STAR 5th Grade Reading Vocabulary

Name the genre: a story that may happen in real life with fictional characters or settings

This pattern puts events in their correct order based upon the TIME in which they happened.

Small text found near a picture that provides important information about that picture is---

This type of writing describe people & places that are 'real' and events that really happened.

The repeating of consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called---

Authors use this structure when giving directions or explaining things; given in order

A type of writing used to persuade the reader of the author's point-of-view is called -

A story that is imagined and has characters and events that could not exist in the real world.

What is a metaphor?

Complete the sentence: ______ is also known as the problem in the story.

A type of writing based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.

A fictional story that uses supernatural beings to teach a moral or explain natural phenomena -

Define: Summary

The reason the author writes a certain type of text is known as---

Define: Genre

This type of text informs or explains an idea for a reader. It is called-

The word convey means.....

Name the genre: a story with elements that are impossible; talking animals or magical powers

Define: Onomatopoeia

The way that a story/text is organized is called-

Complete the sentence: _______ is the ending or final outcome of a story.

Which term compares two things by using the words "like" or "as"?

The message in a text that helps you understand more about life or human behavior is called ---

The story of a person's life written by someone else using 3rd person point of view is called -

Language that helps a reader to visualize the events from a text in a better way is called-

The perspective from which a story is told is called ----

A story written to be performed by actors; a play is called a-

Instructions for actors and stage crew to follow are called -

Words and phrases that create _____ by using the 5 senses.

Define: Dialogue

When an author uses clues to help you figure out what events will happen later in the story is-

When a reader uses clues from the text + what they already know to draw a conclusion is called-

Which of the following terms gives human qualities to non-human things?

To say that something is bigger or greater than it really is; "to stretch the truth" is called-

Complete the sentence: ______ is when & where the story takes place.

Fiction that involves an event in history. This genre is called-

What a piece of writing or paragraph is mainly about is called the ______________.

Clues in the text that help the reader determine the meaning of unknown words is known as-

Sentences that give you facts, descriptions & examples to help you understand the main idea is-

This organizational pattern shows all the ways that 2 or more things are similar and different.

The events that make up a fictional story