4th Grade Reading Staar Review

What is a Biography?

• A story of someone's life written by themselves

• A story of someone's life written by someone else.

• A made up story.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

the story of a person's life written by that person

• autobiography

• contribute

• influence

• biography

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

What does realistic mean?

• True to life
• Kind of real
• Something that's like-real, but isn't
• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4A

The best definition of theme is...

• The lesson the author is teaching. 
• The message the author is sending.
• A word that summarizes the story.
• The character's main problem.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

What is the main difference between THEME and MAIN IDEA. 

• Theme is a universal lesson and main idea is what a story is about.
• Theme is what a story is about and main idea is the universal lesson it teaches.
  

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

What makes a good summary? (choose all that apply)

• IMPORTANT information from the beginning, middle and end of the text.

• States the reader's opinion

• Includes only most important details.

• Copies sentences word for word from the text.

This is the heart of the story, it is what the author wants you to learn from reading.

• topic

• details

• main idea

• main message

What is "sensory language"?

• language that connects to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) to create an image or description.
• language that has been censored (censorship)
• language that is not very descriptive
• language that is unfamiliar to the reader

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the main idea?

• Its the authors point of view
• Is what the passage is mostly about
• It is the sequence of the story.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

What is the definition of Author's Purpose?

• Why a reading passage was written
• Descriptive details about a person, place, or thing.
• Figuring out something that is not directly stated in a reading passage
• figuring out the meaning of unknown words from other words

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6