STAAR Countdown 2- 6 weeks

What is the meaning of this word organizational pattern based on how it is used in the question?

The author uses a compare-and-contrast organizational pattern in the selection to help the reader understand-

• the authors way of providing information on a topic by the way they arrange a paragraph : cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequential order, problem and solution)

• how to build a store

• an authors way of

What is the meaning of this word conclude based on how it is used in the question?

Based on details in the story, what can the reader conclude about the narrator?

• infer

• problem and solution

• conclusion

What is the meaning of this word narrator based on how it is used in the question?

Based on details in the story, what can the reader conclude about the narrator?

• infer

• problem and solution

• conclusion

• I know that the narrator is a question on the point of view . It is 1st person because they are using "I, me, mine"

What is the meaning of this word most likely based on how it is used in the question ?

What does the narrator most likely think about the Pierre De La Mors experience?

• infer

• problem and solution

• conclusion

• show

What is the meaning of this word narrator based on how it is used in the sentence?

Which sentence from the story best describes the narrator’s main conflict?

• The person who is telling the story

• The bully

• The person who wrote the story

• show

What is the meaning of this word conflict based on how it is used in the question?

Which sentence from the story best describes the narrator’s main conflict?

• infer

• problem

• conclusion

• show

What is the meaning of this word phrase based on how it is used in the question?

In paragraph 21, why does the author use the phrase “ cat got your tongue” ?

• an incomplete figurative language sentence ( missing a noun or verb) that expresses feelings through language

• a complete sentence that expression feelings through language

• a run on sentence

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What is the meaning of this words main message based on how it is used in the question?

What is the main message of the story?

• I know that theme is a message or lesson about life that is revealed through the main characters problem.

• problem

• conclusion

• show

What is the meaning of this words central idea based on how it is used in the question?

What is the central idea of paragraph 12?

• I know that theme is a message or lesson about life that is revealed through the main characters problem.

• main idea/topic

• the way an author organizes the paragraphs

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What is the meaning of this words similar idea based on how it is used in the question?

Which sentence from “ Bowhead Whales” expresses a similar idea?

• I know that theme is a message or lesson about life that is revealed through the main characters problem.

• main idea/topic

• the way an author organizes the paragraphs

• I know that similiar means same and an idea is thought so, this question wants me to find a matching thought.