| FICTION | ||
| #1 | What does fiction mean? | Fake, not real |
| #2 | What is a theme? | Lesson or message author wants reader to remember |
| #3 | What is a setting? | Where and when the story takes place |
| #4 | What is a summary? | tells about a whole passage in a few sentences (beginning, middle, end) |
| #5 | What is a sequence of events? | putting events in the order they happened (first, second, next, last) |
| NONFICTION | ||
| #1 | What is nonfiction? | Real, True Story |
| #2 | What is a biography? | a true story that someone writes about someone else |
| #3 | What is an autobiography? | a true story that someone writes about themelves |
| #4 | What is main idea? | what a text is mostly about |
| #5 | What are some text features? | pictures, table of contents, graphs, charts, diagrams, captions, etc. |
| POETRY | ||
| #1 | What is a stanza? | group of lines that give a poem its form |
| #2 | What is a rhyme? | words that have the same ending sound (bat, hat) |
| #3 | What is a simile? | a comparison using like or as |
| #4 | Who is the speaker? | the narrator of the poem |
| #5 | What is personification? | animals/objects talk or act like people |
| STAAR WORDS | ||
| #1 | What is 1st person? | someone in the story is telling the story (I, my, we, us) |
| #2 | What is 3rd person? | someone else is telling the story (they, him, her, she, you) |
| #3 | What is the author's purpose? | the reason that the author wrote the passage (persuade, inform, entertain) |
| #4 | What is a synonym? Antonym? | synonym-same, antonym-opposite |
| #5 | What is a base word? Prefix and Suffix? | b-word that a prefix or suffix is added to/p-word part added to beginning/s-word part added to end |
| SURPRISE! | ||
| #1 | What is a narrator? | person telling the story |
| #2 | What is repetition? | repeating lines or phrases in a poem |
| #3 | What is an illustration? | a picture |
| #4 | What is an example of alliteration? | more than one word begins with same sound (big babies blowing bubbles) |
| #5 | What are some examples of types of poems? | free verse-no rhyme, lyrical-feeling, narrative-story |
| Final Question | |
| What are some things you can do to help yourself pass the STAAR test? | Use your strategies, prove your answers, take your time, try your hardest |