STAAR ELA Elementary

The process of taking context clues & coming to a logical conclusion based on the evidence presented.

• stage directions

• context clues

• inference

• convey

How an author chooses to organize information or plot structure in a selection.

• context clues

• inference

• stage directions

• organizational pattern

The word STAAR uses to refer to any passage, poem, play, or article.

• selection

• convey

• stanza

• dialogue

To make VERY obvious to the reader

• convey

• emphasize

• stanza

• stage directions

Actively spoken words in a selection; denoted by the use of "quotation marks"

• line

• text clues

• dialogue

• tone

The subject or message being presented within a selection; themes are universal, not just bound to one story

• tone

• theme

• inference

• stanza

Any tool, other than the text itself, to help the reader understand the themes of a selection better. Ex. Pictures, quotes, text boxes, modified text: italics, bold, all caps...

• context clues

• graphic elements

• stage directions

  convey

• inference

What is an author's claim?

• a main idea

• a description

• a comparison

• a guess

The process of understanding the meaning of a word by looking at the words around it.

• A) context clues

• B) inference

• C) stage directions

• D) theme

What is the term for the main message or lesson conveyed in a story?

• A) tone

• B) theme

• C) dialogue

• D) stanza