3rd grade Staar Reading Vocabulary

a belief based on thoughts or feelings

-a cause for acting, thinking, or feeling a certain way

the person telling the story or sharing an account

to determine what will occur based on current info

a story or description of events that may or may not be true

- a word that has the SAME or similar meaning as another word

- a brief statement of the main idea and key details of a text

to restate using different words

an organizational pattern of text that places events in time order

to have the same or similar ending sounds

the author of a poem

-a group of lines that forms a verse of a song/poem

letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word that changes its meaning

-basic part of a word that remains when all affixes have been removed ex: unhappiness

arrangement of rhyming lines in poetry. aabb, abab

- a question that must be solved.

a word that is the name of a sound ex. boom

-the voice of the person expressing the idea and feeling of a poem or story

the act of telling about an event or idea on current info given

- a group of letters added to the beginning of a word that changes its meaning

- a word part that contains a single vowel sound with or without a consonant sound

the sequence of actions or events in a literary selection

-repeating patterns of sound in poems or songs

-a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word that changes its meaning

usage of words in a sentence ; noun, verb, pronoun, adjective

- when and where a story takes place

written in verse that often rhymes

group of sentences that supports a main idea

an info. text that is written to explain the steps to complete a task/activity

-words used in literary writing that show smell, taste, touch, hearing, & sight

- a figure of speech in which two things are compared using like or as

-to write or tell the main idea and key details of a text

the position or perspective from which an author tells the story

poetry that tells a story using characters and plot events