5th grade STAAR reading vocabulary

Something that has happened or can be proven

• Opinion
• Message
• Fact
• Tone

the reason the author writes (persuade, inform, entertain)

• point of view
• author's purpose
• author's style
• fact

position or perspective from which a story is told

• conclusion
• genre
• message
• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

Lesson/ message

• theme

• mood

• tone

• genre

Logical guess made by connecting bits of information (drawing conclusions, making generalizations, etc.)

• SUMMARY
• ANTAGONIST
• PARAPHRASE
• INFERENCE

to restate the meaning of something in different words

• GIST
• THEME
• PARAPHRASE
• SUMMARY

the central or universal idea or piece of fiction or the main idea of a nonfiction

• THEME
• SETTING
• ALLUSION
• CHARACTER

time and place of a text

• CHARACTER
• PLOT
• SETTING
• EXPOSITION

person/animal in a story

• PROTAGONIST
• GIST
• ANTAGONIST
• CHARACTER

the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text

• ANTAGONIST
• PROTAGONIST
• CHARACTER
• SETTING