Reading STAAR Academic Vocabulary 1

What are stage directions?

• They tell the characters what to do.

• Lesson Learned

• Author's Purpose

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.5

What is central idea?

• Lesson Learned

• Details that explain the main idea of the story.

• Authors Craft

• PIE

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is message?

• Author's Craft

• PIE

• Theme

• The lesson learned from the story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

What is a key idea?

• The authors reason for writing the story.

• A detail

• A detail in the story that supports the central idea.

• Lesson Learned

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

What is an anecdote?

• a short, funny, or interesting story related to a character or events

• the author’s writing style that makes his or her writing unique

• vocabulary, precise nouns, sensory words, and vivid verbs that make the text more interesting

• exaggerations that make things sound bigger, better, or more than what they truly are

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is an illustration?

• Subheading

• Paragraph

• Title

• picture

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

What does it mean for a problem to be resolved?

• The problem is introduced.

• The problem is not fixed.

• The problem has been fixed.

• The problem cannot be found.

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

What is a paired passage?

• Is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary.

• Paired passages are simply two text passages that feature similarities, differences, and connections.

• Is any true story that refers to literature based in fact.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.9

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What does SIMILARITY mean in a paired passage?

• Different

• How the stories the same or similar.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.9

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

What does DIFFER mean in a paired passage?

• How the stories are different.

• How the stories are the same.

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.3.9

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7