Quizlet: 4th Grade STAAR Vocabulary 52 questions

Definition: what a piece of writing is mostly about.

• theme

• plot

• main idea

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

Definition: letters added to the beginning of the word to make a new word.

• suffix

• simile

• message

• prefix

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

Definition: how the author sees something (his perspective) and affects the way he writes about it.

• theme

• point of view

• setting

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Definition: words that mean the opposite.

• antonyms

• synonyms

• context clues

• suffix

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Definition: how the problem is solved in a story.

• setting

• plot

• climax

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Definition: a passage that tells a made-up story.

• a) narrator

• b) fiction

• c) plot

• d) poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Definition: The author provides information about the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, ideas, objects, etc.

• a) Text Structure: Compare and Contrast

• b) resolution

• c) Text Structure: Cause and Effect

• d) important/supporting details

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

Definition: The text features a detailed description of something to give the reader a mental picture.

• text structure: descriptive

• first-person point of view

• informational (nonfiction)

• third-person point of view

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Definition: the author presents a problem and explains one or more solutions to the problem

• text structure- descriptive

• Text Structure: Problem and Solution

• Text Structure: Cause and Effect

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

Definition: when someone NOT in the story tells the story, like an invisible observer (he, she, they, etc.)

• motivation

• theme

• third-person point of view

• third-person omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9