Staar Vocabulary

Main Idea

• What a piece of writing is mainly about.

• The message, lesson, or central idea of a work.

• The problem.

• When and where a story takes place.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

Theme

• Finding a solution to a problem.

• The turning point of a story

• The message of a story.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Conflict

• What a piece of writing is mainly about.

• Giving human qualities to a non-human thing.

• The problem in a story.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Summary

• BME: main events in a story.

• The problem in a story.

• 1st person POV - uses pronouns like "I"

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

Resolution

• Finding a solution to a problem.

• When and where a story takes place.

• The problem in a story.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Setting

• At school.

• Where and when a story takes place.

• The setting is not specified.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Point of view

• 1st person POV

• The perspective from which a story is told.

• The message of a story.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Personification

• The beginning, middle, and end of a story.

• Giving human qualities to non human things.

• A sound word.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Alliteration

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

• Brief statement of the main events of a story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

1st person point of view

• Told from the pov of one the characters using pronouns like "I"

• chronological order

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5