STAAR Reading Review (7th grade)

lesson or moral of a story

• genre

• theme

• main idea

• plot

people the writer intends to read the text

• characters

• genre

• audience

• dialogue

a type of literature

• genre

• staging

• claim

• theme

reason why the author wrote the text

• theme

• paraphrase

• refute

• author purpose

main point the author is conveying to the reader

• text structure

• point of view

• author message

• author purpose

what the text is mainly about

• theme

• main idea

• plot

• setting

time and place of a story

• main idea

• stereotype

• genre

• setting

traits and personalities

• character qualities

• tone

• point of view

• suspense

way an author sounds as they write

• motivation

• voice

• mood

• point of view

feeling, emotion, or atmosphere

• purpose

• voice

• suspense

• mood