Reading STAAR Vocabulary _ inference skills

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Infer

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make a guess based on what you read

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What is true of factual questions?

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The answer is right there in the text

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What is true of think and seek questions?

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The answer is not in the passage. You have to infer.

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What can you infer about the following: The little boy looked sheepishly down at the ground. His mom clenched her teeth together. She couldn't believe what he had just done!

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He has eaten the pie she baked for dessert.

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The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic (persuade, inform, entertain)

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author's purpose

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The most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about.

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main idea

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a brief statement or account of the main points of something

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summary

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life lesson, meaning, or moral of a story or a poem

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theme

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The emotions that you (the reader) feel while you are reading.

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mood

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the way the author expresses his attitude through his writing

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tone