STAAR 3rd Grade Reading Review
What does fiction mean?
What does fiction mean?
Fake, not real
What is a theme?
What is a theme?
Lesson or message author wants reader to remember
What is a setting?
What is a setting?
Where and when the story takes place
What is a summary?
What is a summary?
tells about a whole passage in a few sentences (beginning, middle, end)
What is a sequence of events?
What is a sequence of events?
putting events in the order they happened (first, second, next, last)
What is nonfiction?
What is nonfiction?
Real, True Story
What is a biography?
What is a biography?
a true story that someone writes about someone else
What is an autobiography?
What is an autobiography?
a true story that someone writes about themelves
What is main idea?
What is main idea?
what a text is mostly about
What are some text features?
What are some text features?
pictures, table of contents, graphs, charts, diagrams, captions, etc.
What is a stanza?
What is a stanza?
group of lines that give a poem its form
What is a rhyme?
What is a rhyme?
words that have the same ending sound (bat, hat)
What is a simile?
What is a simile?
a comparison using like or as
Who is the speaker?
Who is the speaker?
the narrator of the poem
What is personification?
What is personification?
animals/objects talk or act like people
What is 1st person?
What is 1st person?
someone in the story is telling the story (I, my, we, us)
What is 3rd person?
What is 3rd person?
someone else is telling the story (they, him, her, she, you)
What is the author's purpose?
What is the author's purpose?
the reason that the author wrote the passage (persuade, inform, entertain)
What is a synonym? Antonym?
What is a synonym? Antonym?
synonym-same, antonym-opposite
What is a base word? Prefix and Suffix?
What is a base word? Prefix and Suffix?
b-word that a prefix or suffix is added to/p-word part added to beginning/s-word part added to end
What is a narrator?
What is a narrator?
person telling the story
What is repetition?
What is repetition?
repeating lines or phrases in a poem
What is an illustration?
What is an illustration?
a picture
What is an example of alliteration?
What is an example of alliteration?
more than one word begins with same sound (big babies blowing bubbles)
What are some examples of types of poems?
What are some examples of types of poems?
free verse-no rhyme, lyrical-feeling, narrative-story
What are some things you can do to help yourself pass the STAAR test?
What are some things you can do to help yourself pass the STAAR test?
Use your strategies, prove your answers, take your time, try your hardest
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