Third Grade STAAR Reading

narrator tells the story, not a character. (uses he, she, and they)

• First-person

• Third-person

• Third-person limited

• Third-person omniscient 

when the narrator knows the thoughts/feelings of the main character

• First-person

• Third-person

• Third-person limited

• Third-person omniscient 

when the narrator knows the thoughts/feelings of many characters

• First-person

• Third-person

• Third-person limited

• Third-person omniscient 

form of writing, often in rhyme, that tells a story or describes something

• Poetry

• Drama

• Myth

• Fiction 

a group of lines in a poem (kind of like very small paragraphs)

• Haiku

• Rhyme 

• Stanzas 

• Rhythm 

tells the story of a person’s life and written by someone else

• Autobiography

• Biography 

• Informational 

• Nonfiction 

The tree invited us to come play is an example of _____________

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Huperbole

• Personification

The ball streaked across the field like a meteor. This is an example of a _____________

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

When a reader can form a picture in their mind.  This is an example of___________________.

• Imagery

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Repetition

When the poem has words that look the same and sound the same.  It has________.

• Repetition

• Rhythm

• Rhyme