5th Grade Reading STAAR Vocabulary

refers to a story that is made up

• Fiction 
• Informational 
• Drama
• Poem 

tells a true story

• Drama
• Fiction 
• Nonfiction 
• Poetry 

to restate what happens, using your own words

• give credit 
• summary 
• parphrase 
• infer 

a few sentences that state the main points or events from the entire passage.  Something from beginning, middle, and end.  No minor details are given in a summary

• paraphrase 
• summary 
• infer 
• give credit 

when a character tells the story (uses the words I and we to tell the story)

• First-person
• Third-person
• Third-person limited
• Third-person omniscient 

narrator tells the story, not a character. (uses he, she, and they)

• First-person
• Third-person
• Third-person limited
• Third-person omniscient 

when the narrator knows the thoughts/feelings of the main character

• First-person
• Third-person
• Third-person limited
• Third-person omniscient 

when the narrator knows the thoughts/feelings of many characters

• First-person
• Third-person
• Third-person limited
• Third-person omniscient 

tells the story of a person’s life and written by someone else

• Autobiography
• Biography 
• Informational 
• Nonfiction 

gives facts and information about a topic (like a textbook or newspaper article)

• Autobiography
• Biography 
• Informational 
• Expository text