STAAR Review Reading

STAAR SURVIVOR

​6TH GRADE READING LANGUAGE ARTS VOCABULARY REVIEW

BASKETBALL ROUND​

Each question your team gets correct, you will get a point and a chance to shoot the basketball for points.

Multiple Choice

definition: clues in text that help the reader determine the meaning of a word

• flashback

• drawing conclusion

• context clues

• climax

Multiple Choice

definition: when the story goes back in time

• flashback

• resolution

• foreshadow

• suffix

Multiple Choice

definition: instructions for actors

• dialogue

• drama

• narrator

• stage directions

Multiple Choice

definition: literary work that is not real. It is usually made up.

• poetry

• nonfiction

• fiction

• drama

Multiple Choice

definition: words that represents sounds

• onomatopoeia

• figurative language

• alliteration

• personification

Multiple Choice

definition: sensory language in writing

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• personification

• repetition

Multiple Choice

definition: speaker or the person who is telling the story

• author

• narrator

• talker

• reader

Multiple Choice

definition: an exaggeration (this is a type of figurative language)

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• pun

JENGA ROUND

If your team gets the question correct, you get 1 point and a chance to pull a Jenga piece. If you pull a piece and it doesn’t fall you get another 1 point. If you pull the piece and it does fall your team gets -5 points.

Multiple Choice

definition: the turning point of the story

• climax

• rising action

• resolution

• problem

Multiple Choice

definition: what a piece of writing is mainly about

• thesis statement

• detail

• key idea

• main idea

Multiple Choice

definition: a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

• similar

Multiple Choice

definition: the sequence of events in a story; the story outline

• outline

• conflict

• chronological order

• plot

Multiple Choice

definition: when and where the story takes place

• setting

• beginning

• opening

• time

Multiple Choice

definition: clues the indicate something will happen later on in the story or future

• future

• foreshadow

• flashback

• preminition

Multiple Choice

definition: parts of a text that stand out (diagram, table of contents, etc)

• table of contents

• text features

• illustrations

• caption

EGG BALANCE ROUND

Get it correct, you will get a point, if it’s incorrect you will get a -1. After each question that you answer you will have to balance the egg on the spoon, make a circle around the room and come back to your home base. You will have to pass off their egg to the next person after they answer the question. If they drop the egg, they have to come back and start over. If you drop the egg at the hand off, the person that just went in a circle will have to go around again and try to pass off a second time. Whoever finishes first with AT LEAST half of their questions answered correctly will get 5 points, 2nd will get 3 points and 3rd will get 2 points.

Multiple Choice

definition: the reason a story is written– to persuade, inform, entertain or explain

• main idea

• theme

• PIEE

• author's purpose

Multiple Choice

definition: the perspective from which the story is told

• point of view

• narrator

• first person

• author

Multiple Choice

definition: the “paragraph” in a poem

• stanza

• lines

• blank space/white space

Multiple Choice

definition: the central idea or message of a story

• theme

• key idea

• main idea

• supporting details