State Testing Vocabulary

The message or meaning that the author is trying to come across. The message is universal and should apply to everyone.

• Theme

• Main Idea

• Inference

• Stanza

A single line of a poem.

• poem

• meter

• verse

• stanza

A piece of writing that is a play and can include costumes, stage directions, props, sets, script, and dialogue.

• connection

• Poetry

• Prose

• Drama

When the reader makes a connection between the text and the events that happened in the real world.

• Text to self connection

• Text to World connection

• Text to animal connection

• Text to text connection

The pattern of rhyming words in a poem.

• Rhyme Scheme

• Meter

• Nursery Rhyme

• Verse

A piece of writing that uses Figurative Language is written in stanzas and often has meter and rhyme.

• Verse

• Drama

• Poetry

• Prose

A grouping of lines in a poem similar to a paragraph.

• Theme

• Rhyme

• Meter

• Stanza

When a reader makes a connection between themselves and the text.

• Text to World connection

• Text to Self connection

• Text to Character connection

• Text to Text connection

When a reader uses both the text and their outside knowledge to make a prediction. (Read between the lines)

• Theme

• Drama

• Inference

• Observation

The pattern of beats throughout a poem.

• Verse

• Meter

• Rhyme Scheme

• a drum