you will more focused if you get a good nights sleep.
The trees welcomed us as we drove up the lane.
What is personification?
How many years has Miss Latham been teaching?
5
This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story normally found in the back of novels.
What is a Summary?
This is conversations between characters in a literary text usually written between quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
On the day of the STAAR, you should skip breakfast.
False, you should eat a healthy breakfast and feed your brain.
Group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
What are Miss Latham's dogs' names?
Coco & Chip
The order in which things begin and end using words like First, next, then, finally.
What is sequence of events
The message, moral or lesson of the story
What is Theme
During STAAR testing you should try and answer the questions before you read the text.
False, you should read the text prior to answering the questions. You can PREVIEW the questions, but not answer.
The problem or challenge in a story.
What is the conflict
Who is your favorite 5th grade reading teacher?
Miss Latham, DUH