Academic Vocabulary STAAR

To show how things are alike or similar

• contrast
• compare
• support
• describe

To separate into the main parts and look carefully at each part

• infer
• explain
• analyze
• cause

To show how things are different

• contrast
• persuade
• compare
• evidence

To make something clear by giving reasons

• infer

• persuade

• cause

• explain

To convince someone of your idea(s) on something through logic or reasoning

• infer
• analyze
• persuade
• evidence

To use your background knowledge and clues in the text or picture to figure out what is happening

• summarize
• elaborate
• infer
• describe

To restate the important ideas or events from a text in a shorter way

• summarize
• evidence
• text
• strategy

To back up your answer with details from your own experience or details from the text (evidence)

• compare
• analyze
• persuade
• support

Support from the text to back up your ideas, inferences or conclusions; proof

• strategy
• text
• summarize
• evidence

Annotating is a type of 

• notetaking
• a multiple choice test
• bad habit for college
• none of these