Reading STAAR Vocabulary Practice

What is the definition of influence?

• to have an effect on someone or something

• to symbolize something

• to describe something

• to characterize something

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

What is the definition of characterize?

• Describe someone or something

• represent or stand for something else

• to eat pizza

• to have an effect on someone

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does the Statue of Liberty do?

• Symbolizes new beginnings

• Characterizes new beginnings

• Evaluates new beginnings

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

Select the definition of symbolize.

• To describe someone or something.

• To carefully judge someone or something

• To represent or stand for something

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

Briefly retelling the main ideas of a story in your own words is?

• Primary source

• Secondary source

• Relevant

• Summarizing

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.5.9

Information that is able to be trusted and accurate is?

• Relevant

• Glossary

• Reliable

• Source

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Copying words and ideas from a source and presenting them as your own is?

• Quoting

• Summarizing

• Paraphrasing

• Plagiarism

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A questions that asks for supporting details or something that supports an idea is asking for...

• an inference

• a selection

• evidence

• a definition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.5.2

Nonfiction is...

• True

• Not true

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

The time and place of a story is what

• Resolution

• Setting

• Climax

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9