Staar Reading Vocabulary

Setting is..

• where and when the story takes place

• importance

• emotional meaning of a word

• a writers distinctive

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

Put the following elements of plot in order

• Climax

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

Match the following text structures

• The text describes an event (cause) and the effects that follow

• Description

• the text outlines events in order or a list of steps in a procedure

• Compare and Contrast

• Text provides details or characteristics

• Chronological Order

• The text gives information about a problem and explains one or more solutions.

• Cause and Effect

• The text describers the similarities and differences between people, places, events, things, etc.

• Problem and Solutioin

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Figurative Language

• language that means more than what it says on the surface; not actual or literal meaning.

• compare two things using like or as

• compare two things without using like or as

• the events that make up a story (climax, resolution, exposition)

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

What do we call a person who wrote a drama/play?

• poet

• author

• playwright

• the narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.10

A major division of a play

• scene

• setting

• dialouge

• act

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.10

What is a scene

• examples from the text that supports your claim. in your own words

• a minor plot that relates in some way to the main story

• words that are similar (pretty and beautiful)

• a subdivision of an act in a play

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.7

literary device

• tool used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the text (e.g., dialogue alliteration)

• words and phrases that create imagery by using the 5 senses (sight, smell, sound, taste, touch)

• to attract attention to or emphasize something important

• backup with details

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

Synthesize

• a change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause

• the passage, story, or text

• comment; make explanatory notes

• to combine ideas to create new meaning in a text or across texts

Tags

CCSS.RF.4.4A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RF.5.4C

What is a prefix?

• the passage, story, or text

• the outcome of an experiment or problem

• the emotion with which the words are said; the author's attitude toward a specific character, place, or development

• a word part that can be added at the beginning of a word to make a new word (Examples; pre-, post-, co-, inter-)

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.3.3