3rd Grade STAAR Vocabulary

Order of the story

• rhyme

• plot

• summary

• main idea

A poem that does not rhyme or tell a story

• narrative poem

• lyrical poem

• free verse poem

• Haiku Poem

To form a mental image of; imagine

• imagery

• visualize

• line

• cause

the smaller title that goes before a new section of the text

• caption

• title

• subtitle

• index

What happens as a result of the cause

• what

• why

• cause

• effect

The time and place of a story

• setting

• clock

• plot

• genre

A word that means the opposite of another word

• synonym

• rhyme

• definition

• antonym

What a piece of writing is mainly about

• genre

• summary

• main idea

• text feature

A person in a story

• author

• writer

• character

• animal

repetition of sounds at the end of words

• rhyme

• synonym

• antonym

• poem