RLA STAAR Vocabulary

What does it mean to annotate? (multi-select)

• Collect information

• Interact with the text

• Take notes

• A group of individuals talking

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.8

An arguable statement made by an author of an argument. An idea that the speaker wants the audience to agree with.

• text evidence

• claim

• author's message

• annotation

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.SL.5.3

CCSS.W.5.1A

What the author wants the reader to learn or take away from reading a text. Often referred to as the moral or lesson.

• claim

• edit

• author's message

• audience

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

To restate or re-word something that is spoken or written by another person.

• text evidence

• paraphrase

• direct quote

• edit

Tags

CCSS.W.5.8

The main events of a story, play, or other literary work. These events may or may not be told in the order that they occur.

• Plot

• Claim

• Author's Message

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

Any information collected from an original source that is used to support a response/thesis or prove an argument.

• audience

• text evidence

• annotate

• claim

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.W.5.1B

CCSS.W.5.2B

CCSS.W.5.9A

To interact with a text by adding comments or notes to improve one’s understanding while reading.

• claim

• edit

• annotate

• revise

Tags

CCSS.W.5.8

CCSS.W.5.9A

The act of improving a piece of writing by making corrections to spelling, capitalization, verb tense, punctuation, and other conventions. This makes the grammar correct.

• revise

• edit

Tags

CCSS.L.5.2E

CCSS.W.5.5

A person or group of individuals that an author writes for. This person or group often determines the details and words an author chooses to include.

• audience

• author

• reader

• writer

Tags

CCSS.W.5.4

The act of improving a piece of writing by substituting, taking out, adding, or removing paragraphs, sentences, phrases, or words. This makes the ideas clear and developed.

• revise

• edit

Tags

CCSS.W.5.4

CCSS.W.5.5