STAAR Vocab

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Audience:

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Intended target group for a message, regardless of medium.

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Evidence:

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Specific details or facts that support an inference or idea.

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KEY IDEA: important ideas that support the central message, theme, tone, etc.

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important ideas that support the central message, theme, tone, etc.

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GENRE?

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the type or class of a work, categorized by form, technique, or content.

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Author's Craft?

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Intentional use of organizational patterns, text features, sentence structures, devices, and language for effective writing.

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Annotating

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Adding notes or comments to a text to mark significant features and/or personal commentary.

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Topic: a specific subject, idea, or issue that is the focus of a discussion, essay, article, or other work

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a specific subject, idea, or issue that is the focus of a discussion, essay, article, or other work

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Purpose: the intended goal of a piece of writing; the reason a person writes

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the intended goal of a piece of writing; the reason a person writes

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SYNTHESIZE:

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Thinking while reading and forming new ideas.

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Adage:

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A well-known saying expressing a common truth.