STAAR Vocabulary List #1

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SUMMARY

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Summarizing text is a skill used to reduce information to its main ideas and fundamental points.

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INFERENCE

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Using metacognitive skills to develop and deepen comprehension of complex texts.

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AUTHOR'S PURPOSE

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Analyzing the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within texts.

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ANECDOTE

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A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

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ILLUSTRATE

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Visual images that help readers of fiction and nonfiction better understand the words in a text.

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INDICATE

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Point out or show.

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CONVEY

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Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.

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ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERN

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Analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across text.

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

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Metaphor, personification, simile.

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PARAPHRASE

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Show understanding and language use when correctly rephrased information is read or heard.