STAAR Concepts

STAAR review

​Historical Fiction

​Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting related to the past events, but is fictional.

​Realistic Fiction

​Realistic Fiction is a genre consisting of stories that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting.

​Fiction vs Non-Fiction​

​Fiction-Fake, made up stories or events

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Non-Fiction- ​True stories/information or events that are real

​Fact vs Opinion

​Fact- Information that can be proven true, accurate

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Opinion​-your feelings or thoughts about somebody/something

Multiple Select

Select 2 choices that are facts

• Rabbits are faster than turtles.

• Elizabeth and Scarlett are the friendliest students in school.

• Mr. Morales is mean.

• Mr. Oh is the best teacher in Askew Elementary.

• The Sun is bigger than the Earth.

​Theme

​A lesson or a message to take out of the story.

Multiple Choice

Theme is

• Main points of the story

• Sequence of events in the story

• The lesson/moral the author wants to send to the readers.

• Your opinion

​Summary

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Summary covers main points of the story

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The STAAR test will have a question where you will write a summary. Use the keyword SWBST to help you answer.

​Somebody: Mulan

Wanted:​ Mulan wanted to keep her father safe.

But:​ Father gets drafted to the army

S​o: She cut her hair, stole armor, and enrolled in army

Then:​ Her identify was revealed, she proved everyone wrong and saved the emperor.

Open Ended

What is the Keyword Phrase to help you write a summary on the STAAR? Write it down below.

​Prefixes and Suffixes

​Prefix

​Prefixes are added to the beginning of an existing word in order to create a new word with a different meaning. For example:

word	prefix	new word
happy	un-	unhappy
cultural	multi-	multicultural
work	over-	overwork
space	cyber-	cyberspace
market	super-	supermarket

​Suffix

​Suffixes are added to the end of an existing word. For example:

word	suffix	new word
child	-ish	childish
work	-er	worker
taste	-less	tasteless
idol	-ize/-ise	idolize
like	-able	likeable

Multiple Choice

What does Unhappy mean?

• Lazy

• Not Happy

• Happy

• Angry

​Sensory language

​Sensory language refers to the use of words to create a connection to any of the five senses.

​:Sight, Smell, Taste, Touch, Hearing

​1st person and 3rd person point of view

​first person point of view: the narrator is a character in the story, dictating events from their perspective using "I" or "we."

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​third person point of view:

point of view, the narrator exists outside of the story and addresses the characters by name or as "he/she/they" and "him/her/them.

Multiple Choice

Yesterday My friends and I went to the movies. We watched Shrek 5 for the first time. Afterwards, my brother drove us back home and ordered pizza.

Which point of view is being used?

• First Person point of view

• Second Person point of view

• Third Person point of view

• Fourth Person point of view

Multiple Choice

Elizabeth and Beverly are best friends. They share common interests such as music and movies. Both girls also like playing tag outside and invite other students to join.

• 1st person point of view

• 2nd person point of view

• 3rd person point of view

• 4th person point of view

​Drama

Dramas follow a clearly defined narrative plot structure, portraying real-life scenarios or extreme situations with emotionally-driven characters​.

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Setting: time and location.

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Dialogue: conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.​

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​Cast: Characters in the play.

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Conflict: Problem in the story.

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Scenes: ​divide the acts each time the setting changes.

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Open Ended

Romeo: I need help with math.

Juliet: I can help you tomorrow during lunch.

Romeo: Thanks Juliet!

What Drama feature is being used for communication between the characters?

​Playwright: One who writes plays; a dramatist. The definition of a playwright is a person who composes or writes a play. William Shakespeare is an example of a playwright.

​Cast: The name for the group of people in a play.​

Plot: ​the sequence of events that make up a story, whether it’s told, written, filmed, or sung. The plot is the story, and more specifically, how the story develops, unfolds, and moves in time.

​Stage direction: an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.

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Example: 'The man deals a deck of cards' or 'Katy enters the room' are examples of stage directions. They describe the movements of the characters in the scene. Furthermore, setting description such as 'the morning sunlight fills the room' is also an example of stage direction.

​Suspense: state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of anxiety.​​

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Come on, Fran, don't keep me in suspense! I want to see what I got for my birthday!

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I was inside my room listening to music. All of a sudden, I hear the door knob moving, keeping me in suspense as I await.

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We awaited in suspense for the doctor to give us the news regarding our health.​

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Open Ended

Write a sentence using the word suspense.

Multiple Choice

What is a plot of the story?

• The sequence (order) of events in the story

• Main idea of the story

• Moral lesson of the story

• The summary of the story

Multiple Choice

Which of the choices uses stage directions?

• It will be cold tomorrow.

• The sky is blue.

• Walter passed his paper to Brainer.

• Dogs are loud animals.