STAAR Vocabulary

In the story, the author emphasizes the importance of -

What does the word emphasize mean?

• Make important or stand out

• To suggest

• To compare

• A statement that cannot be proven

Paragraph 17 is important to the plot because -

What does plot mean?

• Main problem in the story

• Lesson learned in the story

• Events that make up a story

• The most intense part of the story, or the turning point in the story.

Which sentence best foreshadows what happens at the end of the story?

What does foreshadow mean?

• The message of the story

• Clues that help the reader to figure out what will happen later in the story.

• When a reader uses text clues plus their background knowledge to draw a conclusion.

• The author's attitude toward the text.

What can the reader conclude abut the narrator from this sentence?

What does conclude mean?

• To suggest, hint, infer

• To make a judgement or an opinion by reasoning

• Using clues to uncover the meaning of an unknown word

• Random guess

The author presents events in chronological order to -

What is chronological order?

• Comparing and Contrasting

• Describing

• The order in which events occur, from first to last

• The steps in a process or event

Which sentence from the selection conveys the idea that people were beginning to follow Big Bird's story?

What does convey mean?

• To form a mental picture

• To suggest or infer

• To collect clues to make an inference.

• To show, make known, express

Based on the information in the article, what can the reader infer about the contest?

What does infer mean?

• The author's attitude toward the story

• When a reader uses text evidence plus what they already know to draw a conclusion

• The main problem of the story

• A factual statement found in the text

The author organizes paragraph 9 in a compare and contrast pattern to illustrate -

What does illustrate mean?

• Paint

• To hide

• Instructions

• To show or explain

How does Catalina's observation of the telescope advance the plot of the story?

What does advance mean?

• To move forward

• To show

• To stop

• To guess

The story's third person point of view helps the reader -

What is third person point of view?

• Told from the point of view of one of the characters in the story - uses pronouns like I, me, my, we, us

• When the reader is part of the story - uses pronouns like you and your

• The narrator exists outside the story - uses pronouns like he, she, they, them

• It's not important.