vocabulary staar reading

What is alliteration?

• the repetition of consonant SOUNDS at the beginning of words. For example, Sally sells seashells by the sea shore.

• The reason why something happens

• In the time order in which events happened

• helpful

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What are captions?

• the turning point in the action of a story- the problem is solved

• make visible

• small text found near a picture that provides important information about the picture

• where information comes from

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

What is plot?

• giving human qualities to non-human things

• a comparison or two unlike things without using like or as

• the events that make up a story

• writing that tells how to do something

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is convey?

• a division or type of literature

• to disagree; to say the opposite

• a character trait used to describe someone who feels good about him/herself

• To communicate or express; make known

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is drama?

• following rules or customs; often in an exact and proper way

• a story written to be performed by actors; a play

• when a portion of the story goes back in time

• a collection of word pictures that appeal to the reader

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is main idea?

• What a piece of writing is mainly about

• the various methods of communicating information

• a beginning or coming into being

• something that gets in the way of a goal

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is dialogue?

• told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" and "we"

• a conversation between two people

• to show

• when two words rhyme in the same line of poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is compare and contrast?

• when and where a story takes place

• the use of words that represent sounds

• shows how 2 or more things are alike and different

• how the conflict is solved or fixed

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is a narrator?

• the person who is telling the story; the speaker

• the perspective from which a story is told

• a drawing or picture

• to prove that something is right by giving reasons

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is foreshadow?

• to show

• all of the events that make up a story

• another word for non-fiction

• the use of clues to suggest events that will happend later in the plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3