Reading STAAR Review

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What is an adverb?

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An adverb describes a verb, telling us more about how an action is performed.

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What genre has a problem and solution?

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Fiction is a genre that often includes a problem and a solution.

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What genre gives you information about a certain topic?

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Informational genre provides facts and information about specific subjects.

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What are sentences always supposed to have in them?

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Sentences should always have capital letters at the beginning and punctuation at the end.

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What is the verb in this sentence? The dog jumped over the boy.

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The verb is 'jumped', which describes the action.

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What is a noun?

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A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.

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What is a subject in a sentence?

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The subject is who or what the sentence is about.

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What is a predicate in a sentence?

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The predicate tells what the subject does or is.

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What is a simile?

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A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes one thing as if it were another.