STAAR Reading Vocabulary

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setting

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where and when the story takes place

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main idea

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what a piece of writing is mainly about

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summary

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to shorten (3-5 sentences) and tell the beginning, middle, and end of a passage

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persuasive

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used to convince the reader of the writer's point of view

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autobiography

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the story of a person's life written by that person in first person point of view

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biography

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the story of a person's life written by someone else in third person point of view

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point of view

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the perspective from which a story is told

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first person point of view

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told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" , "me", "my"

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third person point of view

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told by a narrator from outside the story

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inference/infer

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to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented