STAAR Vocabulary

To figure out what it means by using clues in the text and my own knowledge

• Prior knowledge

• Setting

• trait

• Inference

To put the important events in order

• Cause

• Effect

• Sequence

• Plot

To show how people, places or things are alike

• Context clue

• Compare

• Contrast

• solution

The reason why the author wrote the story, book or passage

• Author's purpose

• Cause

• Problem

• Inference

A person, animal or imaginary creature that takes part in the action of the story

• Prediction

• Solution

• Plot

• Character

Why something happened

• Problem

• Cause

• Effect

• Setting

What happens as the result of the cause

• Sequence

• Effect

• Context Clue

• Prior knowledge

To say what will happen in the future using clues to support my guess

• Trait

• Contrast

• Prediction

• Plot

Language used by authors to help the reader create a picture in the mind (similies, metaphors and idioms are types)

• Prior knowledge

• Sequence

• Effect

• Figurative language

Where and when a story takes place

• Setting

• Context clue

• Plot

• Problem