STAAR Reading Vocabulary Review

context clues

• words that represent sound

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

• a word part that is added to the beginning of a word to make a new word.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

flashback

• the sequence of events in a story

• clues that something will happen later in the story

• when the story goes back in time

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

stage direction

• the problem of the story

• instructions for actors

• an exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.10

fiction

• Writing that is factual

• literary work that is not real.

• a conversation between 2 people.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

onomatopoeia

• a comparison using like or as

• an exaggeration

• words that represent a sound

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

narrator

• the turning point of a story

• speaker or person who is telling the story

• when the story back in time.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

hyperbole

• an exaggeration

• a comparison using like or as

• a comparison without using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

climax

• the problem of the story

• the perspective from which a story is told

• Also known as the turning point

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

expository

• person who writes a play or drama

• text that inform, gives instructions, and is nonfiction

• a literary work that is not true

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

main idea

• what a piece of writing is mainly about

• giving human qualities to non human things

• the turning point

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2