6Th Grade Staar Reading Academic Vocabulary

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1st Person Point of View

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The narrator is a character in the story. The story is written using "I" and "me".

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3rd Person Point of View

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The narrator is not a character in the story. The story is written using "he", "she", and "they".

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alliteration

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds.

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Antonym

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Words with opposite meanings

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Author's Purpose

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The reason the author has for writing. (inform, persuade, entertain)

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Caption

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Brief explanation or description of an illustration

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cause/effect

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A text structure that presents the reason something happens and the result of it happening

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Chronological

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Arranged in order of time

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Climax

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The turning point in the story...this is when the characters face the conlfict, undergo some type of change as a result of this. The highest point of interest/tension in the story

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Denouement

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The final resolution of the main complication within a literary or dramatic work

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Conflict

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The main problem the character(s) face(s)

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Details

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Ideas that support the main idea

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Dictionary

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Book filled with definitions for words

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Prediction

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Guessing about what might happen in the future

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Prefix

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One or more letters added to the beginning of a root word

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Problem/solution

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A text structure that presents a problem and offers solutions to solve the problem

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Dialect

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Using words that are associated with a particular area or region

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Rising action

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All events leading to the climax

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Root

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Main part of a word

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Stanzas

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The paragraphs of poetry

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Style

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The way a writer uses language

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Suffix

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One or more letters added to the end of a root word

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Summary

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Highlights the most important parts of a story/text

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Synonym

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Words that have the same meaning

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Text features

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Things such as headings,bulleted lists ,and graphics that help a reader find important information

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Text structures

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The way in which an author presents the information in his/her story or article.Some of the most common text structures are:chronological order,problem and solution, cause and effect, compare and contrast

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Thesaurus

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Gives synonyms and sometimes antonyms for words

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Excerpt

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A passage taken from a book

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Exposition

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Characters, setting, and main situation are introduced

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Fact

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A statement that can be proven

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Flashback

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When a portion of the story goes back in time

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Glossary

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Gives the list of important vocabulary and their definitions used in a book

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor

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Inference

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Using your prior knowledge and evidence from the story to draw conclusions

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Main idea

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What a paragraph or passage is mostly about

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Mood

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The feeling created by a literary work or passage

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that imitate sounds

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Opinion

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A personal belief or personal judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

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Organized

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How the author puts together the events in the story or passage

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Outline

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Graphic organizer that orders events with a main idea and details

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Paraphrase

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Express the same message in different words

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Personification

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A figure of speech in which an object,animal, or idea is given human feelings,thoughts, or attitudes

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Tone

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The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters(ex. ,serious or humorous)

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Logical appeal

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In persuasion, ideas that appeal to the brain;facts, statistics,percentages,charts/graphs

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Emotional appeal

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In persuasion, ideas that appeal to the heart; personal stories...uses loaded language

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Loaded language

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Words that are full of emotion to create a feeling;used in persuasive writing

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Faulty reasoning

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Ideas that are presented in persuasive writing that doesn't match the claim;it does not follow

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Audience

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In persuasive writing ,who is the message for?

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Claim

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The message or idea that is being presented in persuasive writing

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Sequence

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A pattern of nonfiction text in which ideas are presented step-by-step

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Cause and effect

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A pattern of nonfiction text in which the relationship between an event and the reasons why the event occured are presented

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Fiction

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Writing that is not true

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Non-fiction

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Writing that is true

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Biography

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The story of a person's life as told by someone else

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Autobiography

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The story of a person's life that is told by that person himself/herself

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Memoir

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An emotional autobiographical story

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Myth/folktale

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A fictional story (usually with animals)that teaches a lesson

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Moral

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The lesson of a myth or folktale

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Drama

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A type of literature that is meant to be acted on a stage; A play

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Bias

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Basing a conclusion on personal opinion rather than facts

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Plot

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A series of events that present and resolve a problem;it tells a story

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Character

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A person in a story

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Protagonist

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The main character in a story

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Antagonist

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The opposition to the main character in a story; the enemy of the main character

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Man vs man

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One person is in conflict with another person

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Man vs self

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Internal conflict;a conflict within a character

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Man vs nature

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A person is in conflict with a blizzard,tornado,river,etc

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Falling action

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The result of the climax,leading to denouement

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Setting

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The time and place a story occurs

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Theme

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The author's message to the reader; the lesson the author wants the reader to understand

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Informative writing

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Writing that gives information to the reader:a textbook,directions,newspaper article

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Writing for Entertainment

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Writing that is for pure pleaure; storylike, narrative, drama

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Persuasive writing

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Writing with the intent to change the reader's mind

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Context clues

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Hints in the text that help a reader understand a difficult or unusual word(usually bold or underline)

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Dialogue

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The words that are spoken by the actors in a play

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Stage directions

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The words that give the actors instructions on what to do in a play

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Foreshadowing

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Events that help predict what will happen later in a story

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Script

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The written form of a play

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Cast of Characters

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Found in the beginning of a script; May contain brief background information on characters

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Free verse

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Does not have a rhyming pattern; does not rhyme