STAAR Reading 2/28

check everything that applies to poetry

• sensory language

• informational

• stanza

• figurative language

Which sentence best highlights that the author is impressed with the creation of the Great Pyramid?

• Many people have wondered how the ancient Egyptians could have built such a massive structure.

• Fortunately one man, the archaeologist Zahi Hawass, made it his life's goal to restore the Great Pyramid and the smaller pyramids that surround it.

• In fact, the structure has lost about 30 feet of its original height.

• Historians have learned that the pyramid's builders were farmers.

giving human qualitites to non-human objects

• persuade

• alliteration

• perspective

• personification

conflict

• language that appeals to the senses

• an opinion

• problem in a story

• where the story takes place

inform

• the author wants to tell you how to do something or how something works

• the author wants to amuse you or for your to enjoy the writing

• the author wants to give information

• the story comes to a reasonable ending

means the opposite

• synonym

• antonym

• footnote

how the story ends

• setting

• theme

• plot

• resolution

Tags

Story Elements

foreshadowing

• the lines spoken between characters, when someone is talking

• overreact, dramatic

• when the writer gives a hint of what will happen later in the story

the passage, story, poem or play

• suggest

• selection

• main idea

• infer

The author included paragraph 1 in the selection most likely to-

• provide background information about the home of the red crabs

• provide reasons for visiting Christmas Island during the red crab migration

• explain why it is important for the red crabs to reach the ocean

• explain why Christmas Island is a perfect place for red crabs to live