STAAR Reading Practice Exam/54 q’s and
A’s
main idea - - what a piece of writing is mainly about
- theme - - The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into
life or overall message of the story
- summary - - to shorten (3-5 sentences) and tell the beginning, middle, and
end of a passage
- chronological order - - in the time order in which events happened
- persuasive - - used to convice the reader of the writer's point of view
- procedural - - writing that tells how to do something
- myth - - a fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or the causes of
natural phenomena
- origin - - a beginning or coming into being
- autobiography - - the story of a person's life written by that person in first
person point of view
- point of view - - the perspective from which a story is told
- first person point of view - - Told from the viewpoint of one of the
characters using the pronouns "I" and We"
- third person limited point of view - - the narrator focuses on the thoughts
and feelings of only one character
- third person omniscent point of view - - told by an all-knowing narrator
from outside the story who reveals what every character thinks and feels
- inference/infer - - to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information
presented
- justify - - to demonstrate that something is right; to defend with reasons
- thesaurus - - A listing of words with synonyms and antonyms
A’s
main idea - - what a piece of writing is mainly about
- theme - - The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into
life or overall message of the story
- summary - - to shorten (3-5 sentences) and tell the beginning, middle, and
end of a passage
- chronological order - - in the time order in which events happened
- persuasive - - used to convice the reader of the writer's point of view
- procedural - - writing that tells how to do something
- myth - - a fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or the causes of
natural phenomena
- origin - - a beginning or coming into being
- autobiography - - the story of a person's life written by that person in first
person point of view
- point of view - - the perspective from which a story is told
- first person point of view - - Told from the viewpoint of one of the
characters using the pronouns "I" and We"
- third person limited point of view - - the narrator focuses on the thoughts
and feelings of only one character
- third person omniscent point of view - - told by an all-knowing narrator
from outside the story who reveals what every character thinks and feels
- inference/infer - - to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information
presented
- justify - - to demonstrate that something is right; to defend with reasons
- thesaurus - - A listing of words with synonyms and antonyms
