Question Purpose
The question is asking you to find this if it is worded like this: "What is the best way to describe what happened in this selection?"
What is a summary?
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
True or False: All 6th graders are required to take the 6th grade Reading STAAR.
True
What are CUPS used to check?
Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling.
This word represents the type of work virtual students will be doing in the HUB on STAAR testing days.
What is asynchronous?
The question is asking you to find this, if it is worded like this: "The details in paragraph 5 support the idea that - "
What are supporting details?
Sensory language that appeals to our five senses.
What is imagery?
This is the day of the week of the 6th grade Reading STAAR.
What is Wednesday!
These words surround and help readers figure out the definition of unknown words.
What are context clues?
What is an antonym?
The question is asking you to find this, if it is worded like this: " Which idea does the author emphasize throughout the selection?"
What is main idea?
The author's feeling towards the subject matter in the text.
What is tone?
This the duration of the 6th grade Reading STAAR.
What is four hours?
This word generally means the lesson the author wants the reader to take away from the story.
What is theme?
This figurative language exaggerates what is happening in the story for emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
The question is asking you to find this, if it is worded like this: "The author describes his experience in a way that highlights - "
What is author's purpose?
This point of view gives us insight only into the feelings and thoughts of the narrator.
What is first-person POV?
The author’s attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
These types of words/phrases help the author indirectly emphasize certain things in the story.
What is figurative language?
The wind screamed through the trees.
What kind of figurative language (author's craft) is this?
What is personification?
The question is asking you to find this, if it is worded like this: "In paragraph 5, Anthony chooses not to mention the ready-made pesto most likely because he - "
What is character motivation?
This type of figurative language uses words with the same starting letter.
What is alliteration?
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
What is personification?
A run-on sentence needs what to be fixed?
A period, conjunction, or semicolon.
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?