STAAR Reading Review Collection

The central idea is...

• what the text is mostly about

• a detail from the text.

• the first sentence of a paragraph.

• a quote you provide from the text.

Most people think that gorillas are mean, but actually they are shy. It seems that such a huge animal with very large teeth would be aggressive. Hollywood movies help convey this image of the scary, ferocious gorilla. In fact, gorillas only attack if they are provoked. 
This author belives that:

• Gorillas are misunderstood as vicious animals.
• Gorillas are mean animals
• Gorillas don't like other animals.

Do you ever wonder how you taste things? You owe your sense of taste to your taste buds. We have 9,000 taste buds just on the tongue alone. There are also taste buds on the roof of your mouth. You even have taste buds on the back of your throat.

What does the author want you to learn about the passage?

• Why we can taste only sweet things.

• that we taste through our nose

• Taste buds are found in different places.

What words in lines 8-10 tells you it is a similie?

• knock over the cans

• His voice isn't strange out on the range

• sweep through the yard like a broom

• but he whistles and moans in a room

The boys took ​ (a)   car to the shop over ​ ​ (b)   in town.

• their
• there
• they're

Little Lady Icicle is waking in the north-land, 
And shaking in the north-land her pillow to and fro; 
And the hurricane a-skirling 
Sends the feathers all a-whirling 
Where little Lady Icicle is waking in the snow. 

• This stanza shows IMAGERY.
• This stanza shows SIMILE.

The text of the play: ​ (a)  

The words said by the characters: ​ (b)  

The time and place in the play:​ (c)  

A chapter in a play that contains more than one scene:​ (d)  

The person who tells what happens during the play: ​ (e)  

• Script
• Dialogue
• Setting
• Act
• Narrator
• Cast of Characters
• Scene
• Stage Directions
• Theme
• Plot

It was the sea eagle that called Emily down to the beach. It hovered above the waves, it's broad wings dusty where the land had left its mark, its small eyes that could follow the horizon bright and keen. She hadn't meant to come down onto the beach. She'd meant to sit at the top of the ramp till the other kids had left the street, till she could walk home from school in peace without strangers staring at her, but somehow the bird seemed to urge her to come down.

What time of day do you think it is and why?

• afternoon because she is coming home from school

• evening because there was no one on the street

• lunch time because she wanted to feed the birds

• morning because birds are out at that time

An INFORMATIONAL text

• is fiction

• is nonfiction

Synonyms are words that -

• have the same meaning 
• have opposite meaning 
• sound the same with different meaning 
• sound the same with different spelling