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STAAR Review: 6th Grade Reading
STAAR Review: 6th Grade Reading
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The reason the author writes a certain type of text is known as---
Author's purpose
Summary
Point of view
The main message
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Most important thing for you to do this weekend & Monday night to prepare for your STAAR test?
Read an hour each day, practice strategies, and study.
Study.
Play outside, get a good night's rest, eat a good breakfast.
Read through my strategies and read for two hours every day
3
Sentences that give you facts, descriptions & examples to help you understand the main idea is-
Supporting facts
Subtitles
Main Purpose
Supporting details
4
What are the events that make up a fictional story called?
Plot
Setting
Climax
Characters
5
What is the EARLIEST you should be finishing your test?
5 hours
4 hours
3 hours
2 hours
6
Define:
Emphasize
to close read
to support
to predict
to bring attention to or show
7
Fiction that involves an event in history. This genre is called-
Historical fiction
Myth
Science fiction
Realistic fiction
8
The message in a text that helps you understand more about life or human behavior is called ---
Summary
Main Idea
Theme
Purpose
9
Name the genre:
a story that may happen in real life with fictional characters or settings
Traditional literature
Fiction
Historical fiction
Realistic fiction
10
A story in which events create a feeling of terror in both the characters and the reader.
Fiction
Adventure
Horror
Suspenseful
11
Language that helps a reader to visualize the events from a text in a better way is called-
Figurative Language
Imagery
The narrator
Point of view
12
Words and phrases that create _____ by using the 5 senses.
Imagery
Figurative language
Fiction
Poetry
13
The part of a story where the main conflict changes or SHIFTS.
Resolution
Rising Action
Climax
Exposition
14
In a persuasive text, the argument is the same thing as the...
theme
main idea
evidence
supporting details
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A type of writing used to persuade the reader of the author's point-of-view is called -
Persuasive
Declarative
Informational
Explanatory
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When an author uses clues to help you figure out what events will happen later in the story is-
Foreshadowing
Prediction
Psychic Flash
Flashback
17
This type of writing describe people & places that are 'real' and events that really happened.
Fiction
Non-fiction
Personal narrative
Poetry
18
What is the first thing you should do as soon as you get your STAAR test?
Write your goal and strategies on the front cover
Begin reading passage 1
Check the clock to see how much time you have
Read through all the questions first
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The story of a person's life written by someone else using 3rd person point of view is called -
Summary
Autobiography
Article
Biography
20
Example:
peter piper picked a pair of pickled peppers---
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Similie
21
Writing which follows the plot structure and is based on the imagination rather than fact.
Poetry
Non-fition
Drama
Fiction
22
What strategy should you use for Poetry?
POWER
TPCASTT
TCSRTT
23
Clues in the text that help the reader determine the meaning of unknown words is known as-
Close reading
An inference
Context clues
Prediction
24
Define:
Dialogue
a character inner monologue
a conversation between two characters in a story
the story the narrator is telling
a third person speaking to the reader
25
The way that a story is organized is called-
Beginning, middle and end
Story form
Organizational pattern
Text structure
26
Combining inferences you have made about the characters, setting, or plot to make a statement.
Summary
Schema
Predictions
Drawing conlusions
27
This organizational pattern shows all the ways that 2 or more things are similar and different.
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Problem and solution
Sequential order
28
Complete the sentence:
_______ is the ending or final outcome of a story.
The End
Resolution
Verdict
Happily Ever After....
29
To say that something is bigger or greater than it really is; "to stretch the truth" is called-
Lying
Alliteration
Exaggeration
Storytelling
30
When a reader uses clues from the text + what they already know to draw a conclusion is called-
Prediction
Summary
Conclusion
Inference
31
Define:
Onomatopoeia
the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words
an exaggeration
the use of words that imitate sounds
uses the words "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things
32
What a piece of writing or paragraph is mainly about is called the ______________.
Main Idea
Purpose
Summary
Story
33
Complete the sentence:
______ is also known as the problem in the story.
disagreement
Issue
Conflict
Resolution
34
Define:
Genre
a mode of reading
a summary of passages
a type of literature
a type of book
35
Instructions for actors and stage crew to follow are called -
Props
Stage directions
The narrator
Dialogue
36
Small text found near a picture that provides important information about that picture is---
subtitles
additional information about the passage
a summary
a caption
37
This pattern puts events in their correct order based upon the TIME in which they happened.
Compare and contrast
Problem and solution
Chronological order
Cause and effect
38
A story that is imagined and has characters and events that could not exist in the real world.
Science Fiction
Realistic Fiction
Fantasy
Non-fiction
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The perspective from which a story is told is called ----
Stalking
1st person
3rd person
Point of View
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Define:
Summary
a short passage that describes the climax of the story.
a short paragraph that tells the main events from the story.
a long passage that describes the main idea of the story.
a passage that tells you the supporting details of the story
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The word
convey
means.....
To make important.
To discuss.
To tell.
To present.
42
Authors use this structure when giving directions or explaining things. It is called-
Text structure
Problem and solution
Description
Sequential Order
43
Which of the following terms gives human qualities to non-human things?
Personification
Metaphor
Assonance
Hyperbole
44
A story that presents a series of exciting events; often involves journeys or dangerous events.
Science fiction
Adventure
Mystery
Fairytale
45
Name the genre:
a story with elements that are impossible; talking animals or magical powers
Mystery
Folktale
Fantasy
Legend
46
Complete the sentence:
______ is when & where the story takes place.
Setting
Problem
Resolution
Characters
47
What is a
metaphor
?
comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
a repetition of sounds at the beginning of words
a comparison of two unlike things
an extreme exaggeration
48
The words & details that appeal to a readers 5 senses is known as-
Imagery
Figurative language
Poetry
Sensory language
49
Which term compares two things by using the words "like" or "as"?
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor
50
A story written to be performed by actors; a play is called a-
Fiction
Drama
Biography
Personal narrative
