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